An investigation of Latino and non-Latino college students sought to examine the ways in which perceived intergenerational conflicts with parents are related acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial functioning. Participants reported extent they experienced two types parents: values/expectations acculturation such as their parents’ perception that “too American”. First- second-generation Latinos experiencing more than third-generation European Americans or African Americans. Regression...

AbstractGiven the important contextual function of family dynamics and traditional gender roles in Latino cultures, parental influences on substance use among adolescents may differ across genders. This study examined associations between factors (parental monitoring, parent–child communication, cohesion, familism) marijuana 1,369 Southern California. Students from seven schools completed surveys 9th 11th grades. Longitudinal hierarchical linear regression analyses evaluated grade lifetime...

Objectives: Discrimination has been associated with adverse psychological and physical health outcomes, but few studies have examined the effects of discrimination on Hispanic adolescents. This study assessed relation perceived depressive symptoms drug use. Covariates included immigrant generation status (GS). A second objective was to examine potentially moderating effect neighborhoods' ethnic composition as suggested by Mair et al. Design: Secondary data analyses a longitudinal survey...

This study examined the factor structure and validity of Acculturation Gap Conflicts Inventory (AGCI), a new instrument developed to measure types recurring conflicts that young people experience as part parent-child acculturation gap. Participants included 283 Hispanic adults who completed AGCI existing measures acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial, academic adjustment. Principal axis analysis revealed three factors with good internal consistency: Autonomy Conflicts, over...

Despite an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse population in the United States (U.S.), growing evidence indicates that minorities are underrepresented national forest visitation. Many reasons for continuing underrepresentation have been examined, involving research reaching back multiple decades. In current study, a random sample of residents (n = 1977) from four large metropolitan statistical areas California was involved telephone survey about Analysis revealed pattern inequities...

E-cigarettes were initially introduced as a less harmful alternative to combustible cigarettes, but marketing efforts may now be exceeding these claims by associating e-cigarettes with words related healthy foods. These associations could mislead people assume vaping is practice. Tweets from January March 2017 obtained the Twitter Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) assess content about linked food words. classified into one of nine categories along their source (marketer vs....

Variables from the Health Tracking Household Survey 2007 were mapped to fit "integrative model" of patient-doctor communication proposed by Ashton et al. (2003) describe how patterns between patients and doctors influence patients' health outcomes. Patients' perceptions their physician's attentiveness examined determine if perceived mediated relationship physicians' recommendations (to diet exercise) health. Ethnic group differences related these variables explored. Overall, patient...

This study examined intragroup xenophobic attitudes, ethnic identity, and substance use (N = 905). Drawing on cognitive dissonance theory, we hypothesized that attitudes among Latinx individuals would be associated with higher levels of (SU) in early adulthood identity increase the strength association. We found 10th grade, were respondents lower a longer family history United States, less stress. In longitudinal analysis, SU emerging was highest males, those reporting stress States. There...

Three survey experiments examined the effect of cues describing a target’s socioeconomic status (SES) on participants’ judgements after target transgressed social norm punctuality. Hypotheses were formulated based Fiske’s (2018) stereotype content model. In Study 1 (N = 243) participants randomly assigned to read vignette gender ambiguous student as low-SES (versus high-SES) arriving late an exam and then judged tardy student. Judges showed more leniency when was described than high-SES. 2...