title: Cherokee self-reliance and word-use in stories of stress.
abstract: This study examined the relationship between Cherokee self-reliance and related values expressed through word-use in stories of stress written by Cherokee adolescents. The overall aim of this pilot study was to test the feasibility of using cultural appropriate measurements for a larger intervention study of substance abuse prevention in Cherokee adolescents. A sample of 50 Cherokee adolescent senior high school students completed the Cherokee Self-Reliance Questionnaire and wrote their story of stress. The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program, a word-based computerized text analysis software, was used to report the percentage of words used in the selected word categories in relation to all the words used by a participant. Word-use from the stories of stress were found to correlate with Cherokee self-reliance.
authors.affiliation: Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, LA Building 226, 2912 College Avenue, Davie, FL 33314, USA. jlowe@fau.edu
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Riggs
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Henson
authors.forename: Tribal
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Elder
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liehr
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D008037:Linguistics; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009825:Oklahoma; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology*