Odette Alarcón
Biographic Data
| ID | 83553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Odette Alarcón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Odette |
| FAMILY NAME | Alarcón |
| SIGNATURE | ALARCÓN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Discrimination and Puerto Rican children's and adolescents' mental health
Two studies of Puerto Rican youths' development on the U.S. mainland examined the consequences of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination on mental health. In Study I, children were found to have a low likelihood of perceiving discrimination, whereas in Study 2, nearly half of the adolescent sample reported perceiving racial/ethnic discrimination. Although both groups scored high on multiple indicators of mental health, perceiving discrimination a…
The Color of My Skin
The Color of My Skin is an instrument developed to assess children's internalized idea (abstraction) of the color of their skin; their satisfaction with that color; the desire, if any, to change the color of their skin; and their affect regarding their skin color. The assessment is part of a questionnaire utilized in a 3-year longitudinal study that examines psychosocial development, physical health, and behavioral adjustment of Puerto Rican chil…
Puerto Rican Early Adolescents' Self-Esteem Patterns
This study examines self-esteem as a multidimensional construct in 1 Latino subgroup, Puerto Rican girls and boys during early adolescence, using Harter's (1985b) Self-Perception Profile for Children. The results show that in its English and Spanish versions-the latter developed by the present research team-the Self-Perception Profile for Children has adequate reliability for use with 13- to 14-year-old Puerto Rican youth living on the mainland. …
Psychological Acculturation
Most instruments designed to measure acculturation have relied on specific cultural behaviors and preferences as primary indicators of acculturation. In contrast, feelings of belonging and emotional attachment to cultural communities have not been widely used. The Psychological Acculturation Scale (PAS) was developed to assess acculturation from a phenomenological perspective, with items pertaining to the individual’s sense of psychological attac…
Stereotyped perceptions of adolescents' health risk behaviors
Are youths particularly youths of color engaged in high levels of health risk behaviors and is public perception regarding these behaviors accurate? In answer to the 1st question 2 analytic samples were drawn: (a) 14-15-year-old 9th graders (N = 94) from the Puerto Rican Adolescent study conducted in the greater Boston area and (b) 14-15-year-old 9th graders (N = 876) from the Massachusetts 1995 Youth Risk Behavior (YRB) survey. The samples were …
Stereotyped perceptions of adolescents' health risk behaviors
The Dual-Focus Approach to Creating Bilingual Measures
The dual-focus approach to creating bilingual research protocols requires a bilingual/bicultural research team, including indigenous researchers from the cultures being studied. The presence of indigenous researchers as full and equal members of the research team can guard against an unexamined exportation of ideas and methods developed in one culture to other cultural/linguistic communities. The team develops the research plan and a research pro…
Albumin Mexico ( Al Me ) in the Guatemalan highlands
The examination of the sera of two samples of Guatemalans (total n = 386) revealed the presence of albumin Mexico ( Al Me ) among unrelated individuals from the western highlands near the Mexican border. The frequency in the putatively less admixed sample, from Quiché, was 0.008. This is the first report of albumin polymorphism among American Indians south of Mexico. The presence of the Al Me allele among Indians of the Guatemalan highlands argue…
Discrimination and Puerto Rican children's and adolescents' mental health
Two studies of Puerto Rican youths' development on the U.S. mainland examined the consequences of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination on mental health. In Study I, children were found to have a low likelihood of perceiving discrimination, whereas in Study 2, nearly half of the adolescent sample reported perceiving racial/ethnic discrimination. Although both groups scored high on multiple indicators of mental health, perceiving discrimination a…
Puerto Rican Early Adolescents' Self-Esteem Patterns
This study examines self-esteem as a multidimensional construct in 1 Latino subgroup, Puerto Rican girls and boys during early adolescence, using Harter's (1985b) Self-Perception Profile for Children. The results show that in its English and Spanish versions-the latter developed by the present research team-the Self-Perception Profile for Children has adequate reliability for use with 13- to 14-year-old Puerto Rican youth living on the mainland. …
The Dual-Focus Approach to Creating Bilingual Measures
The dual-focus approach to creating bilingual research protocols requires a bilingual/bicultural research team, including indigenous researchers from the cultures being studied. The presence of indigenous researchers as full and equal members of the research team can guard against an unexamined exportation of ideas and methods developed in one culture to other cultural/linguistic communities. The team develops the research plan and a research pro…
Stereotyped perceptions of adolescents' health risk behaviors
Are youths particularly youths of color engaged in high levels of health risk behaviors and is public perception regarding these behaviors accurate? In answer to the 1st question 2 analytic samples were drawn: (a) 14-15-year-old 9th graders (N = 94) from the Puerto Rican Adolescent study conducted in the greater Boston area and (b) 14-15-year-old 9th graders (N = 876) from the Massachusetts 1995 Youth Risk Behavior (YRB) survey. The samples were …
Albumin Mexico ( Al Me ) in the Guatemalan highlands
The examination of the sera of two samples of Guatemalans (total n = 386) revealed the presence of albumin Mexico ( Al Me ) among unrelated individuals from the western highlands near the Mexican border. The frequency in the putatively less admixed sample, from Quiché, was 0.008. This is the first report of albumin polymorphism among American Indians south of Mexico. The presence of the Al Me allele among Indians of the Guatemalan highlands argue…
Albumin Mexico ( Al Me ) in the Guatemalan highlands
The examination of the sera of two samples of Guatemalans (total n = 386) revealed the presence of albumin Mexico ( Al Me ) among unrelated individuals from the western highlands near the Mexican border. The frequency in the putatively less admixed sample, from Quiché, was 0.008. This is the first report of albumin polymorphism among American Indians south of Mexico. The presence of the Al Me allele among Indians of the Guatemalan highlands argue…
Psychological Acculturation
Most instruments designed to measure acculturation have relied on specific cultural behaviors and preferences as primary indicators of acculturation. In contrast, feelings of belonging and emotional attachment to cultural communities have not been widely used. The Psychological Acculturation Scale (PAS) was developed to assess acculturation from a phenomenological perspective, with items pertaining to the individual’s sense of psychological attac…
Stereotyped perceptions of adolescents' health risk behaviors
Are youths particularly youths of color engaged in high levels of health risk behaviors and is public perception regarding these behaviors accurate? In answer to the 1st question 2 analytic samples were drawn: (a) 14-15-year-old 9th graders (N = 94) from the Puerto Rican Adolescent study conducted in the greater Boston area and (b) 14-15-year-old 9th graders (N = 876) from the Massachusetts 1995 Youth Risk Behavior (YRB) survey. The samples were …
Stereotyped perceptions of adolescents' health risk behaviors
The Dual-Focus Approach to Creating Bilingual Measures
The dual-focus approach to creating bilingual research protocols requires a bilingual/bicultural research team, including indigenous researchers from the cultures being studied. The presence of indigenous researchers as full and equal members of the research team can guard against an unexamined exportation of ideas and methods developed in one culture to other cultural/linguistic communities. The team develops the research plan and a research pro…
The Color of My Skin
The Color of My Skin is an instrument developed to assess children's internalized idea (abstraction) of the color of their skin; their satisfaction with that color; the desire, if any, to change the color of their skin; and their affect regarding their skin color. The assessment is part of a questionnaire utilized in a 3-year longitudinal study that examines psychosocial development, physical health, and behavioral adjustment of Puerto Rican chil…
Puerto Rican Early Adolescents' Self-Esteem Patterns
This study examines self-esteem as a multidimensional construct in 1 Latino subgroup, Puerto Rican girls and boys during early adolescence, using Harter's (1985b) Self-Perception Profile for Children. The results show that in its English and Spanish versions-the latter developed by the present research team-the Self-Perception Profile for Children has adequate reliability for use with 13- to 14-year-old Puerto Rican youth living on the mainland. …
Discrimination and Puerto Rican children's and adolescents' mental health
Two studies of Puerto Rican youths' development on the U.S. mainland examined the consequences of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination on mental health. In Study I, children were found to have a low likelihood of perceiving discrimination, whereas in Study 2, nearly half of the adolescent sample reported perceiving racial/ethnic discrimination. Although both groups scored high on multiple indicators of mental health, perceiving discrimination a…
Developmental psychology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Puerto rican (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (3 works)