Deck 8: Latinoa Americans

Question 1

In a study by Supple and colleagues of Latino/a American adolescents in high- and low-risk neighborhoods, ethnic socialization was associated with ethnic pride:

A) when peers also had ethnic pride
B) only for Mexican Americans
C) only in high-risk neighborhoods
D) only in low-risk neighborhoods

Answer 1

only in low-risk neighborhoods

Question 2

Which group of parents was found by Varela and colleagues to be most authoritarian?

A) Mexican parents
B) Mexican American parents
C) European American parents
D) Mexican American parents only in settings in which they were the majority

Answer 2

Mexican American parents

Question 3

In a study of Mexican American and European American schizophrenics, López and colleagues found that family warmth:

A) had a minimal impact on psychotic symptoms but created greater acceptance of the schizophrenics
B) was associated with fewer posthospitalization psychotic symptoms among European Americans
C) was associated with fewer posthospitalization psychotic symptoms among Mexican Americans
D) was associated with fewer posthospitalization psychotic symptoms among both Mexican Americans and European Americans

Answer 3

was associated with fewer posthospitalization psychotic symptoms among Mexican Americans

Question 4

The Latino/a American group with the strongest ethnic identity is:

A) Cuban Americans
B) Dominican Americans
C) Mexican Americans
D) Puerto Rican Americans

Question 5

The North American Free Trade Agreement:

A) created farming jobs for Mexicans
B) increased tariffs on U.S. crops imported by Mexico
C) was the basis of the Zapatista revolt
D) allowed undocumented immigrants to return to Mexico without punishment

Question 6

Which of these cultural characteristics is most likely to change as a result of acculturation among Mexican Americans?

A) familismo
B) machismo
C) marianismo
D) Mexican cultural values

Question 7

Lau and colleagues found that Mexican American parents being more aligned with American culture than their children were was associated with their children's:

A) academic achievement
B) greater self-esteem
C) competitiveness
D) conduct problems

Question 8

Gee and colleagues found among Latino/a Americans that discrimination was most strongly associated with mental health problems for:

A) recent immigrants
B) immigrants who had spent more time in the U.S.
C) the children of immigrants
D) immigrants who were political refugees

Question 9

Which Latino/a group was welcomed into the U.S. during the 1980s as political refugees of the Sandinistas?

A) Chileans
B) Nicaraguans
C) Salvadorans
D) Guatemalans

Question 10

Among Mexican American couples in a study by Flores and colleagues, direct expression of feelings and conflict was associated with:

A) aggression
B) greater intimacy
C) greater marital satisfaction
D) withdrawal