Reports on the topics covered during a summer training institute for Hispanic parents residing in an inner-city Houston, Texas, school district to promote their involvement in their children's education. Training sessions covered language, culture, self-identity, and parental involvement to help students succeed in school. (11 references) (CB)

Reviews literature regarding the intellectual and linguistic characteristics of Hispanic bilinguals, explores the understanding and proper use of psychometric tests with Hispanic children, and presents specific recommendations for the psychoeducational assessment of Puerto Rican bilingual children that involve the development and use of bilingual…

Administered a questionnaire to 677 Latino and white late adolescents (grades 11, 12 and post-high school) examining both risk factors and protective factors related to frequency and/or quantity of cigarette, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, and hard drug use. Risk and protection accounted for different amounts of variance across the various types of…

Among 1980-82 Florida birth cohorts, infant mortality rates were higher for Puerto Ricans and Mexicans than for Cubans and other Hispanics. Controlling for birth weight and prenatal care had little impact on differentials, but interactions were found among marital status, maternal age, and Hispanic group identity. Contains 47 references. (SV)

Reports on Project Read, an intervention designed to enhance attitudes of Hispanic and African-American high school females toward reading, school, and literacy in general through a series of 12 weekly lunch-time presentations by successful minority female role models. (SR)

Reviews empirical studies addressing acculturation across a variety of psychosocial variables. Two methodological weaknesses in the studies were (1) lack of a satisfactory scale to assess acculturation; and (2) excessive reliance on self-reports for information perceived as "personal" to Hispanics. Presents recommendations to improve…

Educators who do not speak Spanish must learn to communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking parents. Administrators should ensure that some staff member is fluent in both written and oral Spanish ensure that essential written materials are printed correctly, invest in translation devices, learn the language, demonstrate interest in parent's…

Adaption of Hispanic (n=51) and non-Hispanic (n=195) white families to having a member with mental retardation was examined using surveys and interviews. Hispanic families differed in socioeconomic status (lower), age of person with mental retardation (younger), religious values (stronger), and in their perceived burden of caring for the mentally…

Reviews the history of immigration from the Dominican Republic to the United States, 1945-92, and depicts characteristics of U.S. Dominicans, including age, race and racial attitudes, income, occupation, and education. Discusses the lack of institutional support for Dominican immigrants. Provides recommendations for meeting the mental health and…

Compares Hispanic adult children of alcoholics with Hispanic adult children of nonalcoholics on Diagnostic Inventory of Personality and Symptoms. Finds significantly higher scores in Somatoform Disorders and Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Conditions scales among children of alcoholics. Women displayed higher scores than men on Affective…

Among 1,208 Puerto Rican women in Boston and Hartford responsible for adolescents, the age-adjusted prevalence of current smokers was 29.4%, higher than rates for all adult women. Nonsmoking status was associated with higher educational attainment, presence of a spouse or partner, and regular church attendance. (SV)

A longitudinal survey, conducted 1979-88, indicates that young adults leaving nonmetro areas followed complex migration patterns normally involving multiple moves, including 15% who returned from cities to counties of origin. Rural outmigration rates and patterns differed by race and ethnicity, income, and geographic proximity to urban areas.…

Guidelines for the design, conduct, and critique of nursing research with African-American and Hispanic populations examine the following: framework, sample composition, race/ethnicity of investigators, measurement instruments, method of analysis and aggregation, and discussion of implications for racial/ethnic groups. (SK)

Used data from over 2,000 respondents to explore racial, ethnic, and gender differences in desire to marry. African Americans were significantly less desiring of marriage than whites; racial difference among men was significantly larger than difference among women. Compared to nonhispanic whites of same gender, Hispanic men were more likely,…

Researchers planning to use a Spanish translation of the Revised Behavior Problem Checklist with a primarily Puerto Rican population found that it had been designed for Cuban speakers of the language and, therefore, decided to develop a new translation. Suggests the need to be sensitive to the differences in vocabulary among Hispanic subcultures.…