| Acculturation conflict in Latino youth: Discrimination, ethnic identity, and depressive symptoms |
2016 |
1528 |
Objectives: Patterns of parent–adolescent conflict differ between immigrant and nonimmigrant families living in the United States (Fuligni, 1998). Despite this, there is limited empirical literature examining the nuanced nature of parent–adolescent c... |
| Activation, Self-management, Engagement, and Retention in Behavioral Health Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial of the DECIDE Intervention |
2014 |
1481 |
Importance: Given minority patients’ unequal access to quality care, patient activation and self-management strategies have been suggested as a promising approach to improving mental health care.
Objective: To determine whether the DECIDE (Decide th... |
| Alternate Approaches to Coping in Latinx Adolescents From Immigrant Families |
2020 |
1390 |
The aims of this mixed-methods study were (a) to explore quantitatively the fit of the COPE inventory (Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced) for Latinx youth from immigrant families, and (b) to explore qualitatively aspects of coping in this po... |
| Becoming an American parent: Overcoming challenges and finding strengths in a new immigrant Latino community |
2006 |
7128 |
One in five children living in the United States is an immigrant or a child of an immigrant, and 62% of these children are Latino. Through qualitative methods, this study identifies ways that Latino immigrant parents with adolescent children cope wit... |
| Changes in academic aspirations and expectations among Asian American adolescents |
2015 |
978 |
Aspirations and expectations are critical to academic attainment and success, yet little is known about how they change over the high school years. With longitudinal data from 157 Asian American adolescents (60% female), we examined normative and wit... |
| Characteristics of Community Mental Health Clinics Associated With Treatment Engagement |
2014 |
1382 |
Objectives: Past literature documents many individual predictors of treatment engagement among mental health clients in community settings, but few studies have examined clinic characteristics that may be associated with treatment engagement. With da... |
| Commands, Competence, and Cariño : Maternal Socialization Practices in Mexican American Families |
2010 |
2348 |
Early research on the socialization of Latino children has posited that mothers exercise authoritarian practices, compared with lateral reasoning (authoritative) strategies emphasized by Anglo mothers. This work aimed to categorize fixed types of par... |
| Conversations between Latina mothers and their child’s mental health provider: An observational study of shared decision-making regarding pediatric patient mental health needs |
2020 |
212 |
Objective: To evaluate shared decision-making (SDM) and delineate SDM processes in audio-recorded conversations between language congruent Spanish-/English-speaking clinicians and parents of pediatric mental health patients. Methods: Transcripts from... |
| Coping and Culture: The Protective Effects of Shift-&-Persist and Ethnic-Racial Identity on Depressive Symptoms in Latinx Youth |
2019 |
325 |
Shift-&-persist is a coping strategy that has been shown to lead to positive health outcomes in low-SES youth but has not yet been examined with respect to psychological health. This study tests whether the shift-&-persist coping strategy works in ta... |
| Coping (together) with hate: Strategies used by Mexican-origin families in response to racial–ethnic discrimination |
2022 |
973 |
Coping in the context of racial–ethnic discrimination is often framed as an individualistic process, where the focus is on how the individual deals with the racialized stressor to mitigate its negative effects. However, individuals exist within socia... |
| Cultural stressors and the hopelessness model of depressive symptoms in Latino adolescents. |
2012 |
4198 |
Depressive symptoms in Latino youth have been related to both culturally-universal and culturally-based stressors. However, few studies have examined the unique contributions of culturally-based stressors above and beyond other types of stressors. Mo... |
| Depressive symptoms in Latina mothers in an emerging immigrant community |
2018 |
1753 |
Objectives: Latina mothers in emerging immigrant communities experience heightened risk for depressive symptoms because of the convergence of multiple risk factors rooted in economic, cultural, and familial experiences. Previous research with Latina/... |
| Ethnic Differences Among Adolescents Beginning Treatment for Depression |
2010 |
6131 |
This study examines ethnic/racial differences at the start of treatment among participants in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). African American and Latino youth were compared to Caucasian youth on symptom presentation and c... |
| Ethnic differences among substance using adolescents in a treatment dissemination project. |
2012 |
1237 |
Despite evidence of ethnic differences in substance use patterns among adolescents in community samples, clinical studies have not found ethnic differences in posttreatment outcomes. Prior clinical studies have been limited by small samples, focus on... |
| Ethnic Identity and Familism Among Latino College Students: A Test of Prospective Associations |
2017 |
840 |
The present study examined the longitudinal associations among familism respect and obligations values, ethnic centrality and private regard, and ethnic self-identification. Data were drawn from a socioeconomically diverse sample of Latino students a... |
| Ethnic Identity as a Protective Factor in the Lives of Asian American Adolescents |
2014 |
5000 |
This study examined the buffering role of ethnic identity for Asian American adolescents living in an emerging immigrant community. A sample of 176 Asian American ninth graders completed self-report measures assessing ethnic identity, stressors (i.e.... |
| Ethnic Identity in Context of Ethnic Discrimination: When Does Gender and Other-Group Orientation Increase Risk for Depressive Symptoms for Immigrant-Origin Young Adults? |
2017 |
1709 |
Objectives: Ethnic discrimination increases risk for depressive symptoms, but less is known about factors that influence the impact of this cultural challenge on psychological adjustment for immigrant-origin college students. Sociocultural identity d... |
| Ethnic-racial socialization in Latino families: The influence of mothers’ socialization practices on adolescent private regard, familism, and perceived ethnic-racial discrimination |
2019 |
1473 |
Objectives: Cultural value endorsement and ethnic–racial identity promote Latino/a adolescent positive adaptation and mitigate the negative impacts of perceived ethnic–racial discrimination. This study explored the intergenerational process of how ad... |
| Examining predictors of Mexican American adolescents’ coping typologies: Maternal and paternal behaviors and adolescent gender |
2015 |
306 |
This study used latent profile analysis to develop coping typologies of 340, 14- to16-year-old Mexican American adolescents (M = 14.46, SD = 0.69). Three typologies were identified: (a) opposition coping (adolescents who tended to use anger and venti... |
| Familial Cultural Values, Depressive Symptoms, School Belonging and Grades in Latino Adolescents: Does Gender Matter? |
2014 |
3317 |
Past studies document that Latino familial cultural values (i.e. familism, affiliative obedience and filial obligation) protect against depressive symptoms and promote academic resilience in adolescence. However, some studies suggest that familial cu... |
| Familism and Latino adolescent depressive symptoms: The role of maternal warmth and support and school support |
2016 |
1818 |
Objectives: This study examined the relationship between familism and depressive symptoms across relational contexts in adolescence, and whether maternal warmth and support, and school support moderated the relationship between familism and depressiv... |
| Familism in action in an emerging immigrant community: An examination of indirect effects in early adolescence |
2020 |
1419 |
Familism values promote the positive adaptation of Latinx youth, but few studies have examined potential indirect effects associated with these positive effects. In emerging immigrant communities, where fewer resources are available to youth and fami... |
| Familism Through a Developmental Lens |
2014 |
7720 |
This article reviews an emerging literature examining the effects of familism across childhood and adolescence. Familism has been described as a Latino cultural value that emphasizes obligation, filial piety, family support and obedience, and its eff... |
| Foreigner objectification, English proficiency, and adjustment among youth and mothers from Latinx American backgrounds |
2018 |
2099 |
Objectives: Understanding the experience of foreigner objectification is relevant given the possibility of ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and mistrust of immigrants in the United States. The present study examines main and interactive effects of objectif... |
| Gendered academic adjustment among Asian American adolescents in an emerging immigrant community. |
2012 |
3077 |
Research on the academic adjustment of immigrant adolescents has been predominately conducted in large cities among established migration areas. To broaden the field’s restricted focus, data from 172 (58% female) Asian American adolescents who reside... |
| How do New Immigrant Latino Parents Interpret Problem Behavior in Adolescents? |
2014 |
2889 |
Parents are gatekeepers for their children’s mental-health treatment, yet many are unclear about what behaviors warrant intervention. Seeking treatment is further complicated for immigrant parents whose cultural backgrounds may influence their unders... |
| The Impact of Discrimination and Support on Developmental Competencies in Latino Adolescents |
2014 |
3261 |
Discrimination is considered a contextual risk factor for ethnic minority youth, but social support provided in the same context may function to offset the risk or encourage adaptive responses. Per the integrative model of child development (Garcia C... |
| Impact of trauma exposure and acculturative stress on internalizing symptoms for recently arrived migrant-origin youth: Results from a community-based partnership |
2017 |
1973 |
Migrant youth face cultural challenges upon initial adjustment into the United States. Although there is considerable empirical evidence that trauma impacts interpersonal relations, there is a dearth of research examining the association between adve... |
| The influence of cultural identity and perceived barriers on college preparation and aspirations of Latino youth in emerging immigrant communities. |
2013 |
5417 |
Emerging immigrant communities differ from established communities in terms of needs and available resources. Students in these emerging communities may still be acculturating to new contexts and establishing their ethnic identities, which may impact... |
| An internalizing pathway to alcohol and substance use disorders |
2011 |
722 |
Research emanating from the field of developmental science indicates that initial risk factors for substance use disorder can be evident in early childhood. One dominant developmental pathway connecting these initial risk factors with subsequent subs... |
| The intersection of racial-ethnic socialization and adolescence: A closer examination at stage-salient issues |
2018 |
1869 |
The literature on parental racial–ethnic socialization (RES) has established the multiple protective effects of RES on developmental outcomes. Although the majority of this literature examines RES processes in adolescence, with the exception of ident... |
| Involving Latina/o parents in patient-centered outcomes research: Contributions to research study design, implementation and outcomes |
2017 |
454 |
Background: Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is supported by policymakers as a way to provide service providers and patients with evidence-based information to make better health-care decisions and ultimately improve services for patients. Ho... |
| Latent profiles of American and ethnic-racial identity in Latinx mothers and adolescents: Links to behavioral practices and cultural values |
2020 |
1573 |
Few studies have examined national identity processes in Latinx immigrant mothers and their children. This study uses a person-centered approach to examine how profiles of American and ethnic–racial identity are related to American and Latinx cultura... |
| Latent profiles of discrimination and socialization predicting ethnic identity and well-being among Asian American Adolescents |
2018 |
1996 |
Ethnic identity is rooted in sociocultural processes, but little is known about how social interactions predict its longitudinal changes. Using data from 154 Asian American adolescents, latent profile analysis derived four typologies based on unfair ... |
| Latina/o adolescents in an emerging immigrant community: A qualitative exploration of their future goals. |
2012 |
3386 |
Although immigrant adolescents typically have high hopes for their futures, educational and career outcomes often do not match aspirations. The future aspirations of 17 Latina/o adolescents in an emerging immigrant community were explored. Qualitativ... |
| Latina/o Parent Activation in Children’s Mental Health Treatment: The Role of Demographic and Psychological Factors |
2017 |
1497 |
Patient activation has recently emerged as a critical component of effective health care (Hibbard & Greene, 2013), but Latina/o populations demonstrate lower levels of activation compared to non-Latina/o Whites (Cunningham, Hibbard, & Gibbons, 2011).... |
| Latino adolescent educational affiliation profiles |
2017 |
1116 |
Supporting postsecondary access for Latino adolescents is important due to the size of the population and mixed evidence of progress. In order to better understand the college-going and school belonging attitudes of Latinos, we used an exploratory la... |
| A longitudinal examination of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination, public ethnic regard, and depressive symptoms in Latino youth |
2017 |
1488 |
This longitudinal study examined the role of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and public ethnic regard on depressive symptoms in an adolescent Latino sample (n = 141) living in an emerging immigrant community. Using a cross lagged model, this s... |
| Making my family proud: The unique contribution of familism pride to the psychological adjustment of Latinx emerging adults |
2019 |
4021 |
Objectives: Familism values serve to provide key cultural scripts in Latinx families, and these values have been associated with positive psychosocial outcomes for Latinx youth (Stein et al., 2014). Yet, how familism values intersect with the experie... |
| Measurement invariance of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ-15) across sexual orientation, gender identity, and race/ethnicity in a sample of sexual minority young adults |
2022 |
724 |
Sexual minority (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual) people are at increased risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors compared to their heterosexual peers. The interpersonal theory of suicide proposes that perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingnes... |
| One talk at a time: Developing an ethnic-racial socialization intervention for Black, Latinx, and Asian American families |
2021 |
1269 |
Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) can promote positive outcomes in minoritized youth, but parents often face challenges in effectively engaging in these conversations. We describe the development of a video-based online parent intervention program ai... |
| Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth |
2014 |
3512 |
Cultural value gaps between Mexican American parents and their children are hypothesized to place youth at risk for poor mental health outcomes. While most studies examine these gaps on broad measures of acculturation, the present study examined valu... |
| Parental influences on Hmong American adolescents’ ethnic–racial identity |
2018 |
1563 |
This study examined associations between cultural socialization and Hmong American early adolescents’ (n 93) ethnic–racial identity in the context of the overall parent–adolescent relationship. Findings suggested that cultural socialization was posi... |
| Predicting longitudinal changes in familism in an emerging immigrant context |
2022 |
826 |
Building on the Behavioral Process Model of Familism, the current study examined the longitudinal association between public and private ethnic regard and familial support, and familism values in a sample of 141 Latinx 7th–10th graders living in a se... |
| Prevention and Intervention Research With Latino Families: A Translational Approach |
2015 |
2765 |
The present paper takes a translational approach in applying the themes of the current special section to prevention and intervention science in Latino families. The paper reviews the current literature on cultural processes in prevention and interve... |
| Protective and promotive effects of Latino early adolescents’ cultural assets against multiple types of discrimination |
2018 |
428 |
Given adversity associated with discrimination, it is important to identify culturally relevant factors that may protect against its harmful effects. Using latent variable interactions, this study examined the moderating effects of cultural assets on... |
| The Protective Role of Familism in the Lives of Latino Adolescents |
2013 |
21082 |
Familism, a Latino value that promotes loyalty, cohesiveness, and obedience within the family, predicts improved outcomes for Latino adolescents. However, few studies have tested whether familism serves a protective role when adolescents are facing s... |
| Socioeconomic Stress and Academic Adjustment Among Asian American Adolescents: The Protective Role of Family Obligation |
2013 |
4515 |
Socioeconomic stress has long been found to place youth at risk, with low family income conferring disadvantages in adolescents’ school achievement and success. This study investigates the role of socioeconomic stress on academic adjustment, and pinp... |
| Typologies of Discrimination: Latinx Youth’s Experiences in an Emerging Immigrant Community |
2019 |
2006 |
Few studies examine how racial-ethnic peer discrimination experiences of Latinx youth vary across the race-ethnicity of the perpetrator. In a sample of 170 Latinx early adolescents (Mage = 12.86 years, range = 10.33–15.23; 51% female), we identified ... |
| When discrimination hurts: The longitudinal impact of increases in peer discrimination on anxiety and depressive symptoms in Mexican-origin youth |
2019 |
965 |
Life course models of the impact of discrimination on health and mental health outcomes posit that the pernicious effects of discrimination may not be immediate, but instead may become apparent at later stages in development. This study tests whether... |