Mental Health and Addiction State of Ethnocultural/Racial Communities

Nouroozifar, Mona; Zangeneh, Masood

doi:10.1007/s11469-006-9037-5

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“…The experience of elevated levels of acculturative stress may place Hispanic immigrants at risk of a variety of mental disorders such as alcohol and illicit drug use disorder as well as generalized anxiety and major depressive disorder (Alderete, Vega, Kolody, & Aguilar-Gaxiola, 2000; Grant et al, 2004; Kulis, Marsiglia, & Nieri, 2009). Importantly, however, Hispanics are a large and diverse population in the United States, and as such, it is unlikely that all Hispanics experience acculturative stress in the same way or to the same degree (Berry, 1990; Nouroozifar & Zangeneh, 2006). Moreover, it is reasonable to suspect that the various profiles of acculturative stress are linked with mental disorders in different ways.…”

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Toward a Typology of Acculturative Stress

Salas-Wright

Robles

Vaughn

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Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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The objective of this study is to identify latent classes of Hispanic immigrants on the basis of acculturative stress and, in turn, examine the links between membership in acculturative stress classes and the prevalence of mental disorders. We use latent class analysis (LCA) and multinomial logistic regression with data from a population-based study of Hispanic immigrants in the United States (n = 1,630). Classes were identified as "Low Acculturative Stress" (38.40%); "Social and Linguistic Stress" (32.27%); "Acculturative Stress, No Fear of Deportation" (20.06%); and "Acculturative Stress, Fear of Deportation" (9.26%). Members of the "Acculturative Stress, Fear of Deportation" class were significantly more likely than members of the "Low Acculturative Stress" class to meet criteria for generalized anxiety disorder (risk ratios [RR] = 3.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.00, 12.56]). The present study represents an important step in the development of a typology of acculturative stress among Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

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Toward a Typology of Acculturative Stress

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Robles

Vaughn

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Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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“…Such discouragement, however, is very unlikely given the pervasive hedonistic consumer culture (Jagger 2000) and the erosion of the Protestant ethic of delayed gratification and self-control that once underpinned the North American culture (Abt 1996). It is no wonder, then, that in addition to 'youth' the elderly, minorities, and low-income individuals have also been found to be high-risk categories for gambling problems (Derevensky et al 2004a, b;Nouroozifar and Zangeneh 2006).…”

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Canadian Dream, Capitalism, and the State: Structural Conditions of Youth Gambling in Canada

Barmaki

Zangeneh

2007

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Adolescent gambling is a major social problem in North America. Over the years this problem has given rise to a number of theoretical explanations. This paper argues that the existing explanations of youth gambling underestimate the influence of broader structural forces conducive to youth gambling problem and, instead, provide micro analyses that often blames individuals for their gambling problems. As such, these theories produce incomplete pictures of a persistent, cohesive and growing problem. Canadian youth's gambling problem is said to be better understood within the nexus of: (1) the Canadian state's pro-gambling policies due to the need for revenues, (2) the discrepancy between widely shared Canadian cultural values-wealth, power, and success-and legitimate means of achieving them, and (3) the capitalist processes of profit making and commodification.

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