Examined gender and racial differences in the grandparenting strengths and needs of working-class grandparents (N=192). Grandmothers perceived themselves as more involved in teaching their grandchildren and more successful in the grandparent role than did grandfathers. African-American grandparents considered themselves more involved in teaching…

Validated the Motivation Orientation scales of the Inventory of School Motivation (ISM) (M. Maher, 1984) across Navajo (n=760) and Anglo (n=1,012) students. Findings show that even though the ISM motivation orientation scales are applicable to students of different cultural backgrounds, meaningful cross-cultural comparisons should use the 30 items…

Investigates how ethnic identity is related to the issues that emerge in interethnic conversations. Examines issues related to communication satisfaction for African Americans and for European Americans and how relational closeness affects these relationships. Compares the two groups. (SR)

Examined the differences in alcohol consumption and related problems among Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic college students. Results showed that Caucasians had significantly higher quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption than African Americans or Hispanics. Implications of these findings are discussed. (TE)

This two-part investigation attempted to formulate culturally sensitive definitions of desirable and undesirable attachment behavior. Participants were 3 sociocultural groups of 16 mothers each: middle-class Anglo mothers, lower-class Anglo mothers, and lower-class Puerto Rican mothers living on the U.S. mainland. All mothers had at least 1 child…

A sleep questionnaire was administered to 80 Mexican American and 80 Anglo elderly, ages 60 to 96. The Mexican American sample reported poorer quality and longer latency of sleep, greater negative affect concerning dreams, longer sleep duration, less dream recall, more regular sleep, and more positive valence towards sleep. (JHZ)

Responses to Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale (SM) by 138 Mexican, 154 Mexican American, and 145 Anglo American undergraduates were analyzed to determine the scale's factorial structure. Clear differences existed in the structure of SM responses for the three ethnic/national groups showing that the meaning of subjects' responses was culturally…

In a pilot study, youth of a small town in the Southwest were surveyed regarding their drug and alcohol use. Mexican American students used drugs more heavily than Anglo students, and Mexican American females were especially heavy users. Compared to a national sample, the total small town sample used more drugs. (JHZ)