Communication Networks of Linguistic Minorities: Who Talks to Whom About Health?
There is a considerable literature documenting the help-seeking pathways of patients. The early stages usually involve considerable negotiation within a person’s existing social network before outside help is sought. The team has previously developed a social network measure designed to assess linguistic characteristics of social networks (Ryder & Segalowitz, funded by Dialogue McGill) as well as a measure of second language health communication anxiety (Segalowitz & Ryder, funded by Dialogue McGill). The overarching goal of this project is to finalize the adaptation of these measures to Multilanguage settings, establish their psychometric properties, and explore the interrelations of these instruments in Francophone and Anglophone community samples. To this end the project has proposes the following objectives: (1) Adapt the acculturation battery for use in multilingual settings. (2) Translate the adapted acculturation battery into French (the other measures have already been translated). (3) Implement an online system to deliver the entire set of measures in either language. (4) Evaluate the overall set of measures in Francophone and Anglophone community samples.
Outputs:
Zhao, Y., Segalowitz, N., Voloshyn, A., Chamoux, E., & Ryder, A. G. (2021). Language Barriers to Healthcare for Linguistic Minorities: The Case of Second Language-specific Health Communication Anxiety. Health communication, 36(3), 334–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1692488
Ryder, A. G., Doucerain, M. M., Dere, J., Jurick, T., Zhou, B., & Zhou, X. (in press). From acculturation and psychopathology to cultural-clinical psychology. For M. Gelfand, C.-Y. Chiu, & Y.-Y. Hong (Eds), Advances in culture and psychology (vol. 8). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Chang, J., Pak, S., Doucerain, M. M., & Ryder, A. G. (2019, January). Validation of the AIM as a well-being and acculturation measurement tool [Poster presentation]. Sixth Annual Conference of the Centre for Clinical Research in Health, Montreal, QC, Canada
Tao, D., Doucerain, M. M., Segalowitz N., & Ryder, A. G. (2018, October). Social network and mental health help-seeking attitudes: The case of Chinese migrants in Montreal [Poster presentation]. 5th International Convention of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA
Tao, D., Doucerain, M. M., Segalowtiz N., & Ryder, A.G. (2018, July). What’s the relationship between one’s social network and mental health help-seeking attitudes? The case of Chinese migrants in Montreal. Paper presented at the 24th International Congress of International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Guelph, ON, Canada