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The Good Daughter Dilemma - Coggle Diagram
The Good Daughter Dilemma
Methods
Participants
The people who were participating were fifteen Lantina doctoral graduate students who attended universifies in Northern California
All participants had families with strong familismo orientations
Findings
Integrators
Of the 15 participants, 9 of them were integrators, people who managed famil expectationsa dn obligations by communicating with family members about school
Integrators would have to constantly juggle with family and school expectations,trying to meet demands of both parties. Integrators received more support from family members and are highly bicultural.
Integrators actively use their everyday experiences to fuse their social identities
Separators
6 of the 15 participants were separators, people who kept family and school separate to minimize tension and conflict
Separators aren't active in explaining school to their familes due to feelings of concern, protection, and stress.
Separators have a hard time juggling between both identities, having to choose one over the other. They manage each identiy differently.
Findings
Procedure
Participants were recruited from unviersty-sponsored events. The participants were to be interviewed with their identities protected
Interview Protocol
The participants were asked questions about their childhood, family relationships as graduate students, and comparisons between their familt relationships then and now.
Methods
Biculturalism
Helps understand how Latinas manage the conflicts between two different cultures
Levels of biculturalism can vary from individual to individual.
Those who retain the traditions and values of their culture and develop identification with the larger society are considered bicultural.
A bicultural perosn is able to embrace two cultures, and engage in typical behaviors of both cultures
Multiple Identities
Maintaining a distinct ethnic or cultural identity while adapting to dominant mainstream culture is a necessary survival skill when bicultural
Another identity, mestiza idenity, is developed from the process of constantly straddling two cultures in everyday life
This new identity is developed to manage two cultures are in conflict with one another
Chicana/Latina women are forcced to constantly switch between different social contexts and expectations that they have to adjust to.
The mestiza idenitity is characterized by a resiliency that allows people shift from focused thinking to divergent thinking.
Family Influences
Familismo focuses on cooperation between family members and interdependence
Due to strong family connections, Lantinas have a strong sense of obligations. These obligations include:
Language/cultural brokering
Financial contributoins
Sibling caretaking
Familismo requires prioritizing family over individual interests
Latinas have a hard time balancing school influences and family influences
Creates an expectation that "good Latina women" will alwats prioritize family needs above her own
Latinas often find themselves in a cultural bind between their school and family culture
Emphasizes loyalty, reciproccity, and solidarity
Strong identification and attachment to family,