Alvin N Alvarez

Alvin N Alvarez
San Francisco State University | SFSU · College of Health and Social Sciences

PhD

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August 1993 - August 1997
University of Pennsylvania
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  • Senior Staff Psychologist
August 1997 - July 2014
San Francisco State University
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  • Professor (Full)

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Publications (34)
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This study was the first to examine the factor structure, measurement invariance, and criterion-related evidence for the construct validity of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18; Derogatis, 2000) in an Asian American sample. Multigroup confirmative factor analyses were carried out in a community sample of adults of Asian ethnic descent (N = 624...
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Racial identity has been linked to a number of important psychological outcomes, including perceptions of racism, self-esteem, and psychological well-being in Asian American populations. Although the People of Color Racial Identity Attitudes Scale (PRIAS; Helms, 1995) is the most widely used measure in Asian American racial identity research, numer...
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The current study examined how historical, social, and political contexts in their country of origin and their host country have influenced first-generation Asian Indians’ racialized experiences in the United States. We conducted nine separate focus groups with a total of 50 first-generation Asian Indian participants (20 men and 30 women). In a sem...
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Racial discrimination – from individual to institutional forms – has been a persistent facet of the life experiences of Asian Americans since their arrival in the United States. As a consequence, perceived racism has been linked with a host of adverse outcomes ranging from depression to poor treatment utilization to suicide attempts. To further exp...
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This article provides an overview of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA). A brief history is provided, followed by current status and resources, connections to counseling psychology, and implications for the Society of Counseling Psychology and for the future of the AAPA. AAPA was created in 1972 in response to psychology’s neglect...
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The purpose of the study was to examine how family, school, and neighborhood factors contributed to Chinese American adolescent perceptions of discrimination. The sample included 185 Chinese American adolescents (mean age = 16.8 years, SD = .81; 58% female; 70% U.S.-born) and their parents. As hypothesized, the results showed that greater parent pe...
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The authors conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the Asian American Racism-Related Stress Inventory (AARRSI) to further examine the underlying factor structure in a total sample of 1,273 Asian American participants. In the first step of analysis, an exploratory factor analysis with 651 participants yielded a 13-item two-factor...
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We examined racial/ethnic discrimination experiences of Chinese American adolescents to determine how discrimination is linked to poor adjustment (i.e., loneliness, anxiety, and somatization) and how the context of the family can buffer or exacerbate these links. We collected survey data from 181 Chinese American adolescents and their parents in No...
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In-depth interviews with 363 students across nine campuses capture the experiences of Latino, African American, Asian, Native American, White and Immigrant students in the California community college system. Four themes emerged with respect to advising and counseling: (a) Differences in the Use of Counseling and Advising; (b) The Importance of the...
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Four studies were conducted to develop and validate the Coping With Discrimination Scale (CDS). In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (N = 328) identified 5 factors: Education/Advocacy, Internalization, Drug and Alcohol Use, Resistance, and Detachment, with internal consistency reliability estimates ranging from .72 to .90. In Study 2, a confi...
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Although the literature on Asian Americans and racism has been emerging, few studies have examined how coping influences one's encounters with racism. To advance the literature, the present study focused on the psychological impact of Filipino Americans' experiences with racism and the role of coping as a mediator using a community-based sample of...
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This reprinted article originally appeared in Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007, Vol. 54, (No. 2), 132–141. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2007-04178-003.) On the basis of stress and coping theory, the authors examined coping as a mediator of the relationship between perceptions of racism and racism-relate...
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The relevance of race, ethnicity, and culture in the mentor–mentee relationship is the essence of this article. The authors argue that diversity education for those mentoring students of color merits an additional level of required expertise in the following key areas: culture and academia, shared/assumed existential posture, racial discrimination,...
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The book consists of thirty chapters divided into six parts. In crafting a book of such a scope, it was our hope to provide instructors with the flexibility to create syllabi that reflect their creativity and expertise. Although there are clear overlaps in some of the chapters, each chapter is self-contained – thereby allowing instructors to pick a...
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On the basis of stress and coping theory, the authors examined coping as a mediator of the relationship between perceptions of racism and racism-related stress with a sample of Asian American college students (N = 336). Results indicated that coping mediated the relationship between racism and racism-related stress differentially by gender. The mor...
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Due to the limited psychological research on Asian Americans' experiences with racism, in the current study the authors examined the relationships between racial socialization, racial identity, and perceptions of racism, with a college-aged sample (N = 254) consisting primarily of Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans. With the use of multiple r...
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How do Asian Americans communicate? In what ways does this communication differ across Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, and Vietnamese Americans? To what extent is Asian American communication influenced by Asian cultural values, history, and racial and ethnic identities? Although the breadth of these que...
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The authors identify Asian American associations and organizations, academic journals, periodicals, and media resources. Selected annotated resources on Asian American activism and politics, counseling and psychology, educational issues, gender and sexual orientation, history, policy reports, and racial and ethnic identity are also included.
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Racial identity is an important but often overlooked aspect of working with Asian American college students. An understanding of racial identity theory can provide insight into the ways students experience and deal with the college environment, peers, and their identity.
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Collaborations between student affairs professionals and Asian American studies faculty may be mutually beneficial by contributing to holistic student development and creating supportive environments for Asian American students.
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J. E. Helms's (1990) racial identity psychodiagnostic model was used to examine the contribution of racial identity schemas and reflected appraisals to the development of healthy racial adjustment of Asian American university students (N = 188). Racial adjustment was operationally defined as collective self-esteem and awareness of anti-Asian racism...
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Racial identity theorists have suggested that healthy racial adjustment involves the development of a positive and self-affirming identification with one's racial group as a result of becoming aware of and overcoming one's psychologically internalized experiences with racism. However, due to a limited amount of research, it has been difficult to de...

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