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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Immigrant adolescents"”.
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Contextualizing immigrant adolescents' high school outcomes by their school environments and friend groups.
… Adolescent to Adult Health and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in combination with conducting hierarchical linear modeling analyses, this dissertation looks at the effects of school environments and friend groups on immigrant adolescents' level of school attachment and GPA in high …
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Exploring risk-taking and health in immigrant adolescents to Canada: A unique focus on the “healthy immigrant effect”
The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) describes the phenomenon in which immigrants initially experience better health outcomes than the host population, followed by a gradual decline in health across time and generations. While the HIE has been widely documented among adults, less is known about how …
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The life stories of 1.5 generation Korean American immigrant adolescents: examining their English learning and social experiences in school
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Acculturation and its influence on the social relationships, identity, and sense of well-being in middle school immigrant adolescents : a descriptive single case study.
… and sense of well-being of newly arrived immigrant adolescents. Although there is literature that discusses acculturation, few studies explore how it influences Hispanic immigrant adolescents' social relationships with their peers and family, identity, and sense of well-being. Additional …
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Acculturation and Mental Health in Chinese Immigrant Youth
… social support on the mental health of Chinese immigrant adolescents. Study participants included 81 first generation Chinese immigrant adolescents. Mental health was operationalized using the BASC emotional symptoms index and somatization score. As hypothesized, acculturative stress and …
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Social Relationships and Immigrant Health: Structural and Temporal Perspectives
… extensive attention to the health outcomes of immigrants and the implications of their social relationships. Scholars have yet to fully appreciate, however, how immigrants' personal relationships are fundamentally shaped by the structural conditions that encompass their lived experiences, and …
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Relationship between familism and ego identity development of Puerto Rican and immigrant Puerto Rican adolescents
… level of education, familism, and, for the immigrant group, number of years living in the United States mainland help explain the variance in some of the statuses scores. Some of the variance in the achievement scores can be explained by the independent variables for immigrant male and …
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Acculturation-related stressors and Latino immigrant adolescent depressive symptoms: a multiple mediation analysis of stressors and resources by gender and immigrant generational status
… symptoms among first and second generation immigrant Latino adolescents in the United States, and to test a novel theoretical framework based on an integration of acculturative stress and stress process theories among Latino youth. The main research hypotheses and exploratory research …
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Hispanic immigrant students
… In the last 50 years the vast majority of immigrants have come from Latin America and Asia. Due to the large increase in immigration and high birth-rates among Latinos/as, the number of immigrant children in schools has also increased dramatically. In 2004 it was estimated that there were …
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Examining the Relationship between Bicultural Stress and Psychological Well-being among Korean Adolescents in Singapore: A Mixed Methods Study
… the acculturation experiences of Korean adolescents in Singapore by exploring the bicultural stress they experience and how they identify themselves as well as the moderation effect of ethnic identity on the relationship between bicultural stress and psychological well-being. This study …