Exploring the hypothesis of ethnic practice as social capital: Violence among Asian/Pacific Islander youth in Hawaii

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 506-524

  Spencer, James H ^a   Irwin, Katherine ^a   Umemoto, Karen N ^a   Garcia Santiago, Orlando ^a   Nishimura, Stephanie T ^b   Hishinuma, Earl S ^b   Choi Misailidis, Soojean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Pacific Islanders; Ethnicity; Health disparities; Social capital; Youth violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FILIPINO; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK REDUCTION; SAMOAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CRIME; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HAWAII; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 71049166724     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764008094429     Document Type: Article

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