Browsing by Author "Talavera, David"
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Item Stress and Health Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities: The Role of Cultural Mismatch(2017-05) Talavera, David; Walker, Rheeda L.; Zvolensky, Michael J.; Fan, Weihua; Yoshida, HanakoStress is a strong risk factor for poor health outcomes and is widely regarded as a main culprit in the alarming rates of health disparities among ethnoracial minorities (Schneiderman, Ironson, and Siegel, 2005). In order to better understand the association between stress and poor health, it is crucial to examine the role of contextual factors (Todorova, et al., 2013) in ethnoracial minority populations. One phenomenon that can potentially shed light on the association between stress and health is that of “cultural mismatch,” which posits that individuals experience psychological distress when their cultural values, customs, and beliefs are incongruent with their environmental context (Halpern-Felsher et al., 1997). Although previous studies have shown that cognitive vulnerabilities mediate the association between stress and health (Manack et al., 2013), no studies to the best of my knowledge have accounted for cultural mismatch in this stress to poor health process. Thus, the current study examined if the extent to which cognitive vulnerability mediates the stress to poor health process is contingent on differing levels of independent self-construal among ethnoracially diverse individuals. The results showed that when predicting health perception, both the overall model (R2= 0.26, df = 5, 462, F = 32.21, p < .0001) and the moderated mediation were significant (b=0.058, SE=0.035, 95% CI [0.002, 0.143]). Further inspection of the interaction showed that the association between stress and cognitive vulnerabilities was stronger for those with lower levels of independent self-construal (b = 3.61, t = 5.22, p < .001) relative to persons who reported higher independent self-construal (b = 1.24, t= 2.64, p < .001).Item The Impact of Discrimination in Relation to Suicide Ideation among 1st and 2nd Generation Asian American Individuals: The Moderating Role of Religiosity(2017-10-12) Essa, Saman; Talavera, David; Hong, JudyAvailable literature suggests that Asian Americans are more likely to develop suicidal thoughts compared to White/European Americans (Kisch, Leino, Silverman, 2005). Additionally, existing research indicates that suicide ideation manifests differentially based on self-reported measure of religiosity (Koenig, McCullough, Larson, 2001). Studies demonstrate a clear link between discrimination and suicide ideation across racial/ethnic minorities (Gomez, Miranda, Polanco, 2011). This study examined how the association between discrimination and suicide ideation differed as a function of religiosity for multi-generational Asian Americans. The data showed that as discrimination increased, those with lower levels of religiosity experienced higher levels of suicidal ideation. These findings are in line with previous research showing discrimination being directly and indirectly associated with suicide ideation (Walker, Salami, Carter, & Flowers, 2014) among ethno-racial minority populations.