title: Implicit orientation toward family and school among bilingual Latino college students.
abstract: The authors examined the associations that underlie the orientations of bilingual Latino college students toward family and school. Participants completed, in English or Spanish, 3 implicit association tests assessing their attitude toward family vs. school, identifications with these concepts, and self-esteem. Results revealed a more positive attitude toward, and stronger identification with, family than school. Identification with family was stronger among participants who completed the study in English, suggesting self-definition in terms of distinctions from the context. Last, the more participants valued family over school and identified with family rather than school, the higher was their self-esteem. These findings shed light on the subtle, yet crucial, mechanisms by which cultural knowledge is incorporated in the self-concept of bilingual Latino college students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4611, USA. tdevos@sciences.sdsu.edu
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Devos
authors.forename: Karla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Blanco
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: Emilio C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Ulloa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D003469:Culture; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D012574:Schools; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities