[ENGAGE] It Started at UCSB: Insights for Relationships and Health from Latino Culture
Speaker
Belinda Campos, Ph.D.Location
Sage Room, Psych 1312Info
Abstract: Social relationships can enhance the quality of life by conferring higher levels of subjective well-being, greater resilience against adverse circumstances, and better health. To obtain these benefits, humans must navigate a complex social world where self-interest must be balanced by other-interest. In this talk, I assert that Latino contexts are of theoretical and applied interest for studying these questions and present a series of studies that show that Latino cultural values that emphasize other-interest are associated with benefits for relationship quality and have implications for health.
Speaker Bio: Belinda Campos has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. After completing her Ph.D., she held postdoctoral appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Anthropology. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies. Dr. Campos holds an affiliation appointment in the Department of Psychological Science in the School of Social Ecology, and is also a faculty member in the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC) in the School of Medicine.
