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Dunn, Marianne G.; O'Brien, Karen M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2009
This study examined the relative contributions of (a) gender, (b) perceived stress, (c) social support from family and significant other, and (d) positive and negative dimensions of religious coping to the prediction of the psychological health and meaning in life among 179 Central American immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala. Findings…
Descriptors: Coping, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries
Short, Jerome L.; Porro-Salinas, Patricia M. – 1996
The study applied a stress and coping model including acculturation to understanding the predictors of depressive symptoms, alcohol use, and life satisfaction of 108 native Salvadorans who immigrated to the United States in the past 5 years. Acculturation was negatively related to depression and alcohol use, and positively related to life…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Depression (Psychology)