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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Acculturative Stress"”.
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Acculturative stress appraisal and acculturation attitudes
… contact (Redfield, Linton, & Herskovits, 1936). Acculturative stress describes a multitude of psychological or social problems that are often encountered by individuals experiencing acculturation (Berry, 1994). This article reviews the empirical literature on acculturation and factors influencing …
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Acculturative Stress, Depression, & Anxiety Among Arab Americans
… Africa to the United States, experience a lot of stress as a result of balancing varying cultures, known as acculturative stress. Due to the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of Arabs in Americans, as well as the taboo that exists in the Arab culture regarding poor mental health and …
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Sibling Suicide in Indo-American Families: Acculturation, Acculturative Stress, and Family Relationships
… families. Relationships between acculturation, acculturative stress, and family relationships in completed suicides of Indo-American youth were examined. Snowball sampling procedures were used to find six adult sibling survivors of suicide as participants. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews …
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The Relationship Between Print Literacy, Acculturation And Acculturative Stress Among Mexican Immigrant Women
… BETWEEN PRINT LITERACY, ACCULTURATION, AND ACCULTURATIVE STRESS AMONG MEXICAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN</p> <p>by</p> <p>ALEXANDER MODESTO CINTRON</p> <p>March 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Navaz Peshotan Bhavnagri</p> <p>Major: Curriculum and Instruction</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>The purpose …
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Understanding Acculturative Stress In Post-Graduate, International Veterinary Students: A Mixed-Methods Study
… adapting to the new location and their stressors during their time as veterinary students. With the number of veterinarian suicides rising and the focus on veterinary student mental wellness increasing, gaining a deeper understanding of their experience as students is essential for the …
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Acculturative Stress, Coping, and Approaches to Working with Refugee Immigrants in the United States
… factors involves acculturation and related stress identified as acculturative stress. This exploratory study identified and examined psychosocial factors which contribute to acculturative stress across different groups of refugee immigrants in the United States. Eighteen interviews conducted …
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The relationship between religious support and acculturative stress in second-generation Asian Indian American Christians
… the United States (U.S.), experience significant acculturative stress when adapting to a Western culture (Shim & Schwartz. 2008; U.S. Census. 2007). Acculturative stress is magnified in second-generation Asian Americans given the pressure by mainstream society to integrate and by the native …
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A Jungian Based Study for Diagnosing Acculturative Stress Within the Hispainc Immigrant and Refugee Population
… that Hispanic immigrants and refugees experience acculturative stress. The specific stressors causing acculturative stress in this population was unknown. Also unknown was whether or not acculturative stress affected self-esteem as reflected in visual constructs. An attempt to gain some initial …
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Exploring mediators and moderators in the relationship of acculturative stress and internalizing symptoms in Hispanic youth
… anxiety and depression. Literature suggests that acculturative stress, or the difficulty experienced when adjusting to a new culture, is related to depression and anxiety in Hispanic youth. However, the mechanisms by which acculturative stress relates to anxiety and depression in this population …
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Acculturation Level, Generational Status and Gender: Their Role in Acculturative Stress in Young Adolescent Mexican Americans
… level, generational status, and gender with acculturative stress. Acculturation level was determined by the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II (ARSMA-II) and acculturative stress was determined by the Societal, Attitudinal, Familial and Environmental Acculturative Stress …
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Black Caribbeans’ Post Migration Wellbeing-Are Religiosity and Social Support Enough to Protect Against Acculturative Stress?
… population may require addressing the role of acculturative stress within the acculturation/immigration processes, and how this specific form of stress engenders either health or dysfunction. While (some of) these relationships have been studied, and validated in the African American community, …
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Associations Among Internalization of Western Media Appearance Ideals, Acculturative Stress, and Body Image Problems in Asian American Men
Past studies revealed that stress emerging from acculturation and the influence of Western media body ideals have a great influence on body dissatisfaction as well as on disordered eating. However, that existing literature was based largely on women and on some Hispanic men. Thus, the present study …
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Soy El Primero: First-Generation Latino/a College Students' Experiences of Acculturative Stress and Coping Response in College
… Latino/a students’ experiences of acculturative stress on the college campus. This phenomenological research study explored the acculturative stress experienced by first-generation Latino/a students attending PWIs, as well as their subsequent coping responses to this stress. Study …
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Acculturation and psychological distress among first generation Asian Americans : the roles of acculturative stress and social-cultural resources
… have a beneficial impact on mental health, and acculturative stress such as the level of family conflict and perceived racial discrimination would be expected to be risk factors (Kawachi & Berkman, 2001; Wolff & Agree, 2004; Gong et al., 2003; Kerr-Correa, Igami, Hiroce, & Tucchi, 2007). The …
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Acculturative stress and obesity : the moderating role of emotional eating in a community sample of Latino/a adolescents.
Acculturating to American culture is often a stressful experience for Latino/a adolescents and has been associated with negative health outcomes and obesity. Previous research suggests that maladaptive coping increases the association between stressful acculturative experiences and negative health …
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