Book Review: Latino Families Therapy: A Guide to Multicultural           Practice

Juliá, María

doi:10.1177/104438940008100601

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“…Some cultural factors may enhance PSE and parenting. For example, immigrant parents who have effectively negotiated the challenges of emigration and acculturation in order to improve opportunities for themselves and their children could experience increased overall selfefficacy (Falicov, 2000). This overall self-efficacy could translate into increased parenting self-efficacy and perhaps more vigilant parenting control practices designed to promote children's behavior that is aligned with cultural values such as "bien educados" (positive behavior) and "sympatia" (harmonious relations) and, at the same time, insulate their children from American mainstream values and negative neighborhood influences perceived to threaten their aspirations for their children (Halgunseth, Ispa, & Rudy, 2006).…”

Section: Mexican American Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting self-efficacy and parenting practices over time in Mexican American families.

Dumka

Gonzales

Wheeler

et al. 2010

Journal of Family Psychology

115

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Drawing on social cognitive theory, this study used a longitudinal cross-lagged panel design and a structural equation modeling approach to evaluate parenting self-efficacy's reciprocal and causal associations with parents' positive control practices over time to predict adolescents' conduct problems. Data were obtained from teachers, mothers, and adolescents in 189 Mexican American families living in the southwest U.S. After accounting for contemporaneous reciprocal relationships between parenting self-efficacy (PSE) and positive control, results indicated that parenting self-efficacy predicted future positive control practices rather than the reverse. PSE also showed direct effects on decreased adolescent conduct problems. PSE functioned in an antecedent causal role in relation to parents' positive control practices and adolescents' conduct problems in this sample. These results support the cross-cultural applicability of social cognitive theory to parenting in Mexican American families. An implication is that parenting interventions aimed at preventing adolescent conduct problems need to focus on elevating the PSE of Mexican American parents with low levels of PSE. In addition, future research should seek to specify the most effective strategies for enhancing PSE.

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Section: Mexican American Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%