Felt Obligation Towards Parents in Mexican-American and Anglo-American Young Adults

Freeberg, Andrew L.; Stein, Catherine H.

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“…For example, research has shown that Mexican Americans value "simpatía" more strongly than Anglo-Americans do (Marín & Marín, 1991). Furthermore, Mexican Americans tend to be more collectivist than European Americans (Freeberg & Stein, 1996). Why then do Americans and bilinguals using English score higher in Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness than Mexicans and bilinguals using Spanish?…”

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Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching

Ramírez-Esparza

Gosling

Benet‐Martínez

et al. 2006

Journal of Research in Personality

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Section: Article In Pressmentioning

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Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching

Ramírez-Esparza

Gosling

Benet‐Martínez

et al. 2006

Journal of Research in Personality

212

177

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“…The two items are summed to create a scale for traditional gender attitudes (Cronbach's alpha=.53), and a higher score indicates less acculturation to the U.S. Literature on Mexican-American culture indicates that immigrants tend to hold traditional views about gender roles and that these views may alter over time in the U.S. (Freeberg and Stein 1996;Gil and Vega 1996;Rogler and Cooney 1984;Sabogal et al 1987). …”

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The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans

Kimbro

Lynch

McLanahan

2007

Popul Res Policy Rev

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This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to test the hypotheses that (1) Similar to other positive pre-and post-natal outcomes, Mexican immigrant mothers are more likely to breastfeed, and to breastfeed longer, than white or Mexican-American mothers; and (2) Acculturation accounts for the ethnic/nativity differential in breastfeeding initiation and duration. The results support both hypotheses. Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are much more likely than whites to breastfeed, and to breastfeed longer. Mexican-American mothers, after controlling for background characteristics, have similar initiation and duration to whites. Using expanded acculturation measures developed for this paper, acculturation accounts for some of the difference between whites and Mexican immigrants in breastfeeding initiation, and much of the difference for breastfeeding duration. The results suggest that low levels of acculturation operate to protect Mexican immigrants from choosing to formula-feed, which gives their babies many health advantages, and may be associated with better health outcomes across the life course. The results also suggest that successive generations of Mexican immigrants may abandon breastfeeding, which is deleterious for their infants.

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“…On self-description tasks, participants generate more aspects of their individual self than their collective self regardless of levels of collectivism and individualism (Gaertner et al, 1999, Investigation 4;Ybarra & Trafimow, 1998, Experiment 3) and culture of origin (Trafimow et al, 1991). Furthermore, persons of color (i.e., African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos) score higher than do Anglos on measures of collectivism, yet they score just as high as Anglos on measures of individualism (Freeberg & Stein, 1996;Gaines et al, 1997).…”

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The "I," the "we," and the "when": A meta-analysis of motivational primacy in self-definition.

Gaertner¹,

Sedikides²,

Vevea³

et al. 2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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What is the primary motivational basis of self-definition? The authors meta-analytically assessed 3 hypotheses: (a) The individual self is motivationally primary, (b) the collective self is motivationally primary, and (c) neither self is inherently primary; instead, motivational primacy depends on which self becomes accessible through contextual features. Results identified the individual self as the primary motivational basis of self-definition. People react more strongly to threat and enhancement of the individual than the collective self. Additionally, people more readily deny threatening information and more readily accept enhancing information when it pertains to the individual rather than the collective self, regardless of contextual influences. The individual self is the psychological home base, a stable system that can react flexibly to contextual influences.The right of nature . . . is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.-Nathan Hale, spoken at his deathThe self is in a continual process of construction, it cannot be adequately made up excepting in terms of the content which it supplies for the situation in which the agent has to act. -John Dewey, Lectures on Psychological and Political EthicsThis article is concerned with a fundamental issue in psychology, education, social sciences, and humanities: Does the self-concept have a motivational hierarchy? Do all selves (i.e., self-definitions) have equal motivational potential? Which selfdefinition is motivationally primary?We distinguish among three theoretical approaches to the issue. The first approach, one example of which is Hobbes's statement, posits that the individual self is motivationally primary. The second approach, exemplified by Hale's proclamation, maintains that the collective self is motivationally primary. The third approach advocates that neither self is inherently primary. Instead, the self that is more accessible through situational or contextual influences is motivationally primary-a proposition that is in spirit with Dewey's thinking.We articulate the three theoretical approaches and review relevant research. We argue that, when considered alone, each approach appears to be supported. However, independent tests, per se, tell only part of the story. Comparative tests provide a more refined solution to the problem. We report a meta-analysis of empirical studies relevant to the issue of relative motivational status.

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Felt Obligation Towards Parents in Mexican-American and Anglo-American Young Adults

Cited by 122 publications

References 26 publications

Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching

Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching

The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans

The "I," the "we," and the "when": A meta-analysis of motivational primacy in self-definition.

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