Marianismo and Caregiving Role Beliefs Among US-Born and Immigrant Mexican Women
Marianismo and Caregiving Role Beliefs Among US-Born and Immigrant Mexican Women
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/gbv083
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Anthony, Katherine P.
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作者：
Mendez-Luck, Carolyn A.;Anthony, Katherine P.
我们的目的是探索墨西哥裔妇女是如何从文化信仰、社会规范、角色功能和家庭义务的角度将照料概念化的。我们调查了在美国出生和移民的墨西哥女性照顾者的个人经历，以确定这两个群体对照顾者角色的看法有何不同。我们对居住在南加州的44名照顾者进行了一次性深入访谈。我们的研究是在墨西哥家庭中女性扮演的传统角色--马里亚主义指导下进行的。我们从扎根的理论方法分析数据，采用不断比较的方法对数据进行提炼和分类。大多数照顾者都有类似的观点，认为照看是一种选择的事业，几乎所有的照顾者都参与了自我牺牲的行为来履行马里亚主义的角色。尽管有这些相似之处，美国出生的和移民的照顾者使用不同的词来描述相同的概念，或者为照看的其他关键方面赋予不同的含义，这表明这两个群体有不同的潜在照看动机和对角色的取向。我们的发现突显了潜在照看概念的语言和文化的复杂性，使得这些概念在不同的拉丁裔样本中具有可操作性和定义的挑战性。
We aimed to explore how women of Mexican-origin conceptualized caregiving as a construct in terms of cultural beliefs, social norms, role functioning, and familial obligations. We examined the personal experiences of U.S-born and immigrant Mexican female caregivers to identify how these 2 groups differed in their views of the caregiver role.We conducted 1-time in-depth interviews with 44 caregivers living in Southern California. Our study was guided by marianismo, a traditional role occupied by women in the Mexican family. We analyzed data from a grounded theory approach involving the constant comparative method to refine and categorize the data.The majority of all caregivers had similar views about caregiving as an undertaking by choice, and almost all caregivers engaged in self-sacrificing actions to fulfill the marianismo role. Despite these similarities, U.S.-born and immigrant caregivers used different words to describe the same concepts or assigned different meanings to other key aspects of caregiving, suggesting that these 2 groups had different underlying motivations for caregiving and orientations to the role.Our findings highlight the complexity of language and culture in underlying caregiving concepts, making the concepts challenging to operationalize and define in a heterogeneous sample of Latinos.