OBJECTIVES Assessment of the predictive ability of the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) domains (orientation to time, orientation to place, registration, attention and calculation, recall, language, and visual construction) for falls in Mexican American elders tested the hypothesis that low MMSE domain scores are related to an increased number of falls. DESIGN Data were obtained from the 1998-9...

Social identity is a constant and permanent process that changes social situations based on individual experiences in these situations. Religious and ethnic identities are two dimensions of social identity that are of great importance in Iranian society. Due to the ethnic diversity in Iran and the proximity of ethnic cultures through migration, ethnic identity is noticeable. Religious identity ...

The current study explored how individual differences in endorsement of aggressive behaviors and thoughts relate to individual levels of tolerance and prejudice toward immigrants and established prejudice correlates such as social dominance orientation (SDO) and ethnic out-groups ratings among adolescents. Participants (N = 141; Age M = 16.08, 68% girls) completed the Readiness for Interpersona...

Abstract Research has tended to document smoking disparities separately by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, with relatively less work examining the intersections of both identities. As such, we draw on data from 2010 Social Justice Sexuality Project demonstrate how cigarette manifest across detailed orientation among a sample U.S. adults. Findings logistic regression models that adjust fo...

The relationships between life satisfaction, acculturation, acculturative stress, ethnic identity, and gender role attitudes among Armenian American women were explored. The convenience sample of 204 women of Armenian descent (ages 18 -77 years) residing in Southern California and in Phoenix, Arizona, completed a survey including the following measures: Demographic questions, the Armenian Ethni...

Leadership research is often silent about how race and ethnicity influence the exercise of leadership and does not include the experiences of racial/ethnic minority leaders. Leaders from five racial/ethnic groups within the US were surveyed on their endorsement of leadership dimensions as defined by the GLOBE studies and the influence of their race, ethnicity and gender on the exercise of leade...

Body dissatisfaction is normative among European American women, and involvement with predominant culture or linking self-worth to weight may intensify the association between body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness for women of color. Our study investigated whether orientation to other ethnic groups (Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure) and weight-based contingency of self-worth moderate th...

180 Abstract — Many researches have been conducted to elucidate the decision process of consumers. This is mainly because of the fluidity of consumers’ decision process since it evolves over time and space, as well as in different environments such as culture and race. This study attempts to focus on a single community with dual ethnic groups, i.e. the Malays and the Chinese in Malaysia. Thus, ...

Some Matters of Style 17 Omit Needless Words 17 Avoid Metacomments on the Writing 18 Use Repetition and Parallel Construction 19 Jargon 20 Voice and Self-Reference 20 Tense 21 Avoid Language Bias 21 Research Participants 21 Sex and Gender 21 Racial and Ethnic Identity 22 Sexual Orientation 22 Disabilities 23 Common Errors of Grammar and Usage 23 Compared with versus Compared to 23 Data 23 Diffe...

an evaluation of the prevalence of immune status to rubella was made among 1151 premarital and preconceptional counseled females (17-40 years old) visiting the genetic clinic in tehran. population of tehran, like any other large city, consists of mixtures of various communities and ethnic groups in the country. the method of analysis was rubella haemagglutination inhibition (hl.) test. immunity...