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How do social class affect the status and education of a child
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Janaina Siguencia March 5, 2014 PSY-231 Developmental Psychology Professor Pickens Annotated Bibliography People come to the United States from all over the world with a different culture and adapted to their own perceptions of living. However, even though we live in a diverse country it is still difficult for everyone to adapt because our ways are not the same as the country of others. It is the most difficult for children to accommodate into new environments during development and as immigrant parents there isn’t much they could do either to help because they have to learn of the new ways themselves. There are some in some cases where you would rarely see a girl fully covering her face, while most Muslims, are required to wear Hijabs because of their religion. So for children to be stared at and made fun of in school is very difficult to deal with and could lead to other psychological issues. Is the behavior of Muslim children that come from immigrant families affected by living in non-diverse areas of the United States? Or do they fit right in just like others immigrants of this country. This can be measured by conducting a research based on Muslim immigrant parents and their children in schools such as using surveys and questionnaires for Muslim girls in middle school ages ranging from 11-14 years old. Article 1 Delgado, M. Y., Killoren, S. E., & Updegraff, K. A. (2013). Economic hardship and Mexican-origin adolescents’ adjustment: Examining adolescents’ perceptions of hardship and parent–adolescent relationship quality. Journal Of Family Psychology, 27(5), 827-837. doi:10.1037/a0033737 A. According to this article, the research question arises from adolescents of Mexican-origin and economic hardship families to learn why t... ... middle of paper ... ...is a negative effect in the American orientation on adolescents. The also examined the indicators for adolescent adjustment, depression, and academic performance by looking at their test scores. These measures provided the view to the acculturation discrepancy hypothesis. The findings also supported that examining is needed specifically in the family as it serves as a mechanism to the relationship for family acculturation discrepancy. D. This is important to my research question because all findings, play an important role, contribute to the adolescents relationship with the family in hard times and stress that comes from the mother or father and one problem lead to another. Another problem potentially linked to the adolescents’ adjustment was the adolescents’ knowing that the family was going through an economic or educational adjustment hardship.