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Ronald B. Cox; Hua Lin; Robert E. Larzelere; Juan Bao – Prevention Science, 2024
Reports of deportation can create a state of chronic fear in children living in mixed-status immigrant families over their own or a loved one's potential deportation. One indicator of health disparities among youth is elevated rates of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATOD). Yet little is known about the effects of fear of deportation (FOD)…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Hispanic American Students, Early Adolescents
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Gutowski, Ellen; White, Allison E.; Liang, Belle; Diamonti, Alfred-John; Berado, Danielle – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2018
The present study explored the influence of psychological stress on the development of purpose among youth of color living in urban, low-income communities. A qualitative approach based on grounded theory was used to understand how stress-related experiences influence the development of youth purpose in participants' own words. Findings revealed…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Social Support Groups, Minority Groups, Urban Youth
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Londhe, Rucha – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Culture serves as a guiding framework to parents while rearing their children. However, when parents immigrate from one culture to another, they have to negotiate the conflicting demands and values of the two cultures when making decisions about child rearing. The present study investigated various aspects of parenting demonstrated by…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Immigrants
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Ratzoni, G.; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1988
Examines 12-month period in 1983-1984 when large number of Ethiopian Jews emigrated to Israel under very stressful conditions. Notes that many immigrants were adolescents who left their families behind in Ethiopia. Focuses on nine adolescent immigrants who developed psychiatric disabilities severe enough to warrant hospitalization, describing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Jews
Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – 1987
The refugee experience--migrating against one's will--is a source of immense psychological stress. This paper therefore draws on empirical findings and theoretical discussions from the psychological, psychiatric, nursing, social work, sociological, and anthropological literature in order to identify the major stressors encountered in the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Biculturalism, Cultural Differences