Parental Beliefs and Their Relation to the Parental Practices of Immigrant Chinese Americans and European Americans

2010 ◽  
pp. 37-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna A. Padmawidjaja ◽  
Ruth K. Chao
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Parental Beliefs ◽  
Parental Practices ◽  
European Americans

Is It Cultural Context or Cultural Value? Unpackaging Cultural Influences on Stigma Toward Mental Illness and Barrier to Help-Seeking

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1022-1031
Author(s):  
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen ◽  
Winnie W. S. Mak ◽  
Ben C. P. Lam
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Face Concern ◽  
The Mean

There have been growing interests in sampling underrepresented populations to test whether psychological processes are universal. The present cross-sectional study examined cultural influences on stigma toward mental illness and perceived barrier to help-seeking among Hong Kong Chinese, Chinese Americans, and European Americans ( N = 555 university students). Significant cultural differences were found in the mean levels, with the two Chinese groups reporting higher levels of stigma toward mental illness and perceived barrier to help-seeking than European Americans, and these cultural differences were accounted for by face concern. In addition, the strengths of paths from face concern to stigma toward mental illness and perceived barrier to help-seeking were equivalent across the three cultural groups. These findings tease apart the source of cultural influences and underscore the importance of comparing cultural differences both at the mean level and the structural level, but more importantly, to unpackage the observed differences by testing the mediating role of cultural values.

The Relationship between Family Dynamics and Career Interests among Chinese Americans and European Americans

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick T. L. Leong ◽  
Erika Ming-Chu Kao ◽  
Szu-Hui Lee
Keyword(s):  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
European Americans ◽  
The Relationship

Autonomic, subjective, and expressive responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese Americans and European Americans.

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne L. Tsai ◽  
Robert W. Levenson ◽  
Laura L. Carstensen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Americans ◽  
European Americans

Abstract MP057: Associations of CD4+ Memory and Naïve T Lymphocytes and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Circulation ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 125 (suppl_10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nels C Olson ◽  
Nancy S Jenny ◽  
Sally A Huber ◽  
Richard A Kronmal ◽  
Bruce M Psaty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
African Americans ◽  
T Lymphocytes ◽  
Subclinical Atherosclerosis ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Agatston Score ◽  
Memory Cells ◽  
Ethnic Study ◽  
European Americans ◽  
H Pylori

Background: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease involving both innate and adaptive immune responses, characterized by the accumulation of T lymphocytes throughout the atherosclerotic plaque. Therefore, we hypothesized that increased CD4+ memory cells and decreased CD4+ naïve cells would be associated with atherosclerosis. To date, no multi-ethnic population-based studies have examined this question. Methods: Peripheral blood memory and naive subpopulations were measured by flow cytometry and defined by the markers CD4+CD45RO+ and CD4+CD45RA+, respectively. Data were analyzed as a proportion of CD4+ cells. Associations were explored with demographic and cardiovascular disease-related variables, and markers of infection, inflammation and subclinical atherosclerosis in a random subset (n=914 participants, composed of European Americans (n=397), Chinese Americans (n=96), African Americans (n=187) and Hispanics (n=234); mean age 66 years) of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Agatston score, a measure of coronary calcification, was evaluated by cardiac computed tomography (CT) scan; serologies representing past exposure to pathogens were measured in serum by immunoassays. CD4+ cell indices were measured at Exam 4 (2005-2007); cardiovascular disease variables were obtained at the nearest previous exam; some measures, such as serologies, were available only at baseline (2000-2002). Results: Mean levels of circulating naïve, but not memory, CD4+ T cells were higher in woman than men (30.0% and 26.3%, respectively; P<0.0001) and negatively associated with age (P<0.0001). European Americans (EAs) had higher levels of naïve cells compared with African Americans and Hispanics (30.7%, 26.0% and 25.0%, respectively) and lower levels of memory cells compared with the same groups (50.7%, 55.7% and 58.0%, respectively; P<0.05); Chinese Americans were similar to EAs. Adjusting for age, gender and race/ethnicity, CD4+ naïve cells were inversely associated with past exposure to cytomegalovirus (CMV), Hepatitis A and H. Pylori (P<0.001), while memory cells were positively associated with CMV and H. Pylori (P<0.01). Using standardized linear regression models, CD4+ naïve cells were inversely associated with BMI (β= -1.62 ± 0.48), the inflammatory markers C-reactive protein (CRP) (β= -1.21 ± 0.48) and IL-6 (β= -1.79 ± 0.48) and with a positive Agatston score (β= -1.53 ± 0.65) (P<0.05); memory cells were positively associated with these same variables, after adjusting for age, gender and ethnicity. Conclusion: Differences in CD4+ T lymphocytes, including increased populations of memory cells and decreased populations of naïve cells, are associated with atherosclerosis as estimated by Agatston scores. These findings suggest that excess immune activation, as reflected by these differences, may contribute to atherosclerotic calcification.

scholarly journals Parental practices and beliefs on motor development in the first year of life

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcilene Maria Gomes ◽  
Rayane Fonseca Ribeiro ◽  
Bernat Vinolas Prat ◽  
Lívia de Castro Magalhães ◽  
Rosane Luzia de Souza Morais
Keyword(s):  
Motor Development ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Parental Beliefs ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Year ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Parental Practices ◽  
First Year Of Life

Abstract Introduction: In the child’s first year of life, motor development is critical for the other areas of child development. Beliefs and parenting practices influence the parents’ care and encouragement of their children, reflecting in their motor development; however, the Brazilian literature on this subject is scarce. Objective: to characterize the parental practices and beliefs associated with motor development in the first year of life; and to verify if practices and beliefs are interrelated. Methods: Two questionnaires were developed and applied, one about parenting practices and the other about parental beliefs on motor development in the first year life, to 27 caregivers of children between 12 and 24 months of age, who participated in an aquatic stimulation program. The agreement between practices and beliefs was verified by a graphical method, based on the transformation of ordinal scores to an interval scale using Rasch analysis. Results: The participants had higher levels of education and economic status. They reported a variety of practices focused on the motor development of their children, such as family interaction through playing, toy offers, lap time and free movement space. Conclusion: Most of the practices were based on parental beliefs, for some activities, however, beliefs and practices diverged, demonstrating the complexity inherent to the formation of parental beliefs.

scholarly journals ‘Flip-flop’ and mergers-in-progress

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAUREN HALL-LEW
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Flip Flop ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Historical Pattern ◽  
Recent Sample

During a merger-in-progress, occasionally one or two speakers will exhibit an unusual phonological pattern reminiscent of flip-flop (Labov et al. 1972). In such cases, the merging vowels appear to move past the point of coalescence in at least one phonetic dimension; difference is maintained but the vowel quality is opposite to the historical pattern on one or both dimensions. Flip-flop between the cot and caught vowels occurs for two speakers in a recent sample from San Francisco, California. The community shows robust change in progress toward a lower and fronter caught vowel nucleus, and no change in apparent time for cot. Further analysis shows that this is leading to a change in apparent time toward merger, and that the rate of vowel convergence is stronger among Chinese Americans than European Americans. The two speakers who produce flip-flop are seen to represent a key transitional generation with respect to the ethnic identity of the neighborhood, where flip-flop may be but one linguistic consequence of a lifetime of active negotiation between conflicting local meanings. The analysis suggests that ethnographic detail and attention to individual outliers allows for more comprehensive models of the range of phenomena associated with vowel mergers.

Resist aging or embrace it? Consequences for emotional adjustment among older Chinese-Americans and European-Americans

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara L. Sims ◽  
Jeanne L. Tsai ◽  
Ewart A. C. Thomas ◽  
Clara Park ◽  
Janie Hong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Older Chinese ◽  
Older Chinese Americans
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