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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Minority status"”.
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Maternal Perception of Child Body Weight and Physical Activity Behavior Patterns: Interactions with Gender and Ethnic Minority Status of Preschool Children
… between maternal perception of child weight status and reported physical activity and sedentary behavior levels amongst preschool-aged children. Reported child physical activity and sedentary behavior levels were not significantly different depending on maternal misperception. A significant …
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Minority Status Stress: factors that impact its effect on the psychological and academic functioning of African American students attending a predominantly white university
… perceived social support impact the effect of Minority Status Stress (perceived stressors attributed to being an ethnic minority) on the academic and psychological functioning of African American students at a predominantly white university. Eighty African American undergraduate and graduate …
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Stress, Social Support, And Psychological Well-Being In College Students Attending Majority And Minority Institutions
… is said to be the result of the added burden of minority status stressors. The current study examined stress levels in African-American college students attending majority (Predominantly White Institutions or PWIs) and minority (Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs) institutions. …
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"An Alien in a Christian World": Intolerance, Coping, and Negotiating Identity among Atheists in the United States
… an identity which involves labeling oneself as a minority, negotiating minority status, and dealing with discrimination and intolerance. This study also looks at atheist communities, which serve crucial functions for their members. By aligning with a group, atheists create a social space in which …
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The Predictive Value of Complex PTSD Symptoms on Resting High-Frequency Heart Rate Variability
… stress disorder [CPTSD] symptoms, racial-ethnic minority status, and age of onset of first traumatic exposure) and provided resting high-frequency heart rate variability (hfHRV) data, which served as a biomarker for the potential impact of trauma exposure on physiological domains. Correlational …
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Portraits of Resilience: Same-Sex Military Couples' Experience of Deployment
… challenges associated with sexual minority status, and learned resilience. Though couples experienced a host of unique challenges related to their minority status and restrictive policies, couples developed adaptive coping strategies that served to mediate the impact of distinctive …
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Turning To The Bottle For Answers: Identifying Racial Differences in Predictors of Risk Drinking Among College Women
… affect, parental history of alcohol problems and minority status. Analyses found that somatic PMS symptom severity score, age of first alcohol use, daily smoking, age of first alcohol use and non-minority status were related. Findings suggest that minority group membership was associated with low …
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The LGBTQ student experience of emergency remote learning
… learning as a result of their sexual or gender minority status, physical separation from the school and reduced access to the support systems that schools often provide through counselors, friends and LGBTQ youth groups. This study used queer phenomenology to investigate how LGBTQ minority …
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The role of teachers in same-/cross-ethnic friendship preferences in elementary school classrooms
… student grade, ethnicity, and numerical ethnic minority status in the classroom. The results revealed that, on average, European American and African American children’s preferences for same- over cross-ethnic friendships remained stable over the school year. Teacher emotional support was …
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Sexual Orientation Competence: Psychologists’ Perceived Competence and Relationships to Multicultural Competence, Training, Engagement, and Exposure to Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals
… variables: exposure to persons of sexual minority status, training experience in sexual minority populations, perceived multicultural competence, and engagement in sexual minority specialization and practice to the criterion variable perceived sexual orientation competence within United …
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Race, Class, and Health: Health Behavior and Hypertension in Black and White Americans
… framework for this study, the focus is on the minority status of blacks in the United States. In particular, the argument is made that both race and class affect health. Furthermore, the effect of the spatial context is considered.
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An Assessment of the Parent Orientation Program at the University of North Texas
… have met their needs, particularly by gender, minority status, educational background, or by geographic distance from the institution. This study seeks to determine the effectiveness of the parent orientation program at the University of North Texas to the parents who participate in this …
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The Effect of Racial Status and Other Core Characteristics on Collective Self-Esteem A Quantitative Test of Divergent Theories of Identity Valuation
… Appraisals tradition argue that members of minority groups experience identity devaluation and minority stress (Hacker 1992; Harris 1993; Meyer 1995; Tatum 1997; Hoff-Sommers 2000; McIntyre 2002) and come to value their identities less in empirical terms than do members of equivalent …
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Towards an understanding of mental disorders in urban areas
… affective psychoses are contradictory. Ethnic minority status also increases the risk of psychoses, independent of 'urbanicity', suggesting risk factors associated with migration or post-migratory experiences are also aetiologically relevant. It is unclear whether this risk is independent of …
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Referal Practices/Policies of Public School Officials and Juvenile Probation to Juvenile Court Schools
… school programs are of low income and/or minority status. When compared to the general school population, the number of these referred low income and/or minority students is disproportionately high. Since these numbers do not coincide with numbers of the general school population, the …
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Contextualizing LGBTQ Faculty Experiences: An Account Of Sexual Minority Perceptions
… probed how sexual orientation and sexual minority status impacted their overall job satisfaction. Through providing context for social interactions in a traditionally heteronormative environment, cultural and attributional behaviors associated with affecting LGBTQ faculty in higher …
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Transforming Words Into Action: Factors Predicting Social Justice Engagement Among Psychology Doctoral Students
… justice literature. Results indicated that LGB minority status, higher levels of social justice interest and higher levels of social justice self-efficacy predicted greater orientation towards political and social advocacy. Social justice self-efficacy was also found to predict greater …
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Campus Climate, Racial Threat, and the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian Americans on a College Campus Following Sensational Crimes
… so it addresses the more general question of minority stereotyping and strategies taken by minority groups to compensate for such stereotypes. Findings from this study suggest that the campus climate for Asian American undergraduates appears to be welcoming, and respondents do not report …
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Perceptions of crime changes, well-being, and personal safety during the COVID-19 pandemic
… by being an essential worker, gender, age, and minority status. Results found that stress was higher for essential workers during the first nine months of the pandemic. Overall crime was perceived to have remained the same, while child abuse, cybercrime, domestic violence, drug-related crime, …
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