Browsing by Subject "Acculturation"
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(2021-06-04)Eating disturbance is highly prevalent among college students and is associated with a wide range of detrimental outcomes. Previously, eating disturbance was often portrayed as a “White upper-middle-class condition.” ...
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(2011-02-22)The current study was designed to examine the influence of cultural orientation on alcohol involvement among Mexican-American adolescents. Also, this study assessed whether cultural orientation predicted positive and ...
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(2021-06-14)Acculturative stress is a type of stress related to adapting to a new culture that is often experienced by Chinese international students on U.S. college campuses. However, there is a lack of study about how they use ...
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(2010-01-14)This study was designed to remedy the current lack of information on the causes of depression among Chinese women in the United States. It is based on an integrated understanding of depression, anger, female gender ...
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(2021-07-07)In the 1960s, the term “model minority” was coined by sociologist William Petersen to describe Asian Americans as an incredibly successful ethnic group in the United States because of their strong work ethic, family values, ...
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(2012-02-14)Historically, Liberian immigrants to the United States tended to be wealthy, educated individuals who wanted their children to acquire a Western education. The thirteen-year Liberian Civil War resulted in a new wave of ...
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(2016-08-05)Even though the People’s Republic of China has instituted national policies to provide greater higher education access to Chinese ethnic minorities and facilitate greater maintenance of ethnic minority cultures, limited ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation presents a comprehensive literature review of the acculturation process and describes the following aspects: constructs, theoretical models, measurement instruments, limitation in research, and an emphasis ...
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(2012-10-19)The purpose of this study was to determine the role of acculturation in the food consumption patterns of low income Hispanic women living in Texas and enrolled in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program by testing ...
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(2012-07-16)The purpose of this current study was to determine the role of acculturation, ethnic identity, and religious fatalism regarding attitudes towards seeking psychological help among Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Americans. In ...