Minority Status, Ethnic Culture, and Distress: A Comparison of Blacks, Whites, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans
Minority Status, Ethnic Culture, and Distress: A Comparison of Blacks, Whites, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans
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少数民族地位、民族文化和困境：黑人、白人、墨西哥人和墨西哥裔美国人的比较
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发表时间：
1980
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
C. Ross
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J. Mirowsky;C. Ross
我们研究了黑人，白人，墨西哥人和墨西哥裔美国人的心理健康。关于这些群体之间的苦恼差异有两种观点：少数民族地位观点和民族文化观点。在少数群体地位观点的背景下，检验了两个假设：（1）少数群体地位本身令人痛苦。(2)少数民族地位之所以令人不安，只是因为它与社会地位低下有关。在种族文化的角度来看，一些额外的假设进行了测试：（3）墨西哥遗产与较低的痛苦（4），因为社会压力的影响是不是在墨西哥遗产的人之间的大。然而，（5）生活在美国但不是在这里长大的墨西哥人由于文化疏远而遭受痛苦。从少数群体地位的角度来看，假设1被拒绝。假设2的支持条件是，虽然黑人和墨西哥少数民族都受到低收入的困扰，但只有黑人受到低教育的困扰。这一发现表明了民族文化视角的有用性。由于墨西哥人比其他人的痛苦更低，假设3得到支持。假设4之所以被接受，是因为墨西哥人并不因教育水平低或离婚和分居而感到痛苦。假设5被拒绝。研究结果表明，未来的研究应该集中在特定的文化安排，而不是一般的少数民族地位的影响。
We examine the psychological well-being of blacks, whites, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. There are two perspectives on the differences in distress among these groups: the minority-status perspective and the ethnic-culture perspective. Within the context of the minority status perspective, two hypotheses are tested: (1) Minority status per se is distressing. (2) Minority status is distressing only because it is associated with low social class. Within the ethnic-culture perspective, a number of additional hypotheses are tested: (3) Mexican heritage is associated with lower distress (4) because the impact of social stressors is not as great among persons of Mexican heritage as among others. However, (5) Mexicans living in the United States but not raised here suffer distress due to cultural alienation. Within the minority-status perspective, hypothesis 1 is rejected. Hypothesis 2 is supported with the qualification that, although both the black and Mexican minorities are distressed by low income, only blacks are distressed by low education. This finding indicates the usefulness of the ethnic-culture perspective. Since Mexicans have lower distress than others, hypothesis 3 is supported. Hypothesis 4 is accepted because Mexicans are not distressed by low education or by divorce and separation. Hypothesis 5 is rejected. The results suggest that future research should concentrate on the effects of specific cultural arrangements rather than on general minority-status effects.