Acculturation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Sorting out the competing effects of acculturation, immigrant stress, and social support on depression: a report on Korean women in California.

29 Sep 2009 This research identifies stressors that correlate with depression, focusing on acculturation, among female Korean immigrants in California. Telephone interviews were conducted with female adults of Korean descent (N = 592) from a probability sample ... Read more...

US acculturation, food intake, and obesity among Asian-Pacific hotel workers.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Both obesity and immigration continue to increase in the United States. Studies suggest that a transition in lifestyle patterns, such as food intake, may mediate the relationship between immigration and obesity. OBJECTIVE: We examine ... Read more...

An analysis of the association between parental acculturation and children's medication use.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We examined how Hispanic children, with stratification according to language to approximate acculturation, differed with respect to sociodemographic characteristics and medication use. We also examined how different factors were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Acculturation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Sorting out the competing effects of acculturation, immigrant stress, and social support on depression: a report on Korean women in California. 29 Sep 2009
• US acculturation, food intake, and obesity among Asian-Pacific hotel workers. 29 Sep 2009
• Navigating cultural competency: in preparation for an expected standard in 2010. 29 Sep 2009
• Cultural complexities in dietary assessment and treatment. 29 Sep 2009
• An analysis of the association between parental acculturation and children's medication use. 26 Sep 2009
• Acculturation and use of health care services by Turkish and Moroccan migrants: a cross-sectional population-based study. 8 Sep 2009
• [Working conditions overseas: "German physicians assume unnecessary risks" (interview by Dr. med. Thomas Meissner)] 8 Sep 2009
• Acculturation and gender: influence on healthy dietary outcomes for Latino adolescents in California. 30 Aug 2009
• Acculturation: a concept analysis for immigrant health. 30 Aug 2009
• Family and neighborhood fit or misfit and the adaptation of Mexican Americans. 30 Aug 2009
• Measuring cultural identity: validation of a modified Cortes, Rogler and Malgady Bicultural Scale in three ethnic groups in New York. 30 Aug 2009
• When race matters: racially stigmatized others and perceiving race as a biological construction affect biracial people's daily well-being. 30 Aug 2009
• Is an overseas dietetics career opportunity for you? 30 Aug 2009
• Decision involvement and receipt of mastectomy among racially and ethnically diverse breast cancer patients. 29 Aug 2009
• Do socioeconomic gradients in subclinical atherosclerosis vary according to acculturation level? Analyses of Mexican-Americans in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 4 Aug 2009
• The challenge of acculturation measures: what are we missing? A commentary on Thomson & Hoffman-Goetz. 3 Aug 2009
• Parental characteristics and the schooling progress of the children of immigrant and U.S.-born blacks. 30 Jul 2009
• The religiosity/spirituality of Latina breast cancer survivors and influence on health-related quality of life. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychosocial factors associated with weight control expectancies in treatment-seeking African American smokers. 30 Jul 2009
• The role of language in ethnic identity measurement: a multitrait-multimethod approach to construct validation. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Acculturation'

Definition: Process of cultural change in which one group or members of a group assimilate various cultural patterns from another.

Descriptor UI: D000069

Alternative terms: Acculturation; Assimilation, Cultural; Cultural Assimilation;

Tree Number: I01.076.201.450.050; I01.880.143.079;

History Note: 1963