Sharing the Burden: Latinx Immigrant Parents and Teens’ Sociopolitical Discussions and Their Impact on Youth Mental Health

IF 3.4 3区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Saraí Blanco Martinez, Jasmin Aramburu, Joel Lucio, E. Grimes, F. Cross
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Background. There is limited research on parent-child discussions about sociopolitical issues in the US and how they take place. There is less known about the role of sociopolitical conversations as a protective factor benefitting immigrant youth and families. We draw on the ecological expansion of the adverse childhood experience framework to better understand how immigrant-origin youth are making sense of restrictive immigration policies coupled with cultural and sociopolitical messaging received from parents. Methods. Participants engaged in one-hour virtual interviews between 2020 and 2021. We conducted ten interviews with undocumented Latinx parents and 10 interviews with their adolescents aged 13-17. Results. Three main themes emerged from parent interviews: (1) sociopolitical socialization and youth agency, (2) documentation status socialization, and (3) emotional and mental health well-being. Findings show that parents use storytelling to share messages about race, culture, and immigration and provide counternarratives to the toxic sociopolitical environment. Four themes emerged from youth interviews: (1) sociopolitical awareness and action; (2) youth taking on a protective role; (3) learning about risks, injustices, and privileges; and (4) mental health. Youth shared a desire for sociopolitical education and reported a range of coping mechanisms against anti-immigrant rhetoric. Conclusion and Implication. Our findings provide a greater understanding of communication practices within Latinx mixed-status immigrant families, by drawing on both parent and youth reports. These findings can inform practitioners and researchers alike of the amplified systemic barriers felt by immigrant families during the pandemic and the urgency of supporting them as they fight for their rights and dignity.
分担负担:拉丁裔移民父母与青少年的社会政治讨论及其对青少年心理健康的影响
背景。关于美国社会政治问题的亲子讨论及其发生方式的研究有限。对于社会政治对话作为有利于移民青年和家庭的保护因素所起的作用,人们知之甚少。我们利用不良童年经历框架的生态扩展来更好地理解移民出身的青年如何理解限制性移民政策以及从父母那里收到的文化和社会政治信息。方法。参与者在2020年至2021年期间进行了一小时的虚拟采访。我们对10位无证拉丁裔父母和10位13-17岁的青少年进行了访谈。结果。从父母访谈中出现了三个主要主题:(1)社会政治社会化和青年代理,(2)证件地位社会化,(3)情感和心理健康福祉。研究结果表明,父母通过讲故事来分享有关种族、文化和移民的信息,并为有毒的社会政治环境提供反叙事。青年访谈中出现了四个主题:(1)社会政治意识和行动;(2)青年发挥保护作用;(3)了解风险、不公和特权;(4)心理健康。年轻人都渴望接受社会政治教育,并报告了一系列应对反移民言论的机制。结论与意义。我们的研究结果通过借鉴父母和年轻人的报告,为拉丁裔混合身份移民家庭的沟通实践提供了更好的理解。这些调查结果可以让从业人员和研究人员了解到,大流行期间移民家庭感受到的系统性障碍加剧,以及支持他们争取权利和尊严的紧迫性。
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期刊介绍: The mission of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in the field of child and adolescent development. Each issue focuses on a specific new direction or research topic, and is peer reviewed by experts on that topic. Any topic in the domain of child and adolescent development can be the focus of an issue. Topics can include social, cognitive, educational, emotional, biological, neuroscience, health, demographic, economical, and socio-cultural issues that bear on children and youth, as well as issues in research methodology and other domains. Topics that bridge across areas are encouraged, as well as those that are international in focus or deal with under-represented groups. The readership for the journal is primarily students, researchers, scholars, and social servants from fields such as psychology, sociology, education, social work, anthropology, neuroscience, and health. We welcome scholars with diverse methodological and epistemological orientations.
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