Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences articles from November 1997

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences archives from November 1997

Predictors of attitudes toward illegal Latino immigrants.
November 1, 1997... According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, approximately 1.6 million illegal immigrants reside in California, and 125,000 more enter the state each year (California State General Election Ballot Pamphlet, 1994). The growing...

Determinants of Hispanic poverty in the course of the transition to adulthood.
November 1, 1997... More than a quarter of all Hispanic families are poor, in comparison to 8.2% of White families (Enchautegui, 1995). Yet, despite the extensive data on the disproportionately high rates of poverty among Latinos, there is little empirical...

Explaining variation in income between Hispanic and white female-headed households in Washington.
November 1, 1997... Concern about poverty and the accompanying low incomes of female-headed families has grown in recent years. This is especially so because the increasing number of children living in female-headed families and the low incomes of these...

Psychosocial correlates of sexual assault among Mexican American and White non-Hispanic adolescent families.
November 1, 1997... Research has linked sexual abuse to a number of problems in adolescence and adulthood. Sexual victimization generally has been associated with psychological issues ranging from low self-esteem, self-destructive behaviors, and social...

Students' reflections on the social, political, and ideological role of English in Puerto Rico.
November 1, 1997... Relations between Puerto Rico and the United States have been troubled ever since Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. There are several reasons for this, ranging from the clash of...

Self-orientation and depression level among Dominicans in the United States.
November 1, 1997... Depression is one of the most frequently diagnosed mental disorders in the United States (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Maxmen and Ward (1995) reported that depression affects 15% of all Americans at some time during their lives,...

Biculturalism, differentness, loneliness, and alienation in Hispanic college students.
November 1, 1997... Loneliness and alienation have been described as negative subjective affects associated with social isolation (cf. Sundberg, 1988). Loneliness and alienation are often linked with estrangement from interpersonal sources of meaning...

Acculturation and planning for college among youth of Mexican descent.
November 1, 1997... The Latino community in the United States is undereducated relative to the total population (Perez & Salazar, 1993). In fact, Latino youth have one of the lowest rates of college attendance of all minority groups in the United States, second...

Mexican American female adolescent self-esteem: the effect of body image exercise behavior, and body fatness.
November 1, 1997... Self-esteem is the evaluative component of self-image, the positive or negative manner in which a person judges herself or himself (Marshall, 1989). The degree to which one evaluates oneself as competent, belonging, and worthwhile determines...

Everyday instruction: a comparison of Mexican American and Anglo mothers and their preschool children.
November 1, 1997... During the past three decades, researchers have been greatly interested in the impact of children's early experiences on cognitive development and learning. A major objective of this research was to understand the processes that led to low...