Dr. Farah A Ibrahim:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Strength in the Face of Adversity: Resilience Among Mexican Nationals and Mexican Immigrants to the United States," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2016-09-18 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2016-10-09.

If you do not have your username and password for the journal's web site, you can use this link to reset your password (which will then be emailed to you along with your username). https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/login/resetPassword/fibra12?confirm=4e286158f41a8e3a0d5e03a5793707e7ff922a9dd5dde938568960b17876afba%3A1473628089

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/135

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"Strength in the Face of Adversity: Resilience Among Mexican Nationals and Mexican Immigrants to the United States"

Abstract
 

This exploratory, qualitative study looks at resilience in Mexican Nationals and Mexican Immigrants. Eight Mexican Nationals and six Mexican Immigrants participated in one to three hour semi-structured interviews that asked about their perceptions of stressors, motivation and success in life.  Participant responses were analyzed thematically for resilience using Thematic Analysis (Boyatzis, 1998). Contrastive Analysis of themes indicated that resilience can differ based on cultural circumstances (i.e., Mexican National/Mexican Immigrant) given that barriers and therefore potential gains differ by population. In further results, resilience was highlighted as the result of a process, or combination and interaction of experiences as opposed to being due to any specific trait. Specific emergent themes for facilitating resilience included Environmental Resources, Positive Attitudes, and Response Frameworks. Limitations, suggestions for future research, and implications for psychologists are discussed. 
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP