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ACCULTURATION AND LATINO IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH ATTITUDES
AND BEHAVIORS: A BI-DIMENSIONAL ACCULTURATION MODEL
by
Hayeun Song
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirement for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Hayeun Song
Object Description
| Title | Acculturation and Latino immigrants ' health attitudes and behaviors: a bi-dimensional acculturation model |
| Author | Song, Hayeun |
| Author email | hayeon.song@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-12-06 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 24 July 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-07-24 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Ball-Rokeach, Sandra |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McLaughlin, Margaret Lee, Kwan Min Valente, Tom |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines the effect of acculturation on Latino health disparity based on a bi-dimensional model of acculturation. First, the author reviews the literature of acculturation and introduces two models of acculturation: uni-dimensional and bi-dimensional models of acculturation. The author critiques previous studies in public health by pointing out that this scholarship predominantly relied on an uni-dimensional model of acculturation, consequently ignoring bilingual groups, which is currently almost half of the Latino population in the U.S.; Next, this dissertation applied a bi-dimensional model of acculturation in the health disparity discipline and empirically tests the effect of acculturation on Latino health attitudes and behaviors regarding diabetes, obesity, and substance use. First, the comparison among bilinguals, English monolinguals and Spanish monolinguals reveals their differences in terms of their health access, health status, health problem solving capacities, and healthy behavior and lifestyle. Second, the author investigates the communication environment in which the three groups (i.e., English monolinguals, Spanish monolinguals, and bilinguals) are situated and theirhealth information seeking behaviors.; The result of the study shows that bilinguals are clearly different from English monolinguals and Spanish monolinguals in terms of many health attitudes and behaviors. It suggests that when the comparison goes beyond a binary model (English and Spanish speakers) and bilinguals are not disregarded, it may provide more accurate explanation of the effect of acculturation. Discussion about the limitations and implications of the study follows. |
| Keyword | health disparities; latino health; acculturation |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1396 |
| Rights | Song, Hayeun |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Song-20080724 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Song-20080724.pdf |
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| Full text | ACCULTURATION AND LATINO IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS: A BI-DIMENSIONAL ACCULTURATION MODEL by Hayeun Song A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Hayeun Song |
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