Arab Americans are a rapidly growing population in the United States; however, sparse research exists that examines their mental health experiences. As such, this study investigated factors influencing mental health with the Arab American population in the United States. There i…
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The dissertation is divided into three manuscripts. The first manuscript reviews the literature on HTN status in Arab countries and identifies promising areas for future research and interventions. This review of literature revealed that HTN is prevalent among Arabs and supporte…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore if September 11 had an influence on the relations between non-Arab and Arab Americans in Detroit. The data of the study were collected from 10 participants, five non-Arab and five Arab Americans. Through the i…
This study examined Arab Americans' use of the Internet as a functional alternative to traditional U.S. mainstream media. The study employed the theory of the uses and gratifications to understand Arab Americans' most salient motive for using the Internet, and whether the Intern…
A surprising number of women from the Levant who came to the United States between 1878 and 1930 were educated women. The women from this region, even those who were uneducated, were remarkably successful in adapting to their new environment when compared with immigrant women fr…
Purpose. The aims of this study are to develop and examine the psychometric properties of a 48-item The Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes, & Beliefs Scale (C-KABS), to evaluate the Cancer Screening Action Model (C-SAM), and to generate knowledge regarding the attributes of cancer scre…
This dissertation explored how members of an imagined community, a nation, negotiate their national identity and belonging on newspaper opinion pages in times of crisis. It took a textual analysis approach to examine opinion discourses of Arab-Americans (letters to the editor, e…
Screening reduced the incidence rate for colorectal cancer (CRC) by 3% annually during 1998-2001; yet screening rates remain low. CRC continues to be the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the third cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Studies showed CRC incidence increased …
A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted with adult Arab Americans (N = 297) using self-report to explore the relationships between their acculturation, perceived discrimination, health, and health behaviors. The study was guided by an integrated framewo…
Tobacco use is prevalent in the Middle East, and relatively, high rates of smoking behaviors are reported in the immigrant populations from this region. This study examined tobacco use in association with health beliefs and acculturation status among a convenience sample (N=132)…
This study investigated Arab American immigrants' use of the Arabic satellite channels in light of a uses and gratifications model. The study investigated reasons people use satellite broadcasting and explored differences between viewers and non-viewers of this new medium across…
Despite the extensive research on smoking, it is still considered one of the highest causes of deaths in the U.S. Although Arab Americans came from countries where smoking ratios are among the highest in the world, very limited information is available about their smoking patter…
The findings show that deviance does play some role in the news coverage of Arab-Americans, but the role is not as strong as theory would predict. Contrary to the prediction by the theories of influence on mass media content by Shoemaker and Reese, the study found that an increa…
This thesis explores the experience of the German-speaking people who have immigrated to the United States of America. It relates the history of German immigration including the first trickles of immigrants, the first settlements, mass immigration to America, and immigration in …
This study explored the language practices and attitudes towards Arabic of Arab American parents (N=94) and examined associations between perceived racism and language practices and attitudes. Self-identified Arab American parents with at least one child between the ages of 5 an…
An exploratory mixed-methods design was used to shed light on the relationship between acculturative styles of Arab American mother/adolescent dyads and outcome measures (symptoms and conflict). In addition, the acculturation gap between Arab American immigrant parents and their…
This thesis explores Arab-American authorship and the specific literary and authorial strategies that these writers use to navigate and narrativize issues of transnationalism, cultural hybridization, and identities in motion. I hypothesize that Arab-American authorship is charac…
This study examined perceptions of Arab American parents of children with special needs regarding communication with the school and professionals who work with their children. The Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States and had students with sp…
This dissertation is a study of the political behavior of Arab Americans based on the Detroit Arab American Study of 2003. It examines the dependent variables of voting, writing to politicians and donating money to political campaigns. The independent variables include two socio…