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Acculturation and interrelationships between problem and health-promoting behaviors among Latino adolescents.

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In this paper, the effects of acculturation on a healthy lifestyle including problem behaviors (substance use and sex acts) and health-promoting behaviors (e.g., seat belt use, vitamin intake, hours of sleep per night) among Latino adolescents were examined.
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This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2001-01-01. It has received 166 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acculturation.

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Should "acculturation" be a variable in health research? A critical review of research on US Hispanics.

TL;DR: It is concluded that acculturation as a variable in health research may be based more on ethnic stereotyping than on objective representations of cultural difference.
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Acculturation Stress, Social Support, and Self-Rated Health Among Latinos in California

TL;DR: It is indicated that physical health is negatively associated with acculturation stressors and positively associated with social support; discrimination is only associated with poorer physical health among those for whom social support is lacking.
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Validity of Self-rated Health among Latino(a)s

TL;DR: While poor SRH was significantly associated with short-term mortality among the least acculturated, this association did not persist beyond 2-year mortality risk and health researchers wishing to use SRH to assess the physical health of multiethnic populations should at least control for levels of acculturation among respondents.
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Stress, Coping, and Health: A Comparison of Mexican Immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and Non-Hispanic Whites

TL;DR: Mexican immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and non-Hispanic white Americans all face different stressors, and stress-coping strategies may vary for each group as well, which may account for part of the Hispanic health paradox.
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Immigration and health.

TL;DR: The results suggested that, although recent research has furthered the understanding of immigration and health, the multiple health effects of the various social and cultural processes immigrants undergo are still not clearly understood.
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Problem Behavior and Psychosocial Development: A Longitudinal Study of Youth

TL;DR: The second phase of a long-term program of research on problem behavior as mentioned in this paper is the 2nd phase of the longitudinal study of problem behavior in adolescents and youths in American society in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which represents a logical continuation of long term interest in problem behavior and recognition that what was going on among youth and in the student movement can be viewed from a problem-behavior perspective.
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Research with Hispanic Populations

TL;DR: In this paper, issues in identifying Hispanics Enhancing Research Participation Development and Adaptation of Instruments Translation of Data Collection Instruments Potential Problems in Interpreting Data and their Role in Data Extraction
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Attitudes toward Family Obligations among American Adolescents with Asian, Latin American, and European Backgrounds

TL;DR: This article examined the attitudes toward family obligations among over 800 American tenth and twelfth grade students from Filipino, Chinese, Mexican, Central and South American, and European backgrounds, and found that Asian and Latin American adolescents possessed stronger values and greater expectations regarding their duty to assist, respect, and support their families than their peers with European backgrounds.
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Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 1995.

TL;DR: YRBSS data are being used nationwide by health and education officials to improve national, state, and local policies and programs designed to reduce risks associated with the leading causes of mortality and morbidity.
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The natural history of cigarette smoking from adolescence to adulthood: demographic predictors of continuity and change.

TL;DR: The findings support the importance of prevention campaigns aimed at adolescent smoking and also suggest that those with lower educational attainment or with a family history of smoking are at heightened risk.
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