Language Orientation and Mental Health Status among Persons of Mexican Descent

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6063752
AutoresVilma Ortiz (0000-0001-6345-3267, Centerfor Demography, University of Wisconsin), Carlos H Arce (National Chicano Council on Higher Education, Austin, Texas)
Ano1984
Volume6
Fascículo2
Páginas127-143
Data de publicação1984-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0739-9863 • E-ISSN: 1552-6364
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07399863840062004
OpenAlexW2040109745
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas10

This paper demonstrates that the relationship between language orientation and mental health varies by level of socioeconomic statuis. Amuong lower status Mexican Americans, whose language orienitation ranged primarily from exclusive Spanish use to the use of both languages equally, greater use of Spanish led to worse miienital health. Amuong higher status Chicanos, whose language orientation ranged primarily from exclusive English use to the use of both languages equally, greater use of English led to worse mental health. The major implication of this study is that Chicanos who incorporate behavioral aspects of American culture to the total exclusion of Mexican culture are less healthy while those who incorporate both cultures simultaneously are psychologically healthier

Environmental health · Ethnic group · Ethnolinguistics · Mental health · Mexican americans · Occupational safety and health · Orientation (vector space · Poison control · Population · Psychiatry · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Categorization, perception, and language · Cultural Differences and Values · Medicine · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Demography · Gerontology · Social Psychology