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This study utilized focus groups to assess the perceived needs and interests for marriage education among single and married Latino individuals residing in Utah County, Utah as well as the identification of common themes and differences for this population. Male and female groups at various points in the marital developmental life stage were studied including high school students (15-18 years of age), single never married young adults (19-30 years of age), committed (engaged or cohabiting) adults, married persons recently transitioning to parenting, and married people with children. The sample consisted of 10 groups, 5 female and 5 male. In addition, a professional group consisting of professionals who are in daily contact with the Latino population also participated (N=12). A total of 53 Latino individuals and 12 professionals were interviewed in the focus groups. The participants were asked 14 open-ended questions to assess various elements of marriage education including content, cost, convenient locations, sources of information, perceived barriers to getting services as well as strategies on how to get people involved in marriage education programs. The data from the focus groups were analyzed using inductive qualitative methods. The findings showed that most females were concerned about domestic violence and infidelity as topics in marriage education while males were more concerned about having financial stability, improving communication skills and increase their parenting skills. These results support the importance of conducting focus groups as a way to assess marriage education needs and interests of the Latino population. Limitations for future research are discussed, implications for marriage education programming for Latino couples as well as implications for marriage and family therapists.

Hispanic students make up 12% of the enrollment in Utah elementary and secondary schools but only 3.4% of the enrollment at Utah's colleges and universities, according to Alemán and Rorrer (2006). The intervention Latinos in Action (LIA) seeks to increase high school completion and college graduation rates among emergent bilingual Latinos by involving them as paraprofessional literacy tutors for younger Spanish-speaking students. This dissertation, written in article-ready style, reports on two studies of the program. Study 1, a survey of 128 high school students, found that those involved in the service and literacy program scored higher than their bilingual Latino peers who were not involved on two dimensions of high school engagement: level of education desired and feelings that school contributed to increased self-understanding. Study 2, a coding analysis of 200 LIA student journals, demonstrated a high level of reflectivity across three emerging themes: satisfaction with the tutee's progress, growth in leadership and social skills, and increased drive for school success. Implications for educators and program administrators are discussed. Although intended for separate publication, the studies inform each other in important ways. For example, the qualitative finding in Study 1 that LIA students more than their non-LIA peers view school as important to their self-understanding correlates with the qualitative finding in Study 2 that 80% of LIA journal writers employed self-reflective language to describe experiences in LIA—indicating perhaps that elements of the program prompt the kind of thinking and communication that enhances understanding of self. Similarly, the new confidence and determination to succeed in school expressed by LIA journal writers supports the Study 1 finding that LIA students target higher levels of post-secondary education than do their non-LIA peers. Specific journal entries provide a window into how that growth in ambition comes to be. Within the hybrid dissertation format, Appendix A provides a literature review linking both studies. Appendix B gives detailed coding methods for Study 2. Appendix C combines the findings of both studies in a general discussion.

The present study explores how children of Hispanic immigrants (CHIs) perceive life in the U.S., and how they view cultural diversity. Questionnaires were given to 92 non-U.S. born CHIs and one of their non-U.S. born Hispanic immigrant parents (HIPs) who have lived in the U.S. between 1 and 17 years (M yrs = 8.43); their views of the U.S. were assessed along with their acceptance of diversity, acculturative stress, and levels of acculturation. In this study, I found that CHIs generally hold positive views of the lives in the U.S. and also hold favorable views toward cultural diversity. Furthermore, this study hypothesized that HIPs significantly influence their CHIs attitudes toward both the U.S. and toward cultural diversity. Overall, my findings validated the theoretically based expectation that demonstrates the power of parental attitudes on their children’s attitudes. A significant correlation was found between HIPs’ attitudes toward the U.S. and their children’s attitudes, as well as, CHIs’ attitudes toward the U.S. correlating significantly with their perceptions of their parents’ attitudes toward the U.S. Multiple and stepwise regressions further confirmed the importance of parental attitudes toward their children’s attitudes toward the U.S. and their openness to cultural diversity. Findings from this study provide implications for future research.

The ever-increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its associated healthcare costs in the United States has led to our healthcare system's need for cost-effective health resources and chronic disease management. The interventions of Community Health Workers (CHWs) can cost-effectively improve population health and prevent the unnecessary utilization of some medical services especially in rural, low-income, minority populations, where there is often limited access to healthcare. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the number of total CHWs in rural counties and the mean diabetes-related preventable hospitalization rates in Latino patients diagnosed with diabetes in those rural counties. The main goal of this research study is to contribute to the existing literature about the importance of CHWs especially in rural counties and the effect their presence has on diabetes-related preventable hospitalizations. Quantitative rural county data sets were analyzed to determine the correlation between the number of CHWs per rural county and the rate of diabetes-related preventable hospitalizations per rural county. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, this research project was modified to be completed in a timely manner. A statistically insignificant moderately negative linear relationship was found between the two variables. Therefore, there was not enough statistical evidence in the sample to say that this correlation exists in the rural America population. Future research is needed to investigate this relationship more thoroughly.

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Through ethnography, I examine how hip-hop’s expressive forms are being used as the raw materials of everyday life by residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, home to what many regard as one of the most stylistically prolific, politically charged, and racially diverse hip-hop “scenes” in the world. This focus on regional specificity provides a greater understanding of the impact hip-hop is having on the ground, as an aspect of localized lived practice. Throughout, I make the case for the importance of ethnographically grounded localized research on U.S. hip-hop, which is surprisingly still relatively rare. Most scholars simply stress its continuity within a set of deterritorialized Diasporic African and African-American verbal-art traditions. My aim is not to contest this assertion, but to add to the body of knowledge about one of the most significant cultural inventions of the twentieth century by exploring hip-hop’s racial heterogeneity and its regional specificity. Acknowledging this kind of diversity allows us to reconceive what hip-hop is and how it matters in U.S. society beyond the ways it is usually framed: as either an oppositional form of black-vernacular culture or a co-opted and corrupted commodity form that reinscribes hegemonic values more than it actually contests them. Examining hip-hop within a specific, regionally delineated community reveals how hip-hop’s role in American life is more nuanced and complex. It is neither a pure vernacular expression of an oppressed class nor merely a cultural commodity imposed upon consumers and alienated from producers. In the Bay Area, hip-hop “heads” simultaneously consume mass-produced rap while producing homespun forms of music, dance, slang, fashion, and folklore. Through these forms, they construct individual and group identities that register primarily in expressive, affective terms. These novel cultural identities complicate rigid social markers of race, gender, and class; more specifically, they challenge the widely held perception that hip-hop is solely the terrain of inner-city young African-American men. More fundamentally, a sense of belonging is engendered through localized modes of expression and embodied style that manifest through shared practices, discourses, texts, symbols, locales, and imaginaries. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrea Sampaio Volpe.pdf: 893408 bytes, checksum: 4388d284fb62ccf2cc3e889e1797ddf9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-09 / This dissertation, in regard to Portuguese language field, has as its theme the study of the etymon (word root) of the Greek and Latin languages employed on a more frequent basis in the medical discursive domain. The objectives are to contribute to the studies at the Etymology field, aiming at increasing the expressive capacity as well as the degree of accuracy in the use of medical terminology of Portuguese language upon the Greek and Latin etymon knowledge. For that purpose, the most frequent terms of the Dermatology, Cardiology and Oncology specialities have been looked up in three dictionaries, in order to gain a broader understanding of their morphosemantic elements (lexemes, prefixes and suffixes), enabling the deduction of their meanings grounded on the etymological knowledge. This study has been predicated on the basis of theoretical studies developed in Terminology and Lexicology (Mario Viaro, Lídia Almeida Barros, Maria Tereza Biderman, Maria da Graça Krieger e Maria José Finatto) on the principles of the Portuguese Etymology and Morphology (Celso Cunha e Lindley Cintra; Antônio Sandmann). The obtained results indicated that: a) the Greek and Latin lexemes present a high degree of transparency in relation to their etymological meanings; therefore, facilitating the language users comprehension; b) the highest productivity in the etymon lies in the affixes, that is, there is a degree of polysemy in each of them, which justifies the semantic opacity in relation to the lexemes; c) as to the medical specialities, the scientific term presented a higher transparency in relation to their eponym. The main contribution of this study is, therefore, that the knowledge of etymological values presented in every morphic element of a term is paramount for the mastery of its signification / Este trabalho, situado na linha de história e descrição da língua, do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Língua Portuguesa, tem por tema o estudo dos étimos gregos e latinos na língua, empregados com maior frequência na formação de unidades lexicais terminológicas do português em uso no domínio discursivo da Medicina. Seus objetivos são contribuir com os estudos na área de Etimologia, visando ao aumento da capacidade expressiva e do grau de precisão no uso da terminologia médica mediante os conhecimentos dos étimos gregos e latinos. Para a realização desta pesquisa, selecionamos, a partir de três dicionários, termos científicos utilizados nas áreas de Cardiologia, Dermatologia e Oncologia que fazem uso desses étimos, a fim de analisar seus elementos morfossemânticos (lexemas, prefixos e sufixos), permitindo a dedução de seus significados a partir do conhecimento etimológico. Fundamentamos o trabalho em estudos teóricos desenvolvidos em Terminologia, Etimologia e Lexicologia, pautando-nos pelos autores Mario Viaro, Lídia Almeida Barros, Maria Tereza Biderman, Maria da Graça Krieger e Maria José Finatto; quanto à Morfologia do Português, recorremos a Celso Cunha e Lindley Cintra e Antônio Sandmann. Os resultados obtidos apontaram que: a) os lexemas gregos e latinos apresentam alto grau de transparência em relação a seus significados etimológicos, logo, de fácil compreensão por parte dos usuários da língua; b) a maior produtividade nos étimos está nos afixos, isto é, há um grau de polissemia, uma multiplicidade de sentidos na significação de cada um deles, o que justifica a opacidade semântica em relação aos lexemas; c) nas áreas da medicina, o uso do termo científico apresentou maior transparência em relação ao termo eponímico. A contribuição principal da pesquisa, portanto, é que o conhecimento dos valores etimológicos presentes em cada elemento mórfico de um termo é fundamental para o domínio de sua significação