ArticleAmerican journal of community psychology2022
Cultural efficacy as a novel component of understanding linkages between culture and mental health in Indigenous communities.
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- The association between cultural connectedness and health-related quality of life among Indigenous peoples in the CANZUS countries: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Cultural capacity, self-efficacy, and humility of healthcare providers: a survey in Southeast Iran.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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- Nurturing resilience in American Indian/Alaska Native preschool children: the role of cultural socialization, executive function, and neighborhood risk.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Community Engagement and Giving Back Among North American Indigenous Youth.Journal of community engagement and scholarship · 2023Article
- Cultural efficacy as a novel component of understanding linkages between culture and mental health in Indigenous communities.American journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- The Health Effects of a Cherokee Grounded Culture and Leadership Program.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Predictors of Land-Based Activity Participation in a National Representative Sample of Indigenous Individuals Living Off-Reserve.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
We used a novel measure of cultural efficacy to examine empirical pathways between enculturation, efficacy, and two wellbeing outcomes. Cultural factors are not consistently linked to better wellbeing in the academic literature despite widespread understanding of these processes in Indigenous communities. Healing pathways is a community-based participatory study with eight reservations/reserves in the upper Midwest and Canada. This study uses data collected in 2017-2018 (n = 453, 58.1% women, mean age = 26.3 years) and structural equation modeling to test the relationships between enculturation, cultural efficacy, and mental health. The direct effect of enculturation on anxiety was positive. The indirect effect of enculturation via cultural efficacy was negatively associated with anxiety and positively associated with positive mental health. Cultural efficacy is an important linking variable through which the protective effects of culture manifest. The complex nature of culture must be met with innovative measures and deep understanding of Indigenous peoples to fully capture the protective role of culture.
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