Search
Skip to Search Results- 19Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 19Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 3Toolkit for Grant Success
- 2Toolkit for Grant Success/Successful Grants (Toolkit for Grant Success)
- 1Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of
- 1Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Department of/Journal Articles (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
-
Culture and the healthy immigrant effect: a multiethnic study of Canadian immigrants' self-perceived health
DownloadSpring 2011
I present a qualitative study investigating the self-perceived health of recently arrived Canadian immigrants. The study develops health promotion’s understanding of culture as a social determinant of health, and conceptually locates it within a broader context of psychosocial factors. The study...
-
Different approaches to crosslingual focus groups: Lessons from a crosscultural community-based participatory research project
Download2015
Quintanilha, Maira, Thompson, Jessica, Mayan, Maira J., Bell, Rhonda C.
Focus groups are a useful data-generation strategy in qualitative health research when it is important to understand how social contexts shape participants’ health. However, when cross-lingual focus groups are conducted across cultural groups, and in languages in which the researcher is not...
-
Spring 2013
Immigrant women have many emotional, psychological, and/or cultural stressors that may influence their health. For some women, these stressors may only be present during the acculturation process, but for others they may continue throughout the remainder of their lives. Focused ethnography, as...
-
Exploring the leisure experiences and perceptions of acculturation of newcomer Chinese youth
DownloadFall 2011
This research explored the nature of the relationship between leisure experiences and perceptions of acculturation of newcomer Chinese youth. Employing interpretive description methodology, semi-structured interviews and a focus group elicited subjective description of leisure and acculturation...
-
Integrating Research on Acculturation into Organizational Scholarship: Two Empirical Studies and a Construct Development Effort
DownloadSpring 2017
The overarching objective of this dissertation is to offer a more comprehensive and profound understanding of how the concept of acculturation can be applied within scholarship on organizations. Through processes of acculturation, individuals experience affective, behavioural, and cognitive...
-
Latin American Canadian Immigrants' Leisure Travel Motivations and Settlement into Canadian Society
DownloadSpring 2015
Immigration is a major contributor to Canada’s ethnocultural diversity and continues to shape the socio-demographic landscape of Canada. The Latin American community is one such group contributing to these socio-demographic changes and is, notably, one of the fastest growing ethnic communities in...