Zoe E Taylor, Rand D Conger, Richard W Robins, Keith F Widaman
{"title":"Parenting Practices and Perceived Social Support: Longitudinal Relations with the Social Competence of Mexican-origin Children.","authors":"Zoe E Taylor, Rand D Conger, Richard W Robins, Keith F Widaman","doi":"10.1037/lat0000038","DOIUrl":"10.1037/lat0000038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social bonds and supportive relationships are widely recognized as being indispensable to healthy psychological functioning and well-being. Social support is a psychological resource that is expected to also contribute positively to parenting practices. The present study longitudinally examined the relations between mothers' (<i>N</i> = 674) and fathers' (<i>N</i> = 430) perceived social support and parenting behaviors, and their relations with children's social competence during early adolescence in Mexican-origin single and two-parent families. Our constructs of interest (warm parenting, monitoring, perceived social support, and children's social competence) were significantly correlated at T1, and demonstrated significant stability across time for both parental models. Parental warmth (as reported by the child, and opposite parent) and parental monitoring (self-reported by mothers and fathers) were correlated and also showed bidirectional associations across time. Parental monitoring at T2 positively predicted change in children's social competence at T3 (controlling for T1 social competence) for mothers. Parental warmth at T2 positively predicted change in children's social competence at T3 (controlling for T1 social competence) for fathers. For mothers, the indirect effect of social support at T1 on children's social competence at T3 via parental monitoring at T2 (and controlling for prior levels) was significant. Findings suggest that maternal perceived social support contributes to children's social competence due to its positive relation to maternal monitoring. Results may also suggest that mothers' and fathers' parenting behaviors differentially relate to children's social competence in Latino families, although additional work focused on comparing parenting behaviors in two-parent families is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4705564/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82759562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. S. Rogers, Z. Russinova, Mihoko Maru, Maria E. Restrepo-Toro, K. Cook, James Diego Rogers
{"title":"Assessing recovery-promoting competencies of providers serving Latinos with serious mental illnesses.","authors":"E. S. Rogers, Z. Russinova, Mihoko Maru, Maria E. Restrepo-Toro, K. Cook, James Diego Rogers","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86519335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elma I Lorenzo-Blanco, Seth J Schwartz, Jennifer B Unger, Byron L Zamboanga, Sabrina E Des Rosiers, Shi Huang, Juan A Villamar, Daniel W Soto, Monica Pattarroyo, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
{"title":"Latino/a Youth Intentions to Smoke Cigarettes: Exploring the Roles of Culture and Gender.","authors":"Elma I Lorenzo-Blanco, Seth J Schwartz, Jennifer B Unger, Byron L Zamboanga, Sabrina E Des Rosiers, Shi Huang, Juan A Villamar, Daniel W Soto, Monica Pattarroyo, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati","doi":"10.1037/lat0000034","DOIUrl":"10.1037/lat0000034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Latino/a youth are at risk for cigarette smoking. This risk seems to increase as youth navigate the U.S. cultural context, especially for girls. To investigate how acculturation may influence Latino/a youths' intentions to use cigarettes, this study combines a bidimensional/multidomain model of acculturation and the Theory of Reasoned Action. Our sample consisted of 303 recent Latino/a immigrant youth who had resided in the United States for five years or less at baseline (141 girls, 160 boys; 153 from Miami, 150 from Los Angeles) who completed surveys at 3 time-points. Youth completed measures of acculturation (Latino/a practices, Latino/a identity, collectivistic values; U.S. cultural practices, U.S. identity, individualistic values), smoking related health risk attitudes, perceived subjective norms regarding smoking, and intentions to use cigarettes. Structural equation modeling indicated that collectivistic values were associated with more perceived disapproval of smoking, which in turn was negatively associated with intentions to smoke. Collectivistic values may help protect Latino/a immigrant youth from intending to smoke. Thus, educational smoking prevention efforts could promote collectivistic values and disseminate messages about the negative consequences of smoking on interpersonal relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5201205/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72961060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Our Differences Don't Separate Us\": Immigrant Families Navigate Intrafamilial Acculturation Gaps Through Diverse Resilience Processes","authors":"S. Buckingham, A. Brodsky, B. County","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000042","url":null,"abstract":"In light of mixed findings regarding the valence of outcomes associated with acculturation gaps in mixed-generation immigrant families, this research adopted a qualitative methodology to explore the rich complexity of acculturation gaps and their navigation. Through multiple individual, dyadic, and family semistructured interviews with 2 mixed-generation Salvadoran immigrant families living in the United States, this study explored the ways in which families (a) described and understood their acculturation gaps, (b) determined whether gaps were benign, potentially problematic, or useful for the family, and (c) navigated gaps depending on their determined valence. The individual and family narratives were analyzed through constructivist grounded theory, guided by the theories of acculturation gap-distress (Lau et al., 2005; Portes & Rumbaut, 1996) and family resilience (Walsh, 2003). This research revealed that acculturation gaps can exist among all family members and that although families described gaps in terms of differences in overt behavioral practices, only those discrepant practices that were related to underlying value or identification differences were considered potentially problematic. The families were seen to use their belief systems, organizational patterns, communication and problem-solving strategies, and methods of escape to effectively navigate these gaps in 18 diverse ways depending upon the gaps’ valences. This study suggests that (a) a family resilience model can be applied to the study of acculturation gaps, (b) expansion of such model as applied to acculturation gaps may be indicated, and (c) such model may provide insight into why some families with acculturation gaps experience negative outcomes whereas others flourish.","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84289342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The healing powers of a patrón espiritual: Latina/o clinicians’ understanding and use of spirituality and ceremony in psychotherapy.","authors":"R. Hoogasian, Alberta M. Gloria","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77130404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alyson C. Gerdes, Theresa L. Kapke, Kathryn E. Lawton, M. Grace, Gabriela Hurtado
{"title":"Culturally adapting parent training for Latino youth with ADHD: Development and pilot.","authors":"Alyson C. Gerdes, Theresa L. Kapke, Kathryn E. Lawton, M. Grace, Gabriela Hurtado","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000037","url":null,"abstract":"La información de unos grupos de discusión de padres latinos, unas investigaciones sobre valores culturales latinas, y las recomendaciones de proveedores de servicios de salud mental a las familias latinas fueron utilizadas para adaptar un entrenamiento basado en evidencia para los padres de niños latinos con TDAH. Adaptaciones culturales fueron realizadas a cinco sesiones específicas, y dos sesiones fueron sustituidas por dos sesiones nuevas que fueron más congruente culturalmente. El tratamiento adaptado también incluyó unas adaptaciones generales a todas las sesiones del tratamiento, adaptaciones culturales a la fase de la evaluación y el comentario, y adaptaciones enfocadas en las barreras prácticas al tratamiento. Los resultados iniciales de un pequeño grupo experimental demostraron que el 100% de las 84 GERDES, KAPKE, LAWTON, GRACE, AND DIEGUEZ HURTADO T hi s do cu m en t is co py ri gh te d by th e A m er ic an Ps yc ho lo gi ca l A ss oc ia tio n or on e of its al lie d pu bl is he rs . T hi s ar tic le is in te nd ed so le ly fo r th e pe rs on al us e of th e in di vi du al us er an d is no t to be di ss em in at ed br oa dl y. familias completaron el entrenamiento que fue adaptado culturalmente y reportaron que estaban satisfechos con el tratamiento. También, el 80% de los niños mejoraron fiablemente en relación con la sintomatología de TDAH reportado por los padres, y el 40% de los padres reportaron que mejoraron fiablemente la función de los padres y la familia.","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88425372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Hirai, Laura L. Vernon, Jason R. Popan, G. Clum
{"title":"Acculturation and enculturation, stigma toward psychological disorders, and treatment preferences in a Mexican American sample: The role of education in reducing stigma","authors":"M. Hirai, Laura L. Vernon, Jason R. Popan, G. Clum","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76502512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria T. Aretakis, Rosario Ceballo, Gloria A. Suarez, Tissyana C. Camacho
{"title":"Investigating the Immigrant Paradox and Latino Adolescents' Academic Attitudes","authors":"Maria T. Aretakis, Rosario Ceballo, Gloria A. Suarez, Tissyana C. Camacho","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000031","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the immigrant paradox, whereby early generation immigrant youth exhibit more positive developmental outcomes than their later generation peers. Among our sample of Latino 9th graders (n 212) residing in impoverished, urban cities, we examine whether the immigrant paradox exists with regard to Latino adolescents’ educational values and school effort and whether cultural values serve as a protective factor for Latino youth. Our findings provide evidence for the immigrant paradox with regard to educational values in both our full sample as well as the Dominican American subsample and highlight the importance of drawing greater distinctions within cohorts of second-generation Latino youth. Further, greater endorsement of traditional cultural values, such as familismo and family obligations, were significantly related to adolescents’ educational values and school effort. Hence, this study underscores the importance of family processes and cultural values in motivating children of immigrants to succeed academically.","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72934658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validity of Body Mass Index in Assessing Adiposity in Latina/o Youth","authors":"C. Limbers, R. Kantor, G. R. Grimes","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000036","url":null,"abstract":"Relatively few studies to date have examined the performance of BMI in detecting excess adiposity in Latina/o youth. The objective of the present study was to assess the validity of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) BMI 95th percentile to identify excess adiposity in a sample of rural Latina/o youth. Height and weight and anthropometric skinfold measures were obtained for 636 third through fifth grade Latina/o students. Approximately 41.5% of the sample fell within the obese BMI range. Receiver operating characteristic curves were utilized to assess the sensitivity and specificity of the CDC BMI 95th percentile in classifying excess percent body fat. For the total sample, the BMI 95th percentile showed a sensitivity of 0.84 and specificity of 0.80. The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.82 indicating fair to good discriminatory power. Subgroup analysis indicated high sensitivity (0.95) for Latina girls and high specificity (0.91) for Latino boys. Our findings suggest that rural Latino boys have a greater likelihood of being under identified as having excess adiposity when using BMI in isolation. These findings provide initial evidence for a need for racial/ethnic specific BMI norms for Latina/o youth.","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84395511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah May, Lisa Y. Flores, Stephen C. Jeanetta, Lindsey Saunders, C. Valdivia, M. A. Avalos, Domingo Martinez
{"title":"Latina/o immigrant integration in the rural midwest: Host community resident and immigrant perspectives.","authors":"Sarah May, Lisa Y. Flores, Stephen C. Jeanetta, Lindsey Saunders, C. Valdivia, M. A. Avalos, Domingo Martinez","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78926430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}