Psychosocial empowerment and social support factors associated with the employment status of immigrant welfare recipients

Ramı́rez, Manuel Garcı́a; Martínez, Manuel Fco.; Balcázar, Fabricio E.; Suárez-Balcázar, Yolanda; Albar, María Jesús; Domínguez, Eugenia; Santolaya, Francisco

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“…In the same year, Garcia-Ramirez et al (2005) found that acculturation is also linked to empowering processes like the structure of social support networks. The relationships between these constructs are examined in the current study.…”

Section: Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Psychological Empowmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Peterson and Reid's model suggests that awareness of substance abuse problems has a paradoxical effect on the other predictor factors; it increases citizen participation and empowerment by serving as a catalyst for action but negatively impacts neighborhood sense of community. Theory has suggested that the development of one's ethnic identity can be a central predictor of empowerment (Garcia-Ramirez, Martinez, Balcazar, SuarezBalcazar, Albar, Dominguez et al, 2005), though research to support this hypothesis is limited with regard to the demographics of the sample populations (Livingston, 2004;Reid, Brown, Peterson, Snowden, & Hines, 2009). To that end, the addition of ethnic identity (as measured by the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure) was also a focus of the proposed study.…”

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Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

Tamanas¹

2011

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The current study involved the development and testing of a path model to predict psychological empowerment for urban youth ages 13-17. Data from a survey of urban youth in a city in the northeast United States were analyzed to test the model. The variables included in the model were: perceived neighborhood problems, neighborhood sense of community, social support, participation in community and school activities, and ethnic identity. Utilizing structural equation modeling, survey data were analyzed to determine whether the hypothesized model fit the data and to examine how the five predictor factors influenced an individual's level of psychological empowerment, as measured by the revised sociopolitical control scale. Path models were developed for the full sample and for gender-specific subgroups. Results showed that the hypothesized model provided a good fit to the data from the full sample of participants and crucial differences existed in the models for females and males. A key finding of this study was the critical role of ethnic identity in the psychological empowerment process; it was empowerment's strongest predictor variable for all three models. Key gender-related differences included the direct effect of perceived neighborhood problems on empowerment and the negative effect of perceived neighborhood problems on social support being mediated by neighborhood sense of community for females but not males.Strategies to promote ethnic identity development and implications for practice based on full sample and gender-specific differences are presented. Limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Section: Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Psychological Empowmentioning

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Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

Tamanas¹

2011

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“…Studies have provided strong evidence on the important role of social support in immigrants' adaptation to their new environment (Berry, 1997;Trickett & Buchanan, 2001), and more specifically in promoting adaptive coping skills (Sarason & Duck, 2001), maintaining a work-family balance under financial pressure (Van Daalen, Willemsen, & Sander, 2006;Wall & José, 2004), alleviating psychological distress (Lin & Hung, 2007;Mirsky, 2009), increasing job readiness (Garcia-Ramirez et al, 2005), and enhancing community integration (Lynam, 1985). Highlighted in these studies is that social support from core family members constitutes the primary source of social support for women in transnational marriages (Lin & Hung, 2007).…”

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Social sustainability for mothers in Hong Kong’s low-income communities

Cheung

2011

Habitat International

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“…Researchers in community psychology (e.g., Diversi & Mecham, 2005;Garcia-Ramirez et al, 2005) have recently pointed to the potentially important link between acculturation and empowerment, a principal theory of the discipline. Empowerment refers to the process through which individuals, organizations, and communities gain greater control, efficacy, and social justice (Peterson & Zimmerman, 2004).…”

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“…At the individual level, variables such as community participation and social support have been widely recognized as a fundamental predictor of empowerment (Itzhaky & York, 2000. Although we only included community participation in the present study, it is important to note that acculturation may influence individual-level empowerment as well as empowering processes like the structure of social support networks (Garcia-Ramirez et al, 2005). Future research would benefit from efforts to analyze the direct and indirect relationships between acculturation, participation, social support, and empowerment.…”

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Testing the factor structure of a scale to assess african american acculturation: a confirmatory factor analysis

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Journal Community Psychology

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Research has pointed to the important role that acculturation plays in understanding a range of physical health behaviors as well as psychological functioning, but only a few studies have attempted to establish reliable and valid measures of African American acculturation. The scale developed by Snowden and Hines (1999) to assess African American acculturation provided an interesting line of inquiry for the present study because no further validation studies have been conducted to assess the underlying factor structure of this measure since its introduction several years ago. Confirmatory factor analysis techniques were used to test the measure's underlying structure and to determine consistency with the results of the original study. Results suggest that this scale represents multiple dimensions of acculturation (i.e., media preferences, social interaction patterns, and attitudes). Findings will assist researchers and practitioners in the future measurement and application of this construct. C 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Psychosocial empowerment and social support factors associated with the employment status of immigrant welfare recipients

Cited by 38 publications

References 43 publications

Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

Role of Ethnic Identity in Participatory Processes That Facilitate Psychological Empowerment Among Urban Youth

Social sustainability for mothers in Hong Kong’s low-income communities

Testing the factor structure of a scale to assess african american acculturation: a confirmatory factor analysis

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