It is estimated that the number of Iranians in the United States has reached 1.5 to 2 million since mass departures following the 1979 revolution, making it the largest population of Iranians in one place outside of Iran itself, with the majority having settled in California. Th…
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With the growing number of elderly family members in our mainstream society as well as among the Iranian immigrant population, caregiver burnout is inevitable for individuals lacking in support of their role as informal caregivers. Even within a collective and socially supportiv…
Metal music is a highly misunderstood style of music that is dismissed and demonized all over the world; even in the US and Europe where it originated it is still vilified and viewed as an unsophisticated style of music. In the Islamic Republic of Iran the same views are amplifi…
This qualitative study provides information on the experiences and perceptions of women who immigrated to the U.S. after the 1979 Iran Islamic Revolution to pursue higher education and professional careers. The study offers new understanding of strategies used to overcome obstac…
This present study examined how personality factors, levels of acculturation, and Iranian Americans' unique heritage all work together to affect them and their coping experience within the United States. Self-report ratings of the Five Factors of personality, Brief COPE coping s…
The post 9/11 context created a political and social climate in the United States (U.S.) that promoted prejudice and discrimination against anyone who looked Middle Eastern (e.g., Iranian) or Muslim (Britto, 2008). I was interested in how much and what kinds of prejudice and dis…
This study focuses on the musical activities and views of Iranian immigrant artists who perform, teach, and support traditional Iranian music in Los Angeles and Southern California. This geographic area and its interconnected social networks, which I refer to as Irangeles, is pa…
Little research exists on the experiences of first generation Iranians and the various factors that may influence their adaptation to life in the United States. As a growing population in the U.S., Iranians are an understudied group within the psychological literature. In consid…
This dissertation investigates the evidence for shift-induced interference in the case-marking system of Turkic languages. Through comparative analysis, it demonstrates that the range of meanings and functions expressed by case markers in modern Turkic languages, such as Uzbek, …
The present work is a descriptive grammatical and lexical study of the Angālī dialect, which is spoken in an area to the southwest of the province of Fārs (Persia proper), in Iran. This dialect represents linguistic peculiarities which connect it with a larger family of Iranian …
This study examines mother-child interaction from a Vygotskian perspective focusing both on maternal processes of scaffolding and on children's independent outcomes. Previous research on mother-child interaction has been dominated by the Anglo Western middle-class parent-child m…
This thesis is a study of how diasporic Iranian identities are represented in commercial food spaces in London and Vancouver. I look at how these identities are represented in both Iranian and non-Iranian commercial spaces such as grocery stores, restaurants and food stalls. My …
Cinemas and Cities: Spatiality in Taiwanese, Mexican, and Iranian Urban Films examines a paradigmatic shift of aesthetic norms that occurred in these three cinemas in the 1990s. As Taiwanese cinema gradually turned away from a nostalgic retrospection of the rural past toward a k…
This study examined the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of Iranian American immigrants who immigrated to the United States either prior to and after the Iran-Iraq War. Iranian Americans (N = 117) solicited from a cultural center completed an online…
This study examined the relationship between acculturation, depression, and anxiety in Jewish Iranian immigrants. A nonrandom sample of 72 Jewish Iranian men and women, ages 21 to 79, and residing in Southern California were recruited for the purpose of this study. Participants …
This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the experience of cross-cultural adjustment among intermarried Iranian-American women and their European-American husbands. A review of the literature revealed that information on Iranian-Americans, intermarriage, and cross-cultu…
The focus of this project was on the Iranian immigrant women residing in Los Angeles. This research project examined the relationship between self and culture and its effect on the individual's adaptation across cultures. The theoretical framework of this study came from three s…