TY - JOUR
T1 - Stressed and helping
T2 - The relations among acculturative stress, gender, and prosocial tendencies in Mexican Americans
AU - McGinley, Meredith
AU - Carlo, Gustavo
AU - Crockett, Lisa J.
AU - Raffaelli, Marcela
AU - Stone, Rosalie A.Torres
AU - Iturbide, Maria I.
N1 - Funding Information:
Data collection was supported by grants to Marcela Raffaelli and Gustavo Carlo from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Office of the Research Council, Institute for Ethnic Studies, and Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative. The authors thank Scott Roesch and Gabriel Holguien for facilitating data collection. Data analysis and manuscript preparation was supported by Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical Research Enhancement Funds. Meredith McGinley is now with the University of Illinois at Chicago. Address correspondence to Meredith McGinley, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; [email protected] (e-mail).
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - Available evidence suggests that stress is not necessarily linked to negative outcomes and, in fact, may lead to increases in sympathy and helping. In this study, we examined whether acculturative stress was associated with prosocial tendencies in a sample of 148 Mexican American college students (M age = 23.05 years; 99 women). Participants completed measures of acculturative stress, sympathy, and prosocial tendencies. The relations between acculturative stress and prosocial tendencies were generally positive but varied by the type of helping and gender. Higher levels of acculturative stress were linked to greater emotional, dire, compliant, and anonymous prosocial tendencies, as well as with fewer costly (altruistic) prosocial tendencies. Sympathy mediated the relations between acculturative stress and prosocial tendencies for men only.
AB - Available evidence suggests that stress is not necessarily linked to negative outcomes and, in fact, may lead to increases in sympathy and helping. In this study, we examined whether acculturative stress was associated with prosocial tendencies in a sample of 148 Mexican American college students (M age = 23.05 years; 99 women). Participants completed measures of acculturative stress, sympathy, and prosocial tendencies. The relations between acculturative stress and prosocial tendencies were generally positive but varied by the type of helping and gender. Higher levels of acculturative stress were linked to greater emotional, dire, compliant, and anonymous prosocial tendencies, as well as with fewer costly (altruistic) prosocial tendencies. Sympathy mediated the relations between acculturative stress and prosocial tendencies for men only.
KW - Acculturative stress
KW - Gender differences
KW - Mexican American
KW - Prosocial behavior
KW - Sympathy
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U2 - 10.1080/00224540903365323
DO - 10.1080/00224540903365323
M3 - Article
C2 - 20196528
AN - SCOPUS:77950350024
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 150
SP - 34
EP - 56
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 1
ER -