Acculturation - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Acculturation matters: risk perceptions of smoking among Bosnian refugees living in the United States.

29 Sep 2008 The relationship between acculturation and health behavior change is complex. Little research has focused on acculturation and perceptions of health-related risks. This study investigated acculturation and risk perceptions of heart attack and lung ... Read more...

Perceptions of Vietnamese fathers' acculturation levels, parenting styles, and mental health outcomes in Vietnamese American adolescent immigrants.

29 Sep 2008 Vietnamese adult and adolescent immigrants in the United States acculturate to the Western culture at different rates. MostVietnamese parents tend to use the authoritarian parenting method in which dictatorial approaches are enforced, possibly ... Read more...

Individual and area-based indicators of acculturation and the metabolic syndrome among low-income Mexican American women living in a border region.

15 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVES: We sought to examine the relationships between individual and area-based indicators of acculturation and metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk among a sample of Mexican American women living in the California-Baja California border region. ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Acculturation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Acculturation matters: risk perceptions of smoking among Bosnian refugees living in the United States. 29 Sep 2008
• Perceptions of Vietnamese fathers' acculturation levels, parenting styles, and mental health outcomes in Vietnamese American adolescent immigrants. 29 Sep 2008
• Physician advocacy essential for Canada's First Nations. 21 Sep 2008
• Personal and ecological contexts for understanding the health of immigrants. 15 Sep 2008
• Individual and area-based indicators of acculturation and the metabolic syndrome among low-income Mexican American women living in a border region. 15 Sep 2008
• Language spoken and differences in health status, access to care, and receipt of preventive services among US Hispanics. 15 Sep 2008
• Nativity and cigarette smoking among lower income blacks: results from the Healthy Directions Study. 30 Jul 2008
• Relations between trauma experiences and psychological, physical and neuroendocrine functioning among Somali refugees: mediating role of coping with acculturation stressors. 30 Jul 2008
• Assessing psychological stress among Arab migrant women in the City of Cologne/Germany using the Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) approach. 30 Jul 2008
• Child health promotion and protection among Mexican mothers. 30 Jul 2008
• The Latino diet in America: not your father's arroz con frijoles. 30 Jul 2008
• A systematic review of the relationship between acculturation and diet among Latinos in the United States: implications for future research. 30 Jul 2008
• Parental autonomy support and ethnic culture identification among second-generation immigrants. 30 Jul 2008
• Psychiatric distress among Asian and European American survivors of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. 30 Jul 2008
• Unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents: the glaring contrast between a legal and a psychological perspective. 19 Jul 2008
• Self-reported health status of vietnamese and non-Hispanic white older adults in california. 13 Jul 2008
• Smoking behaviors among immigrant Asian Americans: rules for smoke-free homes. 29 Jun 2008
• Prevalence, correlates, disability, and comorbidity of DSM-IV narcissistic personality disorder: results from the wave 2 national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions. 29 Jun 2008
• Shifting landscapes: immigrant women and postpartum depression. 29 Jun 2008
• Focus groups: examining a community-based group intervention for depressed Puerto Rican women. 29 Jun 2008

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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