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The Relationship Between Acculturation And Depression Among First Generation Christian Arab American Adults, Salma Khshaiboon
The Relationship Between Acculturation And Depression Among First Generation Christian Arab American Adults, Salma Khshaiboon
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
Contrary to the common belief that most Arab Americans are Muslim, 77% of Arab Americans are Christian (Awad, 2010). There is no research that addresses the unique experience of Christian Arab Americans with the process of acculturating to the larger American society while maintaining the values of their ethnic group. The purpose of this study is to measure levels of acculturation with its two factors; ethnic society immersion and dominant society immersion, and depression with its two factors; cognitive-affective and somatic-vegetative and examine the relationships between them. In the current study, 101 Christian Arab American participants (ages 18 and above) …