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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Young Latinos Communicate With Friends in the Digital Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Presents survey findings on frequency of texting, calling on cell phones and landlines, posting updates on social networking sites, and e-mailing among Latinos ages 16 to 25 by gender, language, and nativity and compared with adults and non-Latino ...
Gretchen Livingston, Mark Hugo Lopez
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultivating Contextual Attributes in the Integration of Latin@ Educational Leadership [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Although the Latino population is growing rapidly in the United States, there is a disproportionate paucity of literature on the perspectives and challenges of Latino/a educational leaders.
Castillo, Yuleinys A, Maniss, Suzanne
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Mental health service use among Filipino American and Korean American young adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the heightened mental health challenges amid rising Anti‐Asian sentiment, Asian Americans have significantly underutilized mental health services, a trend that persisted even before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although considerable efforts have been made to understand how various factors are related to mental health service use in this ...
Michael Park   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived Family Support, Acculturation, and Life Satisfaction in Mexican American Youth: A Mixed-Methods Exploration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this article, the authors describe a mixed-methods study designed to explore perceived family support, acculturation, and life satisfaction among 266 Mexican American adolescents.
Edwards, Lisa, Lopez, Shane J.
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