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Acculturation of Armenian immigrants
… successes Armenian immigrants faced during the acculturation process, I researched the plight of recent Armenian immigrants adjustment to life in the United States. The qualitative study I conducted consisted of 20 open-ended interviews of Armenian immigrants who have lived in the United States …
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The acculturation gap: Investigating the relationship between inter-partner acculturation discrepancy and parenting quality
… have been neglected, including the impact of acculturation on parenting negotiation. In particular, the acculturation gap describes differences in acculturation and enculturation levels between family members. The acculturation-gap-distress model postulates that when members within a family …
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Subcultural Acculturation: A Dialectic approach to consumer acculturation of second generation British Pakistani Men
… factors that shape these formations. The role in acculturation of subcultures within the host country and the distinctions in the culture of origin are under-theorized. In this dissertation I aim to address this gap in the literature by looking at the various ‘home’ and ‘host’ cultures, and I seek …
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A dynamic approach to acculturation: the influence of cultural priming method on acculturation among Asians
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Acculturative stress appraisal and acculturation attitudes
Part One : The term acculturation describes an array of cultural changes that occur when culturally different groups come into continuous, first hand contact (Redfield, Linton, & Herskovits, 1936). Acculturative stress describes a multitude of psychological or social problems that are often …
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PHILOSOPHIES OF COLOUR: GENDER AND ACCULTURATION
My hypothesis is that 'Colour' as idea acts as a dynamic in the production of meaning and as such is part of what Le Doeuff (1991: 46-49) argues are deeply held epistemes that structure and govern our ways of thinking. I have dealt with the difficulties attendant on the analysis of a phenomenon as …
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Acculturation in marriage institutions in India.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Conceptualizing Islamic Acculturation in Pre-Colonial Punjab
… is to conceptualize the manner in which Islamic acculturation took place in the Punjab. To date, there has been little scholarly attention on Muslims in this region. Scholarship on the religious history of the region has focused exclusively on the Sikh communities. This study will not attempt an …
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Shifting personal brandscapes: young sojourners’ consumer acculturation
This thesis explores additional acculturation agents and forces for young sojourners. In particular, this research focuses on how individual sojourners’ consumer-brand relationships and personal brandscapes shift as result of temporary mobility. In addition, the impacts of the individual’s sojourn …
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Flexible Acculturation: On Taiwanese Relocations to China
The data used in the dissertation includes in-depth interviews, governmental documents, and media reports. In 2003 and 2005, I conducted fifty-one interviews of businesspeople and their family members in Taiwan and in China. Since 2002, I have also collected documents of many social institutions, …
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Acculturation and oral health in Mexican women
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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The acculturation of Barbadian agriculture workers in Canada
The central problem of this dissertation is the acculturation of Barbadian agriculture laborers who seasonally work in Canada. Several years ago, the author became aware of the squalid conditions in which Barbadian migrants worked. As he formed his opinion of Canada's rural slums or field ghettos …
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Acculturation and disability in Mexican American older adults
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine acculturation and disability in Mexican American older adults living independently in the southwestern United States. Design: A prospective cohort study (1993-2005). Setting: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California. Participants: …
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Acculturation, Social Acceptance, And Adjustment Of Early Adolescents
A majority of research regarding disruptive behavior disorders in youth has focused primarily upon Caucasian children and adolescents. As a result, more investigation of the unique characteristics of youth from ethnically diverse backgrounds, particularly those from Hispanic American and African …
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Family Acculturation and Asthma Outcomes in Latino Children
… However, studies exploring the role of acculturation on such outcomes are limited. Thus, the goal of this research was to conduct a secondary analysis of the Child Questionnaire from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2007 and 2009 cross-sectional data to explore the …
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Acculturation and Cardiovascular Behaviors Among Adult Asian-Americans
… Researchers have highlighted the role of acculturation in predicting such behaviors among immigrants, though similar studies among Asian-American subgroups are lacking. This study examines the putative relationship between acculturation and aforementioned cardiovascular behaviors among six …
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Psychometrically Valid Relationships between Acculturation and Neuropsychological Factors
… aim of this study was to ascertain significant acculturation predictors influencing neuropsychological performance in ethnic minorities, particularly verbally mediated tasks which were known to be more susceptible to discrepancies in acculturation level were examined (Razani et al., 2007). …
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Clothing acculturation history of Korean immigrants: 1903-1950
Clothing acculturation is defined as the "changes within a individual in clothing as well as cultural attitudes, values, and behaviors as a result of continuous firsthand contact between the cultural group to which he or she belongs and another cultural group". The Purpose of this research is to …
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