In this article, we draw from Huston's (2000) 3-level model of marriage to provide an informed and integrative template for organizing current knowledge and guiding future inquiry into the study of marital well-being among a rapidly growing segment of the United States' population: low-income, Mexican-origin couples in the early years of parenthood. More specifically, we advocate for a dyadic a...

The primary aim in this study was to use a joint analysis approach to examine the association between longitudinal change of depressive symptoms and mortality in older Mexican Americans. The joint model was applied to data from the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (HEPESE), a seven year longitudinal study of communitydwelling elderly Mexican-Americans. De...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between acculturation, immigration, and prevalence of depression in older Mexican Americans. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis from a cohort study. SETTING Urban and rural counties of the Central Valley of Northern California. PARTICIPANTS One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine Latinos recruited from a population-based sample (85% Mexican Americans...

Mexican lime is one of the commercial citrus cultivars in the world, which is commonly used as a citrus rootstock in the southern regions of Iran. This cultivar is one of the most sensitive citrus cultivars to cold stress and is used as a cold-sensitive plant in many citrus studies. This study aimed to investigate the effect of melatonin (0 and 500 μM), mannitol (0 and 50 μM), acetic acid (0 an...

Noninjecting heroin use (NIU) is spreading among social networks of young Mexican American polydrug users. This article examines the influence of family and peer networks on NIU behavior and other drug practices and risks. This study delineates the extent to which a culturally relevant modification of the "network facilitation" theoretical approach can increase both a theoretical and practical ...

A Spanish-language translation of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III), normed in Mexico, is sometimes used when evaluating Spanish-speaking defendants in capital cases in order to diagnose possible mental retardation (MR). Although the manual for the Mexican test suggests use of the U.S. norms when diagnosing MR, the Mexican norms-which produce full-scale scores on average 12 p...