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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Hispanic American"”.
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Understanding the politics of Hispanic American women: Attitudes and behaviors of an emerging elite
… about the political attitudes and behaviors of Hispanic women in the United States. A survey with questions taken from the National Election Study was completed by 101 Hispanic women and 106 Anglo women at Texas Woman's University. The questionnaire examined demographics, political activity, …
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Direct and indirect influences of school learning on Hispanic-American eighth grade students' academic achievement
… quantity of instruction, and homework on Hispanic-American eighth grade students' academic achievement, while controlling for important background variables (family background, student's English proficiency, and gender). Few researchers have examined both direct and indirect effects of …
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Andean Indigenous Expression: A Textual and Cultural Study of Hispanic-American and Quichua Poetry in Ecuador
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:41:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009097.pdf: 15073121 bytes, checksum: 9628aeb3e4e620277e256154f36f10ea (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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A Love-Hate Story : Perception of Discrimination of Hispanic-American Women in Finland An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This study explores perceptions of discrimination and the participants' understandings of their experiences, giving voice to their concerns and the emotions elicited by those concerns. Discrimination and its pervasive nature and negative consequences are well researched. Several studies support the …
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Motivating Factors for Hispanic American Volunteers: A Phenomenological Study of Non-Profit Environmental Advocacy Organizations in Southern California
Every year, millions of Americans volunteer their time, estimated to be worth over one hundred billion dollars in free labor. Volunteering is essential for most non-profit organizations in the United States because they lack the revenue to afford to pay for this necessary labor. Statistics show …
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The Kinetic Family Drawing as a Measure of Minuchin's Structural Family Concepts Among Hispanic American Families With Substance-Abusing and Nonsubstance-Abusing Adolescents
… new cultural-sensitive tests for assessing the Hispanic population in the United States that will take into account their cultural competence in the psychological evaluation practice. The purpose of this study was to explore the suitability of the Kinetic Family Drawings as a measure of …
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A Cultural Consideration: Eliminating the Barriers in Order to Effectively Communicate Crises
… aimed at gaining a better understanding of the Hispanic American culture in an effort to evaluate how they view and receive messages sent from the government. The purpose of this study was to further the conversation that messages should be designed with careful thought in order to resonate with …
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A Comparison of Mall Shopping Behavior Between Hispanic-Americans and Anglo-Americans
… buying power, and geographic concentration of Hispanic-Americans in the United States is causing marketers and retailers to carefully examine this market segment. Through a better understanding of Hispanic-American consumers, marketers and retailers will be more capable of meeting their wants …
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Appearance-Related Commentary and Body Image in Women
… to Western culture in African-, European-, and Hispanic Americans; and (2) negative appearance-related commentary and acculturation to Western culture as moderators of the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder psychopathology. Participants included 345 undergraduate women …
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A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Achievement in Physical Science
… level, and ethnicity. In 2013 and in 2014, white American students significantly outperformed four other ethnic groups, Asian American, African American, Hispanic American, and Multi-Racial Americans, in face-to-face classes. However, in online classes these significant differences in student …
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Gender differences in SAT scores : analysis by race and socioeconomic level
… studied using four racial groupings (African American, Asian American, Caucasian American, and Hispanic American) and two socioeconomic groupings (average-to-high income and average-low income) of students. All differences were tested at the .05 level. Socioeconomic status was determined by …
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Sibling Death in Childhood: An Evaluation of the Literature Regarding Inclusion of Minority Cultures, 1990–2002
… children in the United States includes African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American children whose siblings have died in childhood.</p> <p>A literature search identifies 58 articles, published between 1990 and 2002, concerning children under age 19 living in the United States whose …
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Use of Omega-3 Fatty Acids to Reduce the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Type 2 Hispanic Diabetics in Northeast Tennessee.
… lower cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. The Hispanic American population is at an increased risk for CVD. Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) in fish oil have been found to reduce risk of CVD. Subjects were randomly divided into two …
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African American/Latina High School Girls’ Preoccupation with Concepts of Personal Beauty: The Impact on Self-Worth and Academic Performance
… purpose of this study was to examine African American and Latina high school girls’ understanding of how their self-worth and academic performance may be impacted by the amount of time used to achieve a desired physical appearance. This descriptive, qualitative study used a Participatory …
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Acculturation, Social Acceptance, And Adjustment Of Early Adolescents
… diverse backgrounds, particularly those from Hispanic American and African American backgrounds, is needed (Balls Organista, Organista, & Kurasaki, 2003). This study investigated the relationships between several characteristics (e.g., ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, social acceptance, …
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Culture and E-Commerce: Culture Based Preferences for Interface Information Design
… dimension affects the type of information Anglo-American and Hispanic-American people prefer for purchasing tasks in a computer-based environment. The findings of this study suggest that there is no difference between the cultures on preference for information. Nonetheless, there are cultural …
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The Politics of Self-Representation
… narrative, humour and specifically play with Hispanic American themes and aesthetics. This commentary focuses on four of my films made in the last ten years: Chica Pop (2010), Loin, Encore Plus Loin (Further, Even Further Away) (2016), La Puta, La Santa y La Viuda (The Whore, the Saint and the …
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THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND PATERNAL DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND CHILDREN’S SOCIO-EMOTIONAL OUTCOMES VIA PATERNAL PARENTING: A BAYESIAN APPROACH
… The sample consisted of 3,045 African American, European American and Hispanic American fathers and their young children. Families were randomly assigned to a treatment and a control group. Analyses employed Bayesian multi-group path analysis. Results indicate that economic hardship was …
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The employment consequences of secondary occupational and academic courses for minorities and females
… represented in the study were African-American and Hispanic-American high school graduates from the 1980 sophomore cohort of the High School and Beyond, Fourth Follow-up. While previous research has purported to show that secondary vocational education has short-term economic benefit …
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