Acculturation, Familism and Mother–Daughter Relations Among Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Adolescent Latinas

Zayas, Luis H.; Bright, Charlotte Lyn; Álvarez-Sánchez, Thyria; Cabassa, Leopoldo J.

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“…Three studies support the model, where acculturation gaps predicted higher youth substance use and externalizing problems (Martinez 2006;Schofield et al 2008;Zayas et al 2009). However, in two other studies, acculturation gaps were not associated with youth externalizing problems (Lau et al 2005;Pasch et al2006).…”

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“…Supporting the argument that specific values need to be measured, Céspedes and Huey (2008) found that cultural value gaps between parents and adolescents in the perceived endorsement of traditional gender roles predicted greater adolescent depressive symptoms, but in this same study, parent-child gaps on a broad measure of acculturation were not related to depression. Additionally, mother-daughter cultural value gaps in familism were associated with greater externalizing symptoms but not internalizing symptoms in a sample of suicide-attempters and non-attempters (Zayas et al 2009). Thus, more research is needed examining specific cultural value gaps to understand how these gaps relate to adolescent functioning.…”

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Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth

Stein

Polo

2013

J Child Fam Stud

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Abstract: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 value gaps in affiliative obedience, a cultural value that has at its core the belief that respect and deference must be shown to parents and adults. The present study hypothesized that adolescents would exhibit greater depressive symptoms when youth demonstrated lower levels of affiliative obedience than their mothers. Moreover, we examined whether gender, nativity status, and age predicted cultural value gaps and moderated the relationship between gaps and depressive symptoms. These questions were evaluated in a school-based sample of 159 Mexican American families whose children were either US born (n = 82) or foreign-born (n = 77). Twenty-five percent of the sample demonstrated a cultural value gap where youth endorsed lower levels of affiliative obedience than their parents, and this group reported the greatest depressive symptoms. Age moderated this relationship, and the greatest association between cultural value gaps and depression was found among the older group of early adolescents.

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Section: Empirical Evaluations Of Acculturation and Cultural Value Gapsmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Empirical Evaluations Of Acculturation and Cultural Value Gapsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth

Stein

Polo

2013

J Child Fam Stud

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“…Some studies have documented Latino girls' perceptions of gendered parenting practices (Raffaelli & Ontai, 2001, 2004. Nonetheless, more research is warranted to examine the differential contribution of these practices to conflicts among Latino PIB and both sons and daughters, as gendered practices and ensuing conflict might be associated with poor mental health among young Latinas (Bámaca-Colbert et al, 2012;Zayas, Bright, Álvarez-Sánchez, & Cabassa, 2009). …”

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“Our Child Is Not Like Us:” Understanding Parent-Child Conflict Among U.S. Latino Families

Roblyer

Bámaca‐Colbert²,

Rojas

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. The literature on Latino families in the United States rarely has identified specific topics of parent-child conflict among families headed by parents who are immigrants or the children of immigrants. We used 16 focus groups and thematic analysis to identify seven salient topics of parent-child conflict in these families: activities of daily life, materialism, apparel, dating and sexuality, friendships, education, and use of the Spanish language. Most conflicts had normative characteristics stemming from youth's expanding autonomy; however, parents mostly framed them in terms of cultural discrepancies. Results suggest that in some Latino families, parent-child conflict might be best understood in terms of parallel dual frames of reference, that is, the contrasting cultural frames of reference parents and children use to evaluate one another. Results suggest that family life education programs that foster knowledge of youth development among Latino parents of immigrant background, as well as interventions that help parents and children identify and bridge their dual frames of reference could benefit Latino families experiencing significant parent-child conflict.Keywords: Latino families, parent-child conflict, acculturation "Our Child is Not Like Us:" Understanding Parent-Child Conflict Among U.S. Latino FamiliesLow-to-moderate levels of parent-child conflict are common among North American families (Laursen, Coy, & Collins, 1998), including ethnic minorities (Chung, Flook, & Fuligni, 2009;Fuligni, 2012). Parent-child conflict may result from maturational processes as well as from youth's violations of parental and societal expectations (see review by Laursen & Collins, 2009). Acculturation perspectives on parent-child conflict also suggest that among families headed by parents who are immigrants or the adult children of immigrants (i.e., parents of immigrant background, PIB) the dynamics of cultural adaptation often lead to discrepant dual frames of reference (i.e., parallel dual frames of reference; Qin, 2006) and acculturation gaps (Szapocznik & Kurtines, 1993). Some research suggests that such cultural discrepancies might become sources of parent-child conflict (Bámaca-Colbert & Gayles, 2010;Cervantes, Fisher, Córdova, & Napper, 2012;Szapocznik & Kurtines, 1993). Parent-child conflict is relevant to family science because it shapes parent-child relationships, parenting practices, family dynamics, and developmental outcomes (Prado et al., 2010;Santisteban, Coatsworth, Briones, Kurtines, & Szapocznik, 2012).In the present study, we sought to delineate salient topics of parent-child conflict among Latino families, as identified by PIB. We focused on Latino PIB because 82% of all adults of immigrant background in the United States are of Latino origin: 47% are foreign-born and 35% are the children of immigrants (Pew Hispanic Center, 2013). Moreover, half of all Latino children in the United States live with at least one foreign-born parent (Fry & Passel, 2009 the development of life education programs a...

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“…For instance Zayas et al [15] conducted a case study on a 35-year old Brazilian woman named Biance to look at the relationship between trauma caused by immigration, substance abuse and suicide. Despite their interesting findings of the link between the three variables mentioned above, by no means were these findings generalizable.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite their interesting findings of the link between the three variables mentioned above, by no means were these findings generalizable. However, in line with the Zayas et al [15] study, a review on immigrants from the Indian subcontinent found that family conflicts are associated with suicide among Indian female immigrants [16]. A more generalizable study examined duration of residence (in the foreign country) as a predictor of suicidality among ethnic minority immigrants [17].…”

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Suicidal Ideation and Attempt among Immigrants in Europe: A Literature Review

Demetry¹,

Dalal²

2017

J Depress Anxiety

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Acculturation, Familism and Mother–Daughter Relations Among Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Adolescent Latinas

Cited by 74 publications

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Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth

Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth

“Our Child Is Not Like Us:” Understanding Parent-Child Conflict Among U.S. Latino Families

Suicidal Ideation and Attempt among Immigrants in Europe: A Literature Review

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