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Cherokee Self-reliance and Word-use in Stories of Stress

Overview
Journal J Cult Divers
Specialties Nursing
Social Sciences
Date 2010 Jul 30
PMID 20669397
Citations 4
Authors
John Lowe
Cheryl Riggs
Jim Henson
Tribal Elder
Patricia Liehr
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Abstract

This study examined the relationship between Cherokee self-reliance and related values expressed through word-use in stories of stress written by Cherokee adolescents. The overall aim of this pilot study was to test the feasibility of using cultural appropriate measurements for a larger intervention study of substance abuse prevention in Cherokee adolescents. A sample of 50 Cherokee adolescent senior high school students completed the Cherokee Self-Reliance Questionnaire and wrote their story of stress. The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) program, a word-based computerized text analysis software, was used to report the percentage of words used in the selected word categories in relation to all the words used by a participant. Word-use from the stories of stress were found to correlate with Cherokee self-reliance.

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