Affective Meaning among Hispanic and Mainstream Navy Recruits.

Abstract

An exploratory study of the evaluation, potency, activity, and familiarity judgments of samples of Mainstream and Hispanic male, Navy recruits, concerning 50 concepts, showed a great deal of overlap in the meaning of these concepts held by these samples. The few findings of the present study, when contrasted with the numerous findings of cultural differences identified in our studies of norms and roles suggest the hypothesis that acculturation has the effect of shifting the meaning of concepts towards convergence with the meanings they have in the Mainstream but has lesser effects on norms and role perceptions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123521

Entities

People

  • C. Harry Hui
  • Gerardo Marin
  • Harry C. Triandis

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • Hispanics
  • Military Research
  • Minority Groups
  • Naval Operations
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design