Achievement Motivation Patterns Among Low-Income Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Negro Youth

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund V. Mech
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Anglo American

Achievement Motivation in Mexican-American Eighth Grade Students

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 971-978
Author(s):  
Velma D. Menchaca
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Mexican American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Eighth Grade Students ◽  
Anglo American

120 eighth grade students of two ethnic groups in South Texas, Mexican-American and Anglo-American, were administered an instrument to assess their achievement motivation and a measure of socioeconomic status. The former was designed to examine whether the students were motivated to achieve success or to avoid failure. Analysis indicated no significant differences between the two ethnic groups in achievement motivation, yet on socioeconomic status, differences were noted. Mexican-American students report the same motivation to succeed and to avoid failure as do Ango-American students.

Measuring Attitudes and Health Beliefs Among Mexican Americans With Diabetes

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri Schwab ◽  
Julie Meyer ◽  
Rosa Merrell
Keyword(s):  
Health Beliefs ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Health Belief ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Patients With Diabetes ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Belief Model

Adherence to the treatment regimen for patients with diabetes is of major concern to healthcare practitioners, particularly when dealing with the high-risk, low-income, Mexican-American population. Assessing the attitudes and beliefs of this group is vital for planning effective and realistic intervention strategies. Therefore, we designed a culturally sensitive instrument to measure health beliefs and attitudes of low-income Mexican Americans with diabetes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used as a basis for this study because it is well accepted as a predictor of health-related behaviors. However, we found that the HBM was not an effective tool for assessing the health beliefs or attitudes of this patient population even after rigorous efforts to operationalize the HBM and after conducting extensive statistical analyses. Only two of the five subscales of the traditional HBM, barriers and benefits, were reliable. Scales to measure acculturation and fatalism were added to increase the cultural sensitivity of the tool. These added components were found to be an important variable in interpreting the results for low-income Mexican-American patients.

scholarly journals Economic Stress and Cortisol Among Postpartum Low-Income Mexican American Women: Buffering Influence of Family Support

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon L. Jewell ◽  
Linda J. Luecken ◽  
Jenna Gress-Smith ◽  
Keith A. Crnic ◽  
Nancy A. Gonzales
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Economic Stress ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals Serum Persistent Organic Pollutants and Duration of Lactation among Mexican-American Women

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosana H. Weldon ◽  
Monique Webster ◽  
Kim G. Harley ◽  
Asa Bradman ◽  
Laura Fenster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Persistent Organic Pollutants ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals ◽  
Breastfeeding Duration ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
Endocrine Disrupting ◽  
Lactation Duration ◽  
Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Background. Research suggests that estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemicals interfere with lactation.Objectives. (1) to determine if estrogenic persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are associated with shortened lactation duration; (2) to determine whether previous breastfeeding history biases associations.Methods and Results. We measured selected organochlorines and polychlorinated biphenyls (p,p′-DDE,p,p′-DDT,o,p′-DDT,β-hexachlorocyclohexane, hexachlorobenzene, and PCBs 44, 49, 52, 118, 138, 153, and 180) in serum from 366 low-income, Mexican-American pregnant women living in an agricultural region of California and assessed breastfeeding duration by questionnaires. We found no association between DDE, DDT, or estrogenic POPs with shortened lactation duration, but rather associations for two potentially estrogenic POPs with lengthened lactation duration arose (HR [95% CI]: 0.6 [0.4, 0.8] forp,p′-DDE & 0.8 [0.6, 1.0] for PCB 52). Associations between antiestrogenic POPs (PCBs 138 and 180) and shortened lactation duration were attributed to a lactation history bias.Conclusion. Estrogenic POPs were not associated with shortened lactation duration, but may be associated with longer lactation duration.

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