Center, Great Plains Studies
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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Date of this Version
2008
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of similarity and difference in psychosocial well-being among 42 first-generation, Spanish-speaking Latinas, 23 second-generation, English-speaking Latinas, and 25 English-speaking Caucasian women residing in five unique rural Nebraska communities. Participants completed a series of self-report survey instruments to assess indices of psychosocial health, including: marital satisfaction, marital communication, family communication, social support, and depression. Spanishspeaking Latinas and English-speaking Caucasians evidenced the greatest similarity in patterns of experience. Twenty-eight percent of the total sample (n = 25) scored above the clinical cutoff for depression. Implications and suggestions for future work are discussed.
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Published in Great Plains Research, 18:2 (Fall 2008) 143-54. Copyright © 2008 by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln