Role models and health of Serbian Roma women
We examine role model choice among Serbian Roma women and describe the relationships found among preferred role model type and socio-economic and health variables. Data were collected in 2015-2016 from 274 Roma women, averaging 55 years of age. Most often, Roma women chose female family...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2018/0350-08611802367C.pdf |
| Summary: | We examine role model choice among Serbian Roma women and describe the
relationships found among preferred role model type and socio-economic and
health variables. Data were collected in 2015-2016 from 274 Roma women,
averaging 55 years of age. Most often, Roma women chose female family
members as role models, but some women also chose role models outside their
ethic group. We discuss how the values of the two disparate role model
choices, i.e., kin and non-kin, each with associated differences in
underlying behavior, may be a critical component of influence on the Roma
girls’ outcomes. Role models can have an effect on health, and in the case
of Roma women, this effect is found in differential level of stress. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |