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Border X-Ing, Alicia A. Castro Feb 2015

Border X-Ing, Alicia A. Castro

SURGE

The sun out-stretched its bright arms in an embrace with the mesquite trees that beckoned upwards. The wind greeted the clothes drying upon delicate wire while my mother meticulously placed white towels in the light and the jeans under the shade of the Arizona Ash. The washboard sits upright in the bucket full of suds and other assorted laundry. Inside the shed there is both a working dryer and washer only a few years old, but she has chosen to do this chore outside. Here she can close her eyes and be back in Mexico with the dry heat and …


Mexican-American Adolescents’ Gender-Typed Characteristics: The Role Of Sibling And Friend Characteristics, Norma J. Perez-Brena, Lorey A. Wheeler, Kimberly A. Updegraff, David R. Shaefer Jan 2015

Mexican-American Adolescents’ Gender-Typed Characteristics: The Role Of Sibling And Friend Characteristics, Norma J. Perez-Brena, Lorey A. Wheeler, Kimberly A. Updegraff, David R. Shaefer

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Faculty Publications

This study examined the role of sibling and friend characteristics in Mexican-American youth’s gender-typed characteristics (i.e., attitudes, interests, and leisure activities) in early versus middle adolescence using a sibling design. Mexican-American 7th graders (M = 12.51 years; SD = .58) and their older siblings (M = 15.48 years; SD = 1.57) from 246 families participated in home interviews and a series of seven nightly phone calls. Results revealed that younger/early adolescent siblings reported more traditional gender role attitudes than their older/middle adolescent siblings and older brothers were more traditional in their attitudes than older sisters. When comparing siblings’ …


Mother-Reported Sleep, Accelerometer-Estimated Sleep, And Weight Status In Mexican American Children: Sleep Duration Is Associated With Increased Adiposity And Risk For Overweight/Obese Status, Suzanna M. Martinez, Louise C. Greenspan, Nancy F. Butte, Steven E. Gregorich, Cynthia L. De Groat, Julianna Deardorff, Carlos Penilla, Lauri A. Pasch, Elena Flores, Jeanne M. Tschann Jan 2014

Mother-Reported Sleep, Accelerometer-Estimated Sleep, And Weight Status In Mexican American Children: Sleep Duration Is Associated With Increased Adiposity And Risk For Overweight/Obese Status, Suzanna M. Martinez, Louise C. Greenspan, Nancy F. Butte, Steven E. Gregorich, Cynthia L. De Groat, Julianna Deardorff, Carlos Penilla, Lauri A. Pasch, Elena Flores, Jeanne M. Tschann

School of Education Faculty Research

We know of no studies comparing parent-reported sleep with accelerometer-estimated sleep in their relation to pediatric adiposity. We examined: 1) the reliability of mother-reported sleep compared with accelerometer-estimated sleep, and 2) the relationship between both sleep measures and child adiposity. The current cross-sectional study included 304 Mexican American mother-child pairs recruited from Kaiser Permanente Northern California. We measured sleep duration, using maternal report and accelerometry, and child anthropometrics. Concordance between sleep measures was evaluated using the Bland-Altman method. We conducted zero-ordered correlations between mother-reported sleep, accelerometer-estimated sleep and child BMI z-scores (BMIz). Using linear regression, we examined three models to …