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Latinas’ Use Of Spirituality As A Coping Mechanism, Ashley Lauren Faytol
Latinas’ Use Of Spirituality As A Coping Mechanism, Ashley Lauren Faytol
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread public health concern with consequences that negatively impact many areas of survivors’ functioning (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017, 2019; Ellsberg et al., 2008; Gorde et al., 2004; Kelly, 2010a). The negative impacts of IPV are more severe for Latinas than their White counterparts (e.g., Bonomi et al., 2009; Kelly, 2010b; Stockman et al., 2015), causing IPV to be considered a health disparity within the Latina community (Caetano et al., 2005). While spirituality has been shown to be an effective coping mechanism for many stressors in Latinas’ lives, it has not …
“I Wasn’T Expecting It”: High School Experiences And Navigating Belonging In The Transition To College, Carly Offidani-Bertrand, Gabriel Velez, Claudia Benz, Micere Keels
“I Wasn’T Expecting It”: High School Experiences And Navigating Belonging In The Transition To College, Carly Offidani-Bertrand, Gabriel Velez, Claudia Benz, Micere Keels
College of Education Faculty Research and Publications
For emerging adults transitioning to college, normative social and contextual shifts present challenges that are largely a productive aspect of development. But not all students have the same experiences, nor do all students manage similar experiences in similar ways. Black and Latinx emerging adults transitioning to Historically White Institutions must adjust not only to college life but also to feeling different and, sometimes, isolated. There is a dearth of qualitative work examining how students of color make meaning of their racial-ethnic experiences on campus. Our article draws on a mixed-methods study of Black and Latinx emerging adults’ transition to college …
Coping With Discrimination Among Mexican Descent Adolescents, Lisa Edwards, Andrea J. Romero
Coping With Discrimination Among Mexican Descent Adolescents, Lisa Edwards, Andrea J. Romero
College of Education Faculty Research and Publications
The current research is designed to explore the relationship among discrimination stress, coping strategies, and self-esteem among Mexican descent youth (N = 73, age 11-15 years). Results suggest that primary control engagement and disengagement coping strategies are positively associated with discrimination stress. Furthermore, self-esteem is predicted by an interaction of primary control engagement coping and discrimination stress, such that at higher levels of discrimination stress, youth who engaged in more primary control engagement coping reported higher self-esteem. The authors’ findings indicate that Mexican descent youth are actively finding ways to cope with the common experience of negative stereotypes and prejudice, …