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Citizens’ preferences for tackling xenophobic violence in an African context: A South African case study.
This study can be used to design strategies to build public support for effective antixenophobia interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - February 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A mixed-methods approach to understanding complex risk among newcomer Latina immigrant adolescents.
Recently arrived newcomer immigrant Latina adolescents experience the intersecting challenges of acculturative adjustment and rapid developmental changes. In particular, the economic struggles facing many newcomer families may pose significant risk to Latina adolescents’ well-being, given their increasing roles and responsibilities within the family. Given the rapid increase in Latina youth arriving in the United States in recent years, more research is needed to better understand the impact of multiple risk factors on their psychological and behavioral health. To address this gap, this study used a mixed-methods approac...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Is engineering for me?”: Examining Latinas’ narratives of resilience and agency to confront enduring struggles and challenges in undergraduate engineering studies.
This study, however, focuses largely on the narratives of 3 participants who provided thick descriptions of their experiences, and the strongest emergent theme was the adversity faced by Latinas, which was manifested in a variety of ways largely due to the historical structure of engineering as rigid and masculine. This posed a contentious climate for many of these Latinas, which this article illuminates to demonstrate the enduring and invisible symbolic violence of Latinas in engineering undergraduate studies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Hay Que Tener Fe: The challenge of being a Latina DACA college student.
This study applied Latino critical race theory to understand the experiences of Latina female college students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status. Our study took place prior to and immediately after the Trump administration announced the termination of DACA effective March 5, 2018. During this time of amplified uncertainty students shared their concerns and frustrations. The study focused on the experiences of DACA-mented Latinas as they navigated institutions of higher education. The most prominent themes reported were that participants were highly selective in their disclosure of their status; that...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Conociendo los Caminos: Testimonios of Latina doctoral students.
This study focused on understanding how these Latina doctoral students navigated academia. Testimonios were transcribed and coded through a Latino critical race theory lens. The main themes and subthemes that emerged from the analysis of the testimonios were the value of family (family as a support system, negotiating the role of family), the impact on mental health (coping with isolation, coping with the unknown), navigating the ivory tower (creating a supporting space, academia as gatekeepers), education as resistance (resisting the academic rhetoric, resisting the sociopolitical rhetoric), and testimonios as healing. Im...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Latina dreamers, the current political era, and what educational leaders need to know.
In this article we present thematic analyses of semistructured interviews with three Latina undergraduate students who are first-generation college and who also self-identify as “Dreamers” and as DACA recipients. The interview data used to inform this article stem from 2 larger qualitative studies in which we applied social constructivist epistemology to interpret the participants’ perspectives and experiences associated with their schooling. In addition, we discuss broadly the impact of the current political climate on the 3 participants’ lives, and how the intersectionality of racial oppression and social class i...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Political climate and sense of belonging in higher education: Latina undergraduates and mental health.
This study provides a unique contribution to the literature in empirically examining experiences of Latina emerging adults in identifying belonging as potential protective factor. Future research should investigate how to best facilitate sense of belonging among Latina undergraduates. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Tearing down walls: Meeting the challenges of Latinas in education and the labor force: Derribando muros: Enfrentando los desafíos de las latinas en la educación y la Fuerza Laboral.
This is part 2 of a 2-part special edition of Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology entitled The Challenge of Being Latina: Personal, Political, and Economic: Academic and Vocational Concerns. In this introduction we introduce the journal and provide a background on the unique intersection of race, sex, and socioeconomic status that Latinas inhabit. Further, we explore the challenges Latina students and workers face related the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, managing the academic pipeline, agricultural labor, documentation status, and managing an increasingly hostile political climate i...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Mutual radicalization and the coronavirus pandemic.
This issue of the journal includes Part 2 of a Special Section, The Challenge of Being Latina: Academic and Vocational Concerns. The Guest Editors have provided a lucid and informative introduction to the articles in this Special Section. The academic and vocational topics discussed are extremely timely, highlighting the challenges faced by immigrants and refugees as they struggle to integrate into their host society. This issue of the journal also includes two empirical studies and an article on practices. Gross and Maor (2020) report a study of Jewish and Palestinian nurses working together in a hospital in Israel. The e...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“I defeat those fears and start a new life”: Iraqi refugee students’ PTSD, wisdom, and resilience.
This study examines Iraqi Chaldean refugee students’ posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), wisdom, and resilience. Using quantitative measures, it looks at PTSD and resilience prediction with the cognitive, reflective, and affective wisdom dimensions and, using qualitative measures, how the students perceive their traumatic experiences and how they have overcome such difficulties using wisdom and resilience. The study examines 98 Chaldean Iraqi refugee high school students in the Detroit metropolitan area. It utilizes bivariate correlations and multiple regression analysis based upon survey data as well as individual and...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Protective factors in the face of political violence: The role of caregiver resilience and parenting styles in Palestine.
This study examined caregiver resilience and parenting styles as protective factors of the mental health of Palestinian children living in the West Bank. We hypothesized that: (a) higher caregiver resilience would be significantly associated with better mental health in children (caregiver reported), (b) authoritative parenting would be significantly associated with better mental health in children, and (c) both permissive and authoritarian parenting would be significantly associated with poorer mental health in children. Participants were 303 caregivers of primary schoolchildren in the city of Nablus, Palestine. Caregiver...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Disclosure of genocide experiences in Rwandan families: Private and public sources of information and child outcomes.
This study explored the cultural practices of Rwandan parents surrounding exposure of their children to accounts of genocide history in both the private and public realm, the age at which children were exposed to information from different sources, and the extent to which exposure moderated parent-reported child outcomes. A survey of 317 parents was conducted across each of Rwanda’s four provinces and Kigali City. Results found that parents disclosed the genocide openly with their children and that children were exposed to information about the genocide from the community. Parents tended to share stories at home before e...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Inclusion dilemmas in peacebuilding and dialogues in Ukraine.
This article aims to elucidate the reasons underlying the lack of inclusion of Ukrainians with “pro-Russian” political views in peacebuilding and dialogues in Ukraine. Based on an analysis of empirical data from interviews and focus groups, we argue that the following 4 factors contribute to patterns of willful and unwillful exclusion during facilitated dialogues: (a) the absence of a political will and a societal agenda for inclusion of people holding “pro-Russian” political views, (b) high security risks connected with Russian hybrid warfare, (c) difficulties in identifying this group and the loss of their agency...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Social Psychological Index for Transitional Political Reconciliation (SPITPR–5F).
This study explores the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Social Psychological Index for Transitional Political Reconciliation (SPITPR–5F) in a sample of 559 participants from Valparaíso, Chile. Exploratory factor analysis and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the invariance of the correlated 5-factor structure with respect to sex and age variables. The reconciliation index shows good levels of reliability (w = .91), and results support a correlated 5-factor model of political reconciliation. Similarly, the fit index indicates the validity of the model and supports its strict...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Koreans’ collective victim beliefs about Japanese colonization.
This article presents the first social psychological investigation of collective victim beliefs in Korea and contributes to the literature by integrating theoretical perspectives from appraisal theory and the collective victimhood literature, as well as expanding the diversity and complexity of collective victim beliefs. The current study also has practical implications for addressing strained relations between South Korea and Japan. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research