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Buenavista, Tracy Lachica – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2010
There are 3.2 million Filipinos in the United States, arguably the largest Asian American ethnic group. Although 36.7% of Filipino adults have college degrees, which is much higher than their ethnic and racial counterparts, U.S. Filipino youth have fewer postsecondary opportunities. Filipino immigrant and second-generation youth exhibit high…
Descriptors: Race, Filipino Americans, Depression (Psychology), Immigrants
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Buenavista, Tracy Lachica; Jayakumar, Uma M.; Misa-Escalante, Kimberly – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2009
In this article, the authors offer a CRT (critical race theory) perspective of the prevailing representation of Asian Americans in higher education research and acknowledge the importance of recent studies that have begun to challenge notions of a monolithic Asian American educational experience through an examination of differences among Asian…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Filipino Americans, College Students, Critical Theory
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Alvarez, Alvin N.; Juang, Linda P. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2010
Although the literature on Asian Americans and racism has been emerging, few studies have examined how coping influences one's encounters with racism. To advance the literature, the present study focused on the psychological impact of Filipino Americans' experiences with racism and the role of coping as a mediator using a community-based sample of…
Descriptors: Coping, Filipino Americans, Asian Americans, Males
Bailon, Angelica Mae Andaya – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At more than three million, Filipina/o Americans are one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the United States. Yet, few studies have focused on the experiences of Filipina/o Americans in institutions of U.S. higher education. Given the increasing disparity in degree achievement between first and second generation Filipina/o Americans, this…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Filipino Americans, Qualitative Research, Barriers
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Hamilton, Hayley A.; Marshall, Lysandra; Rummens, Joanna A.; Fenta, Haile; Simich, Laura – Journal of School Health, 2011
Backgrouond: Research has increasingly identified the perception of school environment as an influential factor in children's lives. There has been sparse research attention, however, on the potential importance of parents' perceptions of school environment on child adjustment. This study examined the relationship between parents' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Aggression, Metropolitan Areas, Foreign Countries
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Garces-Bacsal, Rhoda Myra – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2010
The Philippine Thematic Apperception Test was administered to 22 intellectually superior Filipino children aged 4 to 9 years from private and public school settings as a means to explore their socio-emotional concerns. A grounded analysis of their narratives revealed the following themes: (a) importance of family relationships, (b) perceptions on…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Gifted, Projective Measures, Family Relationship
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Baker, Charlene K.; Hishinuma, Earl S.; Chang, Janice Y.; Nixon, David C. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study examined the relationship between stressful life events, drug use, and self-reported violence perpetration among 293 Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and Filipino adolescents. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with students in three high schools in Hawai'i. Stressful life events were delineated into three categories:…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Violence, Samoan Americans, Hawaiians
Cabalo, Jessica Villaruz – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Filipino students in Hawaii, like other ethnic minority students, continue to face academic struggles. Yet, there are few studies that have looked at the root of this issue for Filipino American students. While past research have focused on interventions through "culturally appropriate" instruction and multicultural curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Filipino Americans, Minority Group Students, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Bacarro, Filipina – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In career development research with racial/ethnic minorities, researchers have examined the cross-cultural validity of existing career constructs and theories, as well as culture-specific constructs such as acculturation. There has also been an increase in the examination of contextual variables, such as culture and race, in Asian American career…
Descriptors: Reputation, Career Choice, Psychology, Parent Child Relationship
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Nadal, Kevin L.; Pituc, Stephanie T.; Johnston, Marc P.; Esparrago, Theresa – Journal of College Student Development, 2010
Filipino Americans are one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States and the second largest Asian American/Pacific Islander ethnic group. However, there is little research focusing on the unique experiences of this group, particularly in higher education. This paper presents a qualitative exploration of the experiences of Filipino…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
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Burke, Nancy J.; Bird, Joyce A.; Clark, Melissa A.; Rakowski, William; Guerra, Claudia; Barker, Judith C.; Pasick, Rena J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
This article describes the influences of social context on women's health behavior through illustration of the powerful influences of social capital (the benefits and challenges that accrue from participation in social networks and groups) on experiences and perceptions of self-efficacy. The authors conducted inductive interviews with Latino and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Health Behavior, Social Environment, Social Networks
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is considered one of the major hubs nationally for Filipino-American studies. However, the fact that its core consists of only four tenured and tenure-track faculty members illustrates a historical disparity that exists among Asian Pacific Americans at U.S. colleges. Despite the diversity in…
Descriptors: Filipino Americans, Asian Studies, College Programs, Public Colleges
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Halagao, Patricia Espiritu – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2010
As Filipino Americans continue to struggle academically in our public schools, we must seek alternative frameworks to understand how their historical backgrounds and cultural identities have impacted their educational experience. Filipino Americans have a colonial history that has produced what scholars termed as "colonial mentality", a…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, United States History, Multicultural Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Russell, Stephen T.; Crockett, Lisa J.; Shen, Yuh-Ling; Lee, Sun-A – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Self-esteem and depression are fundamental psychological adjustment constructs in the study of adolescent well-being. Most measures of these constructs have been developed and validated using European American samples, and while the correlates and predictors of psychological adjustment have been examined in multiple cultural settings, no existing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Psychology, Filipino Americans, North Americans
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Pasick, Rena J.; Burke, Nancy J.; Barker, Judith C.; Joseph, Galen; Bird, Joyce A.; Otero-Sabogal, Regina; Tuason, Noe; Stewart, Susan L.; Rakowski, William; Clark, Melissa A.; Washington, Pamela K.; Guerra, Claudia – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
The behavioral theory constructs most often used to study mammography utilization--perceived benefit, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, intention, and subjective norms--have neither been developed nor sufficiently tested among diverse racial/ethnic subgroups. The authors explored these constructs and their underlying assumptions relating to…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Behavior Theories, Cancer, Females
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