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The Mexican-American Extended Family As An Emotional Support System
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This article is published in Human Organization.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 328 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extended family & Nuclear family.read more
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Hispanic Familism and Acculturation: What Changes and What Doesn't?
Fabio Sabogal,Gerardo Marin,Regina Otero-Sabogal,Barbara VanOss Marín,Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable +4 more
TL;DR: This paper studied the effects of acculturation on attitudinal familism in 452 Hispanics compared to 227 white non-Hispanics, and found that despite differences in the national origin of Hispanics, Mexican-, Central-and Cuban-Americans reported similar attitudes toward the family indicating that family is a core characteristic in the Hispanic culture.
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Preliminary development of a scale of social support: Studies on college students
TL;DR: The Inventory of Socially Supportive Behaviors (ISSB) as mentioned in this paper is a 40-item scale, developed in which respondents report the frequency with which they were the recipients of supportive actions.
Towards a Culturally Competent System of Care: A Monograph on Effective Services for Minority Children Who Are Severely Emotionally Disturbed.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a philosophical framework and practical ideas for improving service delivery to children of color who are severely emotionally disturbed, focusing on four sociocultural groups (African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans).
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Acculturative stress, depression, and suicidal ideation among immigrant and second-generation Latino adolescents.
Joseph D. Hovey,Cheryl A. King +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that some acculturating Latino adolescents experience high levels of accULTurative stress and these adolescents are also "at risk" for experiencing critical levels of depression and suicidal ideation.
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Formation and Transformation of Funds of Knowledge Among U.S.-Mexican Households
TL;DR: The authors argue that these funds are not only a key to understanding the cultural systems in which U.S.-Mexican children emerge, but are also important and useful assets in the classroom.
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Perception of mental illness in a Mexican-American community
Marvin Karno,Robert B. Edgerton +1 more
TL;DR: Mexican-Americans are a unique people in California characterized by a chronically depressed socioeconomic status marked by a low educational level with a high degree of functional illiteracy, crowded and deteriorated housing, a high incidence of communicable disease, limited employment opportunities, and limited political power until the recent period of rapid growth of political strength.
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Curanderismo in the metropolis. The diminished role of folk psychiatry among Los Angeles Mexican-Americans.
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Social Factors in Mental Disorders in Texas
TL;DR: The majority of psychiatric surveys in the United States have been conducted in only two regions, and primarily in urban communities as discussed by the authors, and only two such studies were on as large a scale as an entire state and both were confined to the same New England region.