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Item Brazilian immigrant women : the relationship of marianismo and acculturative stress to acculturation types(2012-05) Bessa, Luana Barbossa; Borich, Gary D.; Cokley, KevinThe proposed study will investigate how individuals of different acculturation types vary in their levels of acculturative stress and marianismo. First-generation Brazilian immigrant females will complete a demographic questionnaire, as well as measures of acculturation, marianismo, and acculturative stress. Two 1-way ANOVA analyses and one 1-way ANCOVA analysis will be conducted in order to explore the relationship between these variables. It is proposed that Brazilian immigrant women’s levels of acculturative stress and marianismo will vary by acculturation type. It is further proposed that measuring adherance to traditional gender roles as varying by acculturation type rather than level will yield a more nuanced understanding of this relationship by not confounding integrated and marginalized individuals. Implications and limitations of the study’s potential findings will be discussed. Lastly, a program evaluation perspective will be presented to further explicate the implications of the current study for mental health outcomes and the provision of mental health services to Brazilian immigrant women.Item Language brokering among Latino middle school students : relations with academic achievement, self-efficacy, and acculturative stress(2010-05) Tedford, Sara Louise; Suizzo, Marie-Anne; Carlson, Cindy I.; Keith, Timothy Z.; Kim, Su Yeong; Valencia, Richard R.Child language brokers frequently translate in adult-level situations. Research has suggested that through translating, brokers may develop advanced language, cognitive, and social skills (De Ment, Buriel, and Villanueva, 2005; McQuillan and Tse, 1995), and these may lead to greater academic achievement and self-efficacy (Buriel, Perez, De Ment, Chavez,and Moran, 1998). Additionally, language brokers have been found to increase in biculturalism as they translate for people of different cultures (Acoach and Webb, 2004; Buriel et al., 1998). Brokers might experience reduced acculturative stress, for which biculturalism has been found to be a protective factor (Bacallao and Smokowski, 2005). Despite its possible benefits, brokering has been associated with negative emotions and behavioral problems for some children (Chao, 2006; Weisskirch and Alva, 2002). The mixed results of language brokering studies may partially be related to the age of participants, with translating appearing to be a more positive experience for older adolescents (Orellana and Reynolds, 2008). The purpose of this study was to test relations among language brokering, academic achievement, academic self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, and acculturative stress. I proposed and tested if language brokering was associated with more positive outcomes. In addition, I tested if older brokers had more positive outcomes than younger brokers. Participants included 207 Latino middle school students, aged 10 to 14 years, who completed self-report surveys. Measures included a background demographics questionnaire and scales for language brokering, academic self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, and acculturative stress. Achievement was measured with grades from school records. Results were non-significant for the relation of language brokering with achievement and social self-efficacy when controlling for other predictor variables. In contrast to expectations, translating for more people was associated with decreased academic self-efficacy and greater acculturative stress. Further analysis revealed that language brokering for parents and grandparents was associated with greater acculturative stress, while translating for other people was not. Although translating was associated with more acculturative stress, and older children reported less acculturative stress, age was not found to moderate the relation of language brokering and acculturative stress. Limitations, implications, and suggestions for future directions in language brokering research and clinical work are presented.Item Psychosocial influences of acculturation and acculturative stress on leptin, adiponectin, and gestational diabetes in Mexican American women during pregnancy(2013-12) Muñoz, Silvia Esquivel; Kintner, EileenThe purpose of this biobehavioral study was to explore relationships between psychosocial stressors of acculturation, acculturative stress, and metabolic markers of leptin and adiponectin in Mexican American women with and without gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). A case control design was used for this secondary analysis which included a sample of 38 pregnant women with GDM and 38 healthy controls without GDM, who were matched on age and BMI status. Subjects completed two surveys—the Multidimensional Acculturation Scale II (MASII) and the Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Inventory (MASI)—which measured acculturation and acculturative stress. Descriptive statistics, Pearson r correlations, and independent sample t-tests were used to analyze the data. The results from this study indicated that significant relationships do exist between some of the variables of interest; however, there were no overall significant differences found between women with and without gestational diabetes. These mixed results may be an indicator of a need to further explore these concepts.