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- Creator:
- Maldonado, Sergio
- Description:
- Research in gang desistance has been ignored by researchers in psychology. Although researchers have started examining the desistance process, the studies referenced present a deficiency model that ignores the character strengths that enables men to leave gangs. Gang desistance in this study is defined as the final and permanent cessation of all offenses and gang related-criminal activities. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study is to identify the character strengths of former Hispanic/Latino male gang members that facilitated their desistance from gang membership. Three questions we will be investigating are: 1) What are the specific strengths that promote desistance; 2) How did the strengths assist in desistance; and 3) Which strengths helped participants stay desisted? The sample is compromised of seven (N=7) former gang affiliated Hispanic/Latino males between the ages of 18-60 that were in a Southern Californian gang. The study is currently being analyzed thematically using Value in Action Classification (VIA-Classification) with preliminary findings being presented. Interviewees were asked about experiences that helped them desist gangs in order to investigate ways to develop character strength-based programs, a method commonly used in Counseling Psychology, for Hispanic/Latino males.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research, Presentation, and Abstract
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Cotter, Beverly
- Description:
- Heritage speakers of Spanish are individuals who were raised exposed to and speaking Spanish in their home but may have not received formal language training in an academic setting. Parallelly, heritage speakers also acquire the language of the environment and for the case of heritage speakers in Southern California, the language of the environment in English. Previous literature has shown that native speakers of Spanish are sensitive to specific violations of grammatical structures, such as gender and number marking on pronouns (Rossi, Kroll, & Dussias 2014). Their results revealed that native Spanish speakers showed the ‘P600 effect’, a positive ongoing wave that occurs 400-900 ms after having been exposed to a grammatical violation (Rossi, Kroll, & Dussias 2014). The purpose of this study is to investigate the neurophysiological processing that heritage speakers of Spanish experience when exposed to specific grammatical anomalies, such as errors in clitic pronouns. It is hypothesized that if heritage Spanish speakers are sensitive to pronominal features in Spanish, heritage speakers should exhibit a P600 when exposed to grammatical violations, similar to native speakers. The participants recruited were right-handed and between the ages of 18 and 35, and considered themselves to be native, heritage speakers of Spanish. Both behavioral and electrophysiological data analysis was completed on each participant and the EEG data was analyzed at the group level to investigate what specific sensitivities participants have to grammatical processing. Preliminary results have shown that participants are in fact, more sensitive to clitic pronouns, but more analysis has to be done to make further conclusions.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Pham, Phuong
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the different components of language brokering. (LB), parent-child bonding, and mental health correlates (i.e., anxiety and depression) among Asian-American students. A sample of 201 Asian American college students attending two West Coast universities participated in the study. Two separate regression analyses were conducted using the variables of language brokering (experiences, places, things, and feelings), parent-child bonding as predictors of anxiety and depression. The results showed no significant predictors of depression. For anxiety, parent-child binding and language brokering places were significant negative predictors. Implications for future research and practice are also discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Piceno, Viviana, Maldonado Aguiñiga, Sergio, Coria, Monserrat, Williams, Kevon, and Navarro, Jesus
- Description:
- One of the main issues facing inner-city youth in the State of California is educational attainment. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2019), inner-city youth, have the lowest graduation rates compared to their suburban and rural counterparts. More specifically, Latino/a/x students, who make up 52% of all grade school and secondary school students in California (Pew Research Center, 2014), and African American students have some of the highest high school dropout rates and lowest college enrollment rates compared to their White peers (California Department of Education, 2018).
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Department of Psychology