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Look what I can do!
While playing with their toys, little boys imagine all the things they can be, including a race car driver, a builder, a soldier and a superhero.
Book
Filipino American Culture and Family: Guidelines for Practitioners
The author introduces relevant information about Filipino American culture and families in three subcategories: family and extended-family values, marital relations, and children. Guidelines for social work practice with Filipino Americans are offered.
Journal Article
Look what I can make!
While playing, little boys make a pretend pirate ship, submarine, train and more.
Book
Assumptions of Asian American Similarity: The Case of Filipino and Chinese American Students
The conventional research model of clustering ethnic groups into four broad categories risks perpetuating a pedagogy of stereotypes in social work policies and practice methods. Using an elaborated research model, this study tested the assumption of cultural similarity of Filipino and Chinese American college students by examining attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs related to dating violence. The sample included Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic, and white undergraduate students from a large urban university. Findings suggest that Filipino students are more similar to white students than to Chinese students. Regardless of ethnic group, women had more similarities with one another than men in their attitudes toward women. The findings were mixed regarding definitions and justifications of violence.
Journal Article
Partner violence, depression, and practice implications with families of Chinese descent
Because the Chinese tend to display psychological problems such as depression in somatic This article examines cultural aspects, experiences, and the mental health consequences of partner violence among families of Chinese descent. A total of 262 Chinese men and women participated in a telephone survey about partner violence and psychological well-being. Symptoms, two indicators of mental health were employed in the research study. Findings indicated a high level of verbal aggression both perpetrated and sustained by participants. Rates of physical abuse were lower; however, these figures dispel the model minority myth associated with Asian Americans. In addition, findings showed a positive correlation between depression and partner violence. Those who experienced verbal and physical aggression by a spouse/intimate partner in the last 12 months were more likely to experience depression. Those who perpetrated physical aggression were more likely to experience somatic symptoms. Practice and research implications are highlighted.
Journal Article
Effects of Economic Stress on High School Students' Views of Work and the Future
A sample of 500 students from a high school in an agricultural region of the Northwest responded to a questionnaire that examined their values and attitudes toward work and employment and assessed their status on two mental health measures. The authors hypothesized that such variables as parental employment status, receipt of public assistance, and socioeconomic status would affect work valuation and mental health status. Five major findings emerge from the data. First, employment status of the father did not affect how well respondents felt about their job preparation or their work involvement, but it did affect their feelings about their own likelihood of getting a job. Second, students who reported low levels of confidence in finding work had more mental health problems than adolescents with high confidence. Third, grade point average emerged as a powerful correlate with most of the work, socioeconomic, and mental health variables. Fourth, a differential effect was found for Latino students, who reported more mental health difficulties and felt less confident about finding a job after graduation. In addition, their socioeconomic status was lower than that of the white students. Finally, seniors tended to have fewer mental health concerns than younger students. This article discusses the practice implications of these findings.
Journal Article
Filipino American immigrants:Social role strain, self-esteem, locus-of-control, social networks, coping, stress, and mental health outcome
This study describes emotional stress and its relationship to social role strain and assesses the effects of mediating and coping variables between social role strain and stress. Four separate multivariate role strain, mediator, coping, and stress model's were tested to explain stress and psychological well-being. Specifically, economic, occupational, parental, and marital role strains and stress were examined. Mediator variables examined included social networks and locus of control. Two-hundred and sixteen Filipino Americans eighteen years and older in Los Angeles County were surveyed using a probability sampling method. In this study, Filipinos do not experience high levels of stress or role strain. Generally, role strains and stress seem to be more influenced by sociodemographic variables. Those from lower socioeconomic positions tend to experience higher levels of role strain and stress than those from higher positions. Filipino Americans tend to use a variety of coping styles and are not tied to any one particular response. The coping style used appears to be associated with a particular social role strain or stress, locus of control, and socioeconomic status. Respondents with high internal locus of control scores and socioeconomic status tend to engage in positive and action styles of coping. Respondents have large extensive social networks. However, the findings suggest that frequent contacts with relatives may not always be a positive resource. Social networks did not significantly contribute to predicting stress in the tested model. Contrary to previous studies that report Filipinos as having an external fatalistic world view, the primary orientation of the sample is an internal one. Path analysis showed that respondents with high internal locus of control scores experience low levels of economic and occupational role strain.
Dissertation
Effects of Economic Stress on High School Students' Views of Work and the Future
Examines high school students' (N=500) values and attitudes toward work and employment. Assesses participants' status on two mental health measures and discusses the practical implications of the findings. Students with low confidence in finding work had more mental health problems than students with high confidence. (MKA)
Journal Article