The impact of immigration on maternal separation anxiety and their relationship to toddler affect regulation.
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Title
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The impact of immigration on maternal separation anxiety and their relationship to toddler affect regulation.
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Identifier
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AAI3169951
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identifier
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3169951
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Creator
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Marrero, Letisha.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Peter Fraenkel
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Psychology, Developmental | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Abstract
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This study examined the impact of immigration on maternal separation anxiety. Participants were 30 first-generation Latina immigrants, who had children enrolled in a community Head Start program and who had participated in a larger study examining the transition from immigration to work. No new data were collected for the analysis undertaken for this project. This study included both qualitative and quantitative methods. Participants' responses to interview questions exploring their immigration history and sense of ongoing loss in the host country were first coded using a grounded theory approach to extract themes of immigration-based loss. Based on their particular collection of themes, participants were then rated on overall level of immigration-based loss, with ratings ranging from 1 to 3 (low to high). These ratings were then correlated with participants' responses on the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale (Hock, McBride & Gnezda, 1989) and an acculturation measure. It was hypothesized that a high degree of immigration-based loss would be positively correlated with high scores on maternal separation anxiety and negatively correlated with degree of acculturation to the host country. The data did not support these hypotheses. However, a significant negative correlation was found between degree of immigration-based loss and participants' employment-related separation concerns, a subscale of the Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale. Exploration into the relationship between maternal immigration experience and toddler affect regulation, as determined by coding a mother-child interaction and mother's responses on a scale measuring her child's ability to regulate affect, suggested that high degrees of immigration-based loss may affect a mother's ability to accurately assess her child's affect. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
