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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Hispanic Americans"”.
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The impact of television viewing on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans
… contact on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans. White American undergraduate students (N = 231) at a small private university in the western United States completed an anonymous self-administered group questionnaire. Regression analysis revealed that the Hispanic negative …
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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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Fatalism, Religious Attendance, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Engagement in Health Behaviors Among Hispanic Americans low in Acculturation and Income: Testing the Reserve Capacity Model
… minority groups and Whites in the United States, Hispanics seemingly have a relative advantage in one particular health outcome: all-cause mortality. This advantage is most pronounced among the least acculturated Hispanics. Therefore, it is plausible that this phenomenon, known as the Hispanic …
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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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Gender differences in SAT scores : analysis by race and socioeconomic level
… 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 using federal guidelines for free and reduced school …
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Discrimination and health: how being Hispanic can make you sick
… related quality of life. A sample of 236 Hispanic Americans completed measures of perceived discrimination, optimism, social support, and symptoms of trait anxiety. Path analysis was used to examine relationships between these variables and the outcome variables of physical and mental …
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Social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minorities
This thesis examines social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minority groups by investigating how whites feel toward African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Three questions guide the study: (1) What is the relative order of whites' social distances to major …
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Hispanic Engineer’s Involvement in Corporate Diversity Networks
… and find support. ERGs geared towards Hispanic employees are often advertised as not only a means to connect with others and provide a sense of belonging but are also often promoted as avenues towards successful professional development and growth for underrepresented employees. This …
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Contextual Relationship Model Across Four Cultures
… of 550 individuals from Micronesian (N=131), Hispanic-Americans (N=139), Non-LDS Caucasians (N=140), and LDS-Caucasians (N=140) filled out an extensive relationship assessment survey (RELATE). Descriptive and diagnostic data will be provided for each of the items and constructs in the data for …
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Domestic Violence in Cultural Context: Male Honor, Female Fidelity and Loyalty
… In Study 1, students from honor cultures (Hispanic-Americans and southern Anglo-Americans) rated a woman in an abusive relationship more positively (compared to northern Anglo-Americans) if she stayed with the man; in contrast, Northern Anglo-Americans (a culture where honor traditions are …
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Privacy Concerns About Genetic Testing: Does Ethnicity Matter?
… have low awareness of DTC-GTs e.g., African Americans and Hispanic Americans (Salloum et. al, 2018) but it’s not clear if this also impacts their privacy concerns. The role of ethnicity is important due to historical reasons e.g., the case of Henrietta Lacks (Rao, 2016), medical …
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The Role of Acculturation in the Health Belief Model for Mexican-Americans with Type II Diabetes
… worldwide. Ethnicity plays a large role with Hispanic-Americans having one of the highest prevalence rates. Diabetes is a complicated disease that requires significant lifestyle modifications. The health belief model (HBM) has been investigated as a theory to explain behavior change. However, …
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Use of Preventive Screening for Cervical Cancer among Low-income Patients in a Safety-net Healthcare Network
… to have had a Pap smear, followed by African Americans, Hispanic immigrants, and finally, by Hispanic Americans. The persistence of the race/ethnicity/immigration status effect, even when the effects of other independent/control variables are taken into account, may be explained by several …
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Positional Cloning of Adiposity Genes in Ethnic Minorities of the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Family Study
… obesity’s pathogenicity. Furthermore, African Americans and Hispanic Americans are at a disproportionately higher risk for obesity compared to European Americans. Despite the severity of the “obesity epidemic,” little is known about the genetic components of polygenic obesity. Moreover, a …
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The Relations Among Cultural Values, Ethnicity, And Job Choice Trade-off Preferences
… striving), (b) ethnicity (European-American, Hispanic-American), and (c) their job choice trade-off preferences for organizational prestige over pay using Thurstone's (1927, 1931) law of comparative judgment method. Study 1 served as a pilot of the procedure and measures. Based on the results …
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The Effects of Combat Exposure on Post-Deployment Coping Deficits in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans
… The study included 822 Caucasians, 896 African Americans, 41 Hispanic Americans, 24 Asian Americans, and 8 Native Americans. Each of the participants completed measures related to mental, emotional, social and occupational functioning, and provided information regarding personal and familial …
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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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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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An Analysis of Cultural Content in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Textbooks
… groups: African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American. The frequency count of student learning activities indicated that African-Americans were the most often represented cultural groups appearing seventeen times in student learning activities. Hispanic-Americans …
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Social Support and Viral Reactivation in US and Foreign-Born Mexican Americans
Social support may explain a part of the Hispanic Paradox, the persistent pattern of mortality outcomes for low-SES Hispanic Americans that more closely compare to higher-SES Caucasians than lower-SES African Americans. Curiously, Hispanics, especially those born outside the United States, have …
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