Culture, control, and coping: New perspectives on social support

Liang, Belle; Bogat, G. Anne

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“…In this context, research on the influence of parental attachment on academics has also revealed cultural and ethnic differences possibly associated with the collectivist nature of the culture or the adolescent's reliance on self-discipline coping strategies. [19,20] The present study revealed that late adolescent college students' levels of perceived parental and peer attachment showed substantial variability, and there was a significant association between the two types of attachment. Furthermore, Final academic score was statistically significant between Saudi and Egyptian students with no one Saudi student had poor or fair score and higher number of Saudi students had very good score (see FigureS 2 and 3).…”

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“…[18] Moreover, the influence of attachment on academic achievement affected by cultural and ethnic differences i.e., collectivist nature may be characterized by reliance on self-discipline as coping strategies. [19,20] Previously, most of studies have focused on relations between students' peer networks and their academic achievement. Some have suggested positive relations between peer acceptance, and academic success among both children and adolescents.…”

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Effect of parents and peer attachment on academic achievement of late adolescent nursing students - A comparative study

Gemeay

Ahmed

Ahmad

et al. 2015

JNEP

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Background: Parental and peer attachment have been shown to affect students' academic performance and educational outcomes. Although low attachment to parents and peers was not the single predictor of poor academic performance, strong attachment was found to influence the college students' sense of self and promoted higher self-esteem. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of parents' and peer attachment on academic achievement of late adolescent nursing students and compare this effect among Saudi and Egyptian students. In spite of that the total sample were taken from Arab countries, each sample differ in many ways mainly the conservative culture and economic status that was reflected in parent and peer attachment among both countries which foster the researcher to compare it. Methods: Design: Comparative study design was used for this study should be added here after the methods. Setting: This study was conducted in the Faculty of Nursing-University of Dammam-KSA and Faculty of Nursing-Assuit University-Egypt. Subject: A total subject of 492 nursing students was enrolled in the study (which is representative of the nursing students from level 3 to level 8). Tool: Two tools were used for this study. Tool I: demographic data of the students & GPA. Tool II: Attachment inventory scale The IPPA consists of 25 items for the mother, 25 items for the father, and 25 items for the peers. A comparative study design was used and a self-report questionnaire with a five point Likert scale response was filled by the study subject. Results: Attachment of Egyptian students to their peers was significantly higher than Saudi students. A significant subscales of attachment between Saudi and Egyptian students were mother's alienation and peer alienation, high parent and high peer attachment group working more better on academic achievement, however the low parent and peer attachment group wasn't considered as the single predictor of poor academic performance. Conclusions: Parent's attachment in our study appears to have no effect on academic achievement of both countries. Peer attachment seemed to have a significant effect on academic performance for Egyptian students and not for Saudi students.

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Effect of parents and peer attachment on academic achievement of late adolescent nursing students - A comparative study

Gemeay

Ahmed

Ahmad

et al. 2015

JNEP

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“…Different orientations comprising religious involvement interacting with spiritual health locus of control beliefs may be associated, based on theory, with value-laden lifestyle behaviors in accord with religious proscriptions such as those against alcohol and tobacco use. General locus of control has been found to act in an interactive (moderator) fashion with other psychosocial variables in health-related research (Liang & Bogat, 1994;Solomon et al, 1988;Vander Zee et al, 1997;Voils et al, 2005), but there is no previous research on spiritual health locus of control as a moderating influence in health-related research or on health behaviors. There is also little known about gender differences in these potential relationships.…”

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Gender Differences in the Roles of Religion and Locus of Control on Alcohol Use and Smoking Among African Americans

Holt

Roth

Huang

et al. 2015

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Spiritual health locus of control reflects a person's beliefs about the role of a higher power in one's health and can take an active or a passive perspective. The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating role of active and passive spiritual health locus of control beliefs on select health risk behaviors-alcohol use and smoking-in a national sample of African Americans. Method: A national U.S. probability sample of study participants (N = 2,370; 906 men; 1,464 women) completed a telephone survey assessing religious involvement, active and passive spiritual health locus of control beliefs, and alcohol consumption and smoking status. Because of previous research suggesting gender-specific associations among these variables, moderation analyses were conducted separately for men and women. Results: For women, higher religious behaviors were associated with less alcohol use, and this effect was more pronounced among those high in active spiritual health locus of control. For men, the combination of lower religious beliefs and higher passive spiritual health locus of control was associated with more alcohol consumption and more days of consuming five or more alcoholic drinks. No moderation effects were found for smoking. Conclusions: This study identified unique patterns of religious involvement and spiritual health locus of control beliefs that are associated with alcohol use, including heavy drinking, among African Americans. These findings have implications for pastoral counseling and other faith-based approaches for addressing heavy drinking in African Americans. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 76, 482-492, 2015)

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“…Such a perspective takes as given that ethnic groups will have differing cultural norms, experiences, and world views, and thus may differ in the meanings attributed to various life circumstances and in the importance of different social support sources (cf. Betancourt & L6pez, 1993;Broman, Hamilton, Hoffman, & Mavaddat, 1994;Golding & Baezconde-Garbanati, 1990;Liang & Bogat, 1994;Mirowsky & Ross, 1980;Vaux, 1988;Vega, 1992;Zea, Jarama, & Bianchi, 1995).…”

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Cultural specificity of support sources, correlates and contexts: Three studies of African‐American and Caucasian youth

Matón

Teti

Corns

et al. 1996

American J of Comm Psychol

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Levels and correlates of parental support, peer support, partner support, and/or spiritual support among African American and Caucasian youth were examined in three contexts: adolescent pregnancy (Study 1), first year of college (Study 2), and adolescence and young adulthood (age 15-29; Study 3). Partially consistent with a cultural specificity perspective, in different contexts different support sources were higher in level and/or more strongly related to adjustment for one ethnic group than the other. Among pregnant adolescents, levels of spiritual support were higher for African Americans than Caucasians; additionally, peer support was positively related to well-being only for African Americans whereas partner support was positively related to well-being only for Caucasians. Among college freshmen, family support was more strongly related to institutional and goal commitment for African Americans than Caucasians; conversely, peer support was more strongly related to institutional and goal commitment among Caucasians. Among 15 to 29-year-olds, levels of parental support and spiritual support were higher among African Americans than Caucasians; additionally, spiritual support was positively related to self-esteem for African Americans but not for Caucasians. Implications and limitations of the research are discussed.

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Culture, control, and coping: New perspectives on social support

Abstract: Researchers have offered various explanations for inconsistent findings in

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Effect of parents and peer attachment on academic achievement of late adolescent nursing students - A comparative study

Effect of parents and peer attachment on academic achievement of late adolescent nursing students - A comparative study

Gender Differences in the Roles of Religion and Locus of Control on Alcohol Use and Smoking Among African Americans

Cultural specificity of support sources, correlates and contexts: Three studies of African‐American and Caucasian youth

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