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Cultural styles and adolescent sex role perceptions: an exploration of responses to a value picture projective test
Twice a minority : Mexican American women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 164-172
By: Long, John M., Vigil, James Diego.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document examines by means of a projective test the cultural styles and adolescent sex role perceptions of two groups of Chicano students in the suburban areas east of Los Angeles, California. These students consist of those youths most Mexican in their cultural orientation and those most successfully integrated into the Anglo-American dominent culture of the vicinity. The test administered to these subjects is called the value picture projective test, which was first developed at UCLA by Walter P. Goldschmidt. The results seem to indicate that 'Mexican-oriented students indicate more traditional values in some regards but not in others; females differ from males on some issues but not others. In important cases, the Anglo-oriented Chicana differs in an opposite direction from the male than is the case among the Mexican-oriented adolescents. The picture that emerges lends little support for stereotyping the young Chicana (or her male coutnerpart) with traditional values but also differs from the imagery projected by some of the more radical Chacana feminists. The young women surveyed here project a blend of traditional role expectations, self-assertive intentions, and pragmatic values '(pp. 171-172).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- General sex restrictions
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- East Los Angeles, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John M. Long and Diego Vigil
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80011177
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans