ERIC Number: EJ1263862
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Publication Date: 2020-Aug
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Family Contextual Influences on Bicultural Competence Development among U.S. Mexican-Origin Youths
Safa, M. Dalal; White, Rebecca M. B.; Knight, George P.
Developmental Psychology, v56 n8 p1596-1609 Aug 2020
This study investigated how parents' value-based enculturation and acculturation processes (i.e., Mexican American and mainstream American values trajectories across their youths' development from late childhood to middle adolescence) related to their youths' behavioral, affective, and cognitive components of bicultural competence in late adolescence. Our sample included 749 U.S. Mexican-origin youths (30% Mexico-born; 49% female), and their parents, followed for 7 years (M[subscript age] = 10.44 to 17.38 years). Linear latent growth analyses revealed that both parental enculturation and acculturation processes have important implications for U.S. Mexican-origin adolescents' bicultural competence. This work highlights parental promoting and inhibiting influences on the development of bicultural competence, a normative developmental competency among ethnic-racial minority and immigrant adolescents.
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Acculturation, Values, Cultural Awareness, Late Adolescents, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Biculturalism, Parent Influence, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Child Relationship
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); National Institute of Mental Health (DHHS/NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: SPRFBP1911722; R01MH68920
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