The Role of Ethic Loyalty among Mexcan Immigrant Women (born, immigrants, immigrate)

[High Springs Gator]

The Role of Ethnic Loyalty among Mexican Immigrant Women

V. Nelly Salgado De Snyder
University of California, Los Angeles

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of Ethnic Loyalty in a sample of 140 Mexican women who immigrated to the United States at age 14 or older and who have lived in this country for an average of 7.5 years. Using the median of the ethnic loyalty scale as the cut-off point respondents were divided into two groups: High Loyalty and Low Loyalty. Women who remained highly loyal to Mexican culture (High Loyalty) had significantly lower levels of self-esteem and satisfaction and higher levels of acculturative stress than their counterparts who scored lower on the loyalty scale (Low Loyalty). Furthermore, most of the women in the High Loyalty group had plans of returning to Mexico and planned on obtaining only legal residency status rather than U.S. citizenship. Findings of the study suggest that because of the lack of appropriate coping skills to deal with their new environment, immigrant women from Mexico who remain strongly attached to their traditional Mexican culture (High Loyalty) are at higher risk of manifesting psychological conflicts than those women who are more flexible in their cultural orientation as shown by their lower ethnic loyalty scores.

The Role of Ethnic Loyalty among Mexican Immigrant Women -- De Snyder 9 (3): 287 -- Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

[blacknight04]

No offense but what's the point of this post?

[chele123]

Which supports the idea that immigrants should assimilate into their new country!

[blacknight04]

Not all immigrants are mexican.

[SmerkyGrl]

As someone who emigrated into this country with my parents, I know the above article certainly does not apply to all immigrants. In another words, it's a crock of horsepoop

Asians are highly loyal to our home culture and yet many are perfectly able to assimilate or perhaps even bring more into the American culture than we take out of it. I'm sure this is the case with many, many Mexicans as well.

[ArizonaBear]

I depends upon the individual woman in this case.

Some become 'American' whereas others tend to hold on to more of the old ways.

Same applies for men.

I am first generation US born/raised on my father's side and I consider myself to be an 'American', period--------no hyphen involved

[High Springs Gator]

Originally Posted by SmerkyGrl

As someone who emigrated into this country with my parents, I know the above article certainly does not apply to all immigrants. In another words, it's a crock of horsepoop

Yeah you are probably right. The author of the article is far too unqualified to know what she is talking about. BTW- Here is her bio

V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder (Mexico) obtained her doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Currently, she is Director of Community Health and Social Welfare of the Center for Health Systems Research of the Mexican National Institute of Public Health. Previous to this position, Dr. Salgado de Snyder was a senior researcher at the
National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico City and professor of public mental health at National Autonomous University of Mexico, School of Medicine. From 1980 to 1990 she was Associate Director of the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center, at UCLA.
Her professional research career for almost twenty-five years has focused on the psychosocial and cultural factors that affect the quality of life, physical and mental health of Mexican-origin groups in the United States: Immigrants and later generation Mexican Americans; documented and undocumented immigrants; wives and children left behind in Mexican rural villages, and return migrants. Dr. Salgado de Snyder has published her research findings internationally, in more than 70 journal articles and book chapters.
She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 45), Fulbright Fellow, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and member of the prestigious Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. She has also been the Associate Editor of the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences for the last 15 years. Among other groups of experts, Dr. Salgado de Snyder coordinates the Mexican side of the Migrant Health Core Group of the Mexico-U.S. Binational Commission; she is Presidential Advisor on Migration and Health; and Scientific Associate of the Texas/World Health Organization for Cross-Cultural Research on Mental Health and Psychosocial Factors in Health.

[Arizona Bound]

so.. in other words.. she'll say or do whatever she has to.. to help her get her poor repressed relatives across the border...

Educated in America... where else!

[SmerkyGrl]

Originally Posted by High Springs Gator

Yeah you are probably right. The author of the article is far too unqualified to know what she is talking about. BTW- Here is her bio

V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder (Mexico) obtained her doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Currently, she is Director of Community Health and Social Welfare of the Center for Health Systems Research of the Mexican National Institute of Public Health. Previous to this position, Dr. Salgado de Snyder was a senior researcher at the
National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico City and professor of public mental health at National Autonomous University of Mexico, School of Medicine. From 1980 to 1990 she was Associate Director of the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center, at UCLA.
Her professional research career for almost twenty-five years has focused on the psychosocial and cultural factors that affect the quality of life, physical and mental health of Mexican-origin groups in the United States: Immigrants and later generation Mexican Americans; documented and undocumented immigrants; wives and children left behind in Mexican rural villages, and return migrants. Dr. Salgado de Snyder has published her research findings internationally, in more than 70 journal articles and book chapters.
She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 45), Fulbright Fellow, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and member of the prestigious Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. She has also been the Associate Editor of the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences for the last 15 years. Among other groups of experts, Dr. Salgado de Snyder coordinates the Mexican side of the Migrant Health Core Group of the Mexico-U.S. Binational Commission; she is Presidential Advisor on Migration and Health; and Scientific Associate of the Texas/World Health Organization for Cross-Cultural Research on Mental Health and Psychosocial Factors in Health.

I learned in creative writing that you can spin any Joe Schmo's resume into a professional-sounding piece of art.

She might have a lot of "experience" but as I previously said, every immigrant's story is different and her "study" certainly doesn't apply to most Asians that I know.

Just because you have a long bio doesn't make you right when you're...uh. wrong.

[andreabeth]

Originally Posted by chele123

Which supports the idea that immigrants should assimilate into their new country!

Except if they are here illegally. Then they should go home.