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Book The Role of Acculturation Optimism and Relative Deprivation in Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans

Download or read book The Role of Acculturation Optimism and Relative Deprivation in Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans written by Patricia Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental health of individuals of Mexican origin varies as a function of generational status. Studies have found that Mexican Americans tend to have more depressive symptoms than Mexican immigrants. The goal of this study was to identify possible explanations for the reported generational differences in depression among individuals of Mexican origin by examining acculturation, gender, generational status, and relative deprivation. Participants were153 women and men of Mexican origin who completed a questionnaire packet assessing demographic background, the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans (ARSMA-11), the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-11), relative deprivation and the Revised Generalized Expectancy for Success Scale (GESS-R). Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine whether gender, generational status, acculturation level were significant predictors of depressive symptoms and optimism level. Findings suggest that low acculturation and being female were significant predictors of depressive symptoms. Relative deprivation was not a significant predictor of depressive symptoms among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans.

Book THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT S ACCULTURATION AND CHILDREN S DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN OF LOW SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS

Download or read book THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT S ACCULTURATION AND CHILDREN S DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN OF LOW SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS written by Marisela Escárcega and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the equivocal results on the role that acculturation plays in the depressive symptoms among children and adolescents, and the limited research on Mexican American youth in general, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of parent's acculturation and their children's depressive symptoms among Mexican-American of low socio-economic status. This study followed Rodriguez's (2007) methodological recommendations to use a strong methodological design, and use an orthogonal acculturation measurement. The study selected a stratified random sample of 198 students, selecting equal numbers of males and females, and equal subjects from grades 3rd through 5th. Subjects were selected from three elementary schools located in a low socio-economic school district in the Southwestern United States. Parents of the selected students were asked to complete a demographic form, the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II (Cuellar, Arnold, and Maldonado, 1995), and the Internalizing subscales of the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18; Achenbach and Rescorla, 2001). The study found no significant relationship between parent's acculturation and children's depressive symptoms. The study was limited by high attrition among the sample, a frequent characteristic of low socio-economic populations.

Book Mexican Immigrant Women

Download or read book Mexican Immigrant Women written by V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship of Level of Acculturation and Marital Satisfaction to Depression Among Mexican American Women

Download or read book The Relationship of Level of Acculturation and Marital Satisfaction to Depression Among Mexican American Women written by Nydia Medina and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Do Latino Social Nets Work

Download or read book Do Latino Social Nets Work written by Lourdes A. Baezconde-Garbanati and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Influence of Cultural Adaptation on Depressive Symptoms Among Young Hispanic Immigrants

Download or read book The Influence of Cultural Adaptation on Depressive Symptoms Among Young Hispanic Immigrants written by Jeremiah W. Jaggers and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how cultural adaptation and family cohesion impact depressive symptoms in Hispanic immigrants that migrated to the U.S. by the age of 17. Using the National Latino and Asian American Study, a recursive regression was conducted on a hypothesized model demonstrating the relationship among the study variables: acculturation, acculturative stress, subjective social status, discrimination, ethnic social identity, dissonant acculturation, family cohesion and depressive symptoms. Psychosocial contextual variables are also included in the analysis and include gender, age, years in the U.S., education, income, and ethnicity. Results revealed two important themes in the data. The first is the importance of family in the adaptation process. As hypothesized, dissonant acculturation leads to the development of depressive symptoms. Additional findings concluded that family cohesion moderated the effect of dissonant acculturation. The second theme revealed in the data was the risk posed by acculturative stress in the adaptation process. Acculturative stress contributes directly to dissonant acculturation and to depressive symptoms.

Book A Stress Model of Acculturation Depressive Symptoms and Self Esteem Among Mexican American Undergraduates

Download or read book A Stress Model of Acculturation Depressive Symptoms and Self Esteem Among Mexican American Undergraduates written by Belizario Delgado Magaña and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Depression Acculturation and Relationship Power in Mexican Immigrant Women

Download or read book Depression Acculturation and Relationship Power in Mexican Immigrant Women written by Gabriela I. Helfgott and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largely undetected and untreated health conditions affecting the Latino population in the United States is depression. Although the onset of depression can be influenced by a variety of factors that differ among individuals, Latinos in the United States are subject to certain cultural-specific social and environmental stresses that may increase their risk. As Latinos become more acculturated into the American mainstream, they may be less likely to experience these stressors. Latina women have been found to have considerably higher rates of depression symptoms than their male counterparts; traditional values of the culture may be creating a sociocultural backdrop of gender inequality that could serve as a precursor to mental disorders. There is a gap in the research in relation to how depression rates in Latinas may be affected by the process of acculturation in the context of gender-based roles and power. This study is an exploration of how acculturation and relationship power affect the presence or absence of depression symptoms in Mexican immigrant women. A sample of 35 women from Benton County, Oregon, was interviewed using a questionnaire comprised of the revised Center for Epidemiologic Studies depression scale (CESD-R), the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (SASH) and the Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRPS). The purpose of the survey was to generate hypotheses for further research into factors that need to be taken into consideration when designing mental health programs for Latinos in the United States. Forty percent (40%) of the women in this study were classified as having depression symptoms according to their CESD-R scores, and a majority of the women were classified a having a low acculturation level. Also, the results indicate that most of the women in this study had medium to high levels of relationship power. The analysis did not yield a strong association between depression and acculturation scores or between depression and relationship power scores. There was a strong correlation found between acculturation and relationship power. It is hoped that this study will call attention to the mental health needs of Hispanic women and that the information gathered will aid in creating successful and culturally-relevant prevention and treatment services.

Book The Mediating Effect of Acculturation on the Effectiveness of Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Mexican Americans Suffering from Depression

Download or read book The Mediating Effect of Acculturation on the Effectiveness of Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Mexican Americans Suffering from Depression written by Griselda Villalobos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research study is to explore the role of culture in how Mexican Americans respond to mental health treatment. Cultural background is likely to affect not only the meaning attributed to mental illness, but also help-seeking and responses to treatment. Creating a match between treatment modalities and people's cultural backgrounds requires consideration of a person's cultural context. Cultural characteristics can vary not only across cultural groups, but even within groups can change across time. This study used a quasi-experimental pretest/posttest comparison group design to analyze culturally adapted cognitive behavioral therapy (CACBT) with Mexican Americans diagnosed with depression. A purposive nonprobability sample of 81 adult Mexican Americans diagnosed with depression was recruited from a mental health agency in El Paso, Texas. Forty-eight participants were assigned to a treatment group, which received CACBT, and 33 to a comparison group, which received treatment as usual. Depression was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Participant acculturation level was measured using the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II. Independent and paired t tests were used to examine the effectiveness of the culturally adapted intervention. OLS regression analyses examined whether acculturation mediated the relationship between the culturally adapted intervention and depression. No direct effect was found between CACBT and depression relative to treatment as usual. The results showed that CACBT and treatment as usual both decreased depression scores. However, the interaction effect between acculturation and group assignment was significantly related to posttest depression scores. Thus, the effect of CACBT varied according to acculturation level. This study demonstrates the role that acculturation plays in how Mexican Americans respond to mental health treatment. An implication for social work practice is the need to use evidence-based practices that have been tested for their cultural appropriateness with Mexican Americans.

Book Culture s Role in Immigrant Health

Download or read book Culture s Role in Immigrant Health written by Courtney Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican immigrants tend to be in better health upon arrival to the United States than their U.S.-born counterparts, despite living through the conditions that forced them to migrate initially and enduring what is often a traumatic migration and resettlement process. However, as they carry out their lives in the U.S., even as standard of living improves and they gain access to public health care, studies show that health outcomes often decline. For Mexican immigrant women, this is particularly true with regard to type 2 diabetes and depressive symptoms. Culture is often implicated in this process, and acculturation is the primary analytical framework used to study what happens as individuals transition from the sociocultural context of their upbringing to that of a host society. Typically measured as age at arrival, length of time living in the U.S., and English language proficiency, it is unclear what these proxy variables measure in terms of culture and why they may be implicated in health outcomes. Further, this research tends to obscure the socio-political conditions and structural constraints that shape illness for vulnerable populations. Focusing on Mexican immigrant women living in Alabama, this study uses cultural consonance theory and methodology to better understand how culture and culture change act on the body to produce predictable discrepancies in physiological functioning. Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals, in their own beliefs and behaviors, live up to the prototypes for those beliefs and behaviors that are encoded in cultural models. I examine the link between cultural consonance and two health outcomes -- percentage of Hemoglobin variant A1c (an indicator of type 2 diabetes risk) and depressive symptoms -- as well as the extent to which consonance buffers the effects of acculturation on these two outcomes. Instead of locating individuals along a continuum of culture, I consider how well respondents live up to the cultural standards defined in the new sociocultural environment and examine how this affects well-being. The results, and the ethnographic insight in which they are couched, offer a more tenable explanation for how the acculturative experience operates on the body.

Book The Relationship of Nativity Social Support and Depression to the Home Enviornment i e Environment Among Mexican American Women

Download or read book The Relationship of Nativity Social Support and Depression to the Home Enviornment i e Environment Among Mexican American Women written by Todd B. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: