Bicultural involvement and adjustment in Hispanic-American youths
Abstract This article discusses two dimensions of bicultural involvement and reports on the development and validation of a biculturalism and a cultural involvement scale for operationalizing both of these dimensions. Subjects for this study consisted of Hispanic-American junior high school students living in the Greater Miami area. Both scales proved to be reliable and valid for Cuban-Americans. Theoretical and clinical implications of biculturalism to adjustment are discussed, and data to substantiate this relationship are presented; bicultural youngsters were better adjusted than monocultural youngsters.
Using an original dataset which is derived from a content analysis of local television news broadcasts and political advertisements within a single American market during the entire 2008 election cycle, this paper analyzes the substantive differences between political content provided to viewers in Spanish versus English language news programs. Political and electoral implications are discussed.