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Author: Allison Janine Niebes-Davis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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College is a time marked by a significant level of stress, especially for Latina students. One of the changes that often occurs during an individual's time in college involves one's gender role beliefs, shifting from traditional gender role beliefs to more liberal beliefs. Though a great deal of research has been done to show that college attendance plays an important role in the liberalization of gender role beliefs, little is known about this relationship for Latina students. This is particularly problematic as Latina students face unique challenges on the college campus, including issues relating to acculturation. Because the Latino cultural norms often dictate women to be dependent on their family, a move towards nontraditionalism can create family conflict and intragroup marginalization, both of which can contribute to psychosocial distress in ethnic minority groups. As Latina students face unique educational challenges, and may develop family conflicts, a supportive academic environment may serve to buffer some negative effects. This study conceptualizes this supportive environment as "academic families" which foster family like relationships in the college setting. This study examined the relationships between gender role beliefs, family conflict, family intragroup marginalization, academic family support, and psychosocial distress among a sample of 170 Latina college students to get a clearer picture of how changing gender roles impact this population. A statistically significant relationship was found between gender role beliefs and family intragroup marginalization, as well as between gender role beliefs and family conflict, though different from initially hypothesized. A statistically significant relationship was also found between family conflict and psychosocial distress, though academic family support was not shown to moderate this relationship. Implications for researchers and educators are also discussed.
Author: Allison Janine Niebes-Davis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
College is a time marked by a significant level of stress, especially for Latina students. One of the changes that often occurs during an individual's time in college involves one's gender role beliefs, shifting from traditional gender role beliefs to more liberal beliefs. Though a great deal of research has been done to show that college attendance plays an important role in the liberalization of gender role beliefs, little is known about this relationship for Latina students. This is particularly problematic as Latina students face unique challenges on the college campus, including issues relating to acculturation. Because the Latino cultural norms often dictate women to be dependent on their family, a move towards nontraditionalism can create family conflict and intragroup marginalization, both of which can contribute to psychosocial distress in ethnic minority groups. As Latina students face unique educational challenges, and may develop family conflicts, a supportive academic environment may serve to buffer some negative effects. This study conceptualizes this supportive environment as "academic families" which foster family like relationships in the college setting. This study examined the relationships between gender role beliefs, family conflict, family intragroup marginalization, academic family support, and psychosocial distress among a sample of 170 Latina college students to get a clearer picture of how changing gender roles impact this population. A statistically significant relationship was found between gender role beliefs and family intragroup marginalization, as well as between gender role beliefs and family conflict, though different from initially hypothesized. A statistically significant relationship was also found between family conflict and psychosocial distress, though academic family support was not shown to moderate this relationship. Implications for researchers and educators are also discussed.
Author: Victor B. Sáenz Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000977277 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 192
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Latino males are effectively vanishing from the American higher education pipeline. Even as the number of Latinas/os attending college has actually increased steadily over the last few decades, the proportional representation of Latino males continues to slide relative to their Latina female counterparts. The question of why Latino males are losing ground in accessing higher education—relative to their peers—is an important and complex one, and it lies at the heart of this book. There are several broad themes highlighted, catalogued along with the four dimensions of policy, theory, research, and practice. The contributors to this book present new research on factors that inhibit or promote Latino success in both four-year institutions and community colleges in order to inform both policy and practice. They explore the social-cultural factors, peer dynamics, and labor force demands that may be perpetuating the growing gender gap, and consider what lessons can be learned from research on the success of Latinas. This book also closely examines key practices that enable first generation Latino male undergraduates to succeed which may seem counterintuitive to institutional expectations and preconceived notions of student behavior. Using narrative data, the book also explores the role of family in persistence; outlines how Latino men conceptualize fulfilling expectations, negotiate the emasculization of the educational process, and how they confront racialization in the pursuit of a higher education; uncovers attitudes to help-seeking that are detrimental to their success: and analyzes how those who succeed and progress in college apply their social capital – whether aspirational, navigational, social, linguistic, familial, or resistant.While uncovering the lack of awareness at all levels of our colleges and universities about the depth and severity of the challenges facing Latino males, this book provides the foundation for rethinking policy; challenges leaders to institutionalize male-focused programs and services; and presents data to inform needed changes in practice for outreach and retention.
Author: Arlene Sagastume Publisher: ISBN: 9781085628631 Category : Dissertations, Academic Languages : en Pages : 87
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The topic of gender cause strain for Latina women who are receiving conflicting messages from many sources including, but not limited to: parents, peers, and the media concerning expectations for gender-related roles (Shea et al., 2012). For Latinas making the transition to graduate school, gender-related stress may exacerbate feelings doubts about their accomplishments and manifest in what has been called impostor syndrome. The present study examines the extent to which gender role conflicts are related to impostor phenomenon and graduate stress among Latina graduate students. Participants include Latina young adults currently enrolled in graduate programs who completed an online survey. It was hypothesized that impostor phenomenon will mediate the relationship between gender role conflicts, acculturation conflicts with parents and graduate stress. Our study found that acculturation conflicts with parents, and gender role conflicts are significant predictors of graduate stress. Impostor phenomenon was also a significant of graduate student stress and gender role conflicts are significant predictors of the impostor phenomenon. However, impostor phenomenon was not a mediator for either model. This work will allow researchers to better comprehend the intersectional experiences of bicultural Latina women in Los Angeles as they navigate cultural and gender-related issues while making career choices and continuing their education.
Author: Patricia R. Cerda-Lizarraga Publisher: ISBN: 9781339295008 Category : Languages : en Pages : 276
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First generation Latina/o college students are at a higher risk for not completing their college degrees when compared to other ethnic minorities due to added barriers and challenges of being the first to go to college. Researchers reported that poor college adjustment is one of the factors contributing to the lack of college completion among Latina/o college students. A few studies exist on the role that family support has on the college adjustment of Latina/o students and these yielded mixed findings. The central role of the family among Latina/o students and their support during the college adjustment period merits attention. Consequently, a qualitative multiple case study is ideal for exploring what family support consists of and the role it has on the transition and college adjustment of Latina/o first generation college students. Furthermore, the psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of family support and their influence on college adjustment were examined within the psychosociocultural framework.
Author: Marta J Gonzalez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 262
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The current study examined the relationship between sociocultural values (e.g., marianismo, familism, ethnic identity) and female gender-role orientation (e.g., femininity/masculinity) in gender-role conflict amongst Latina college students (N = 260) in higher education at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Western United States. The results indicated that Mexican American Latina College students who endorsed gender role attitudes of marianismo and adhered to the cultural value of familism experienced higher levels of gender-role conflict. Particularly, individuals who endorsed more marianismo experienced conflict with restrictive affectionate behavior (i.e., discomfort expressing feelings to another person) and individuals who adhered to familism experienced more conflict with success, power, and competition. Findings also indicated that ethnic identity was significantly and positively correlated to familism and gender-role orientation indicating that having a salient identification with the ethnic group can influence gender-role orientation and adherence to the cultural value of familism. Correspondingly, individuals who endorsed masculinity experienced higher levels of conflict with success, power, and competition and those who endorsed femininity experienced less conflict in expressing emotions and affection for others. Implications of the research and recommendations for future research are discussed.
Author: Nadia Nicole Cano Publisher: ISBN: Category : Academic achievement Languages : en Pages : 222
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Previous research has noted the importance of investigating contextual factors and their effect on non-persistence (Gloria, 1997; Gloria & Ho, 2003; Gloria & Robinson Kurpius, 2001) but has not investigated their effects on academic achievement. The current study provides support for including psychosocialcultural (PSC) factors and the PSC framework (Gloria & Rodriguez, 2000) in research with Mexican American college students and specifically in the area of understanding the many factors that affect GPA. The current study examined the relationship between the variables of ethnic identity, college course self-efficacy, social support of family and friends, cultural congruity and university environment and the degree to which they predict GPA. Participants of the study consisted of 100 Mexican American undergraduate college students attending a Hispanic-serving university in the southwest. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire and the University Environment Scale (UES; Gloria & Robinson, 1996), College Self-Efficacy Inventory (CSEI: Solberg, O'Brien, Kennel, & Davis, 1993), Perceived Social Support from Family and Friends (PSSFa & PSSFr: Procidano & Heller, 1983), Ethnic identity Scale (EIS; Umaña-Taylor, Yazedjian & Bamaca-Gomez, 2004) and Cultural Congruity Scale (CCS: Gloria & Robinson Kurpius, 1996) online. The hierarchical regression model used to predict GPA was statistically significant, with 19% of the variance in GPA accounted for (R2 = .19, F = 2.71, p = .01). In the first step of the hierarchical regression, college self-efficacy was a significant predictor, accounting for 5% of the variance in GPA (R2 = .05, F = 5.45, p = .02). Exploratory analyses showed correlations between GPA and CSEI course scale (r = .23, p
Author: Allison Janine Niebes-Davis
Author: Allison Janine Niebes-Davis
Author: Victor B. Sáenz
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Author: Alma D. Treviño Garza
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Author: Mabel E. Quiñones
Author: Arlene Sagastume
Author: Patricia R. Cerda-Lizarraga
Author: Marta J Gonzalez
Author: Nadia Nicole Cano