Immigrant Youth Resilience: Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Developments, and Future Directions

Motti‐Stefanidi, Frosso; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; He, Jinbo

doi:10.1111/jora.12656

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“…A temporal perspective of acculturation allows researchers to integrate a more developmental understanding into studies of migration and acculturation, which has been advocated by developmental (e.g., Juang & Syed, 2019; Motti‐Stefanidi et al, 2021) and acculturation scholars (Ward & Szabó, 2019). This integration provides new perspectives on the outcomes studied.…”

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New temporal concepts of acculturation in immigrant youth

Titzmann

2022

Child Dev Perspectives

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Acculturation unfolds over time, but research on acculturation often does not account for developmental processes. Recent studies introduced several novel temporal concepts of acculturation processes to understand more fully how immigrant youth adapt to new cultural contexts. In this review, we describe these new temporal concepts of acculturation: Acculturative timing refers to youth's age at time of migration (chronological timing), the actual start of acculturative changes (which may occur before or after physical migration, also called transition timing), and the deviation in acculturative change from peers and relevant others from the same cohort and context (relative timing). Acculturation tempo is the duration of acculturation processes from start to a defined end. Acculturation pace is the speed at which acculturation occurs. Acculturation synchrony describes whether adaptation unfolds at the same or different times across different spheres of life.We also present empirical evidence for the predictive utility of the new temporal concepts and provide methodological guidelines on how to measure and assess these concepts.

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New temporal concepts of acculturation in immigrant youth

Titzmann

2022

Child Dev Perspectives

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“…To capture complex dynamic effects on immigrant youth adaptation, development, and acculturation, including bidirectional and cascade effects, as well as to disentangle developmental and acculturative change, a longitudinal design is required. However, a review of empirical articles focusing on individual differences in immigrant youth adaptation, published during the past decade, revealed that just over half of the studies had a longitudinal design (Motti-Stefanidi et al, 2021).…”

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Immigrant youth resilience in the context of challenging receiving societies.

Motti‐Stefanidi¹

2023

APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development.

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“…Immigrant children exhibit significant variation in their mental health outcomes despite disproportionate exposure to socio-economic adversity compared to their non-immigrant peers [ 1 ]. Identifying the factors that matter most for immigrant children’s mental health, particularly in their most proximal environments of the family and neighbourhood, can help to elucidate why some immigrant children thrive while others falter, which in turn can inform targets for interventions [ 2 ]. Such evidence has significant implications for immigrant-receiving societies such as Canada, where over a third of all children under 15 has at least one foreign‑born parent and population projections estimate that half will be of immigrant background by 2035 [ 3 ].…”

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Neighbourhood and family correlates of immigrant children’s mental health: a population-based cross-sectional study in Canada

Sim

Georgiades

2022

BMC Psychiatry

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Background Immigrant children exhibit significant variation in their mental health outcomes despite disproportionate exposure to socio-economic adversity compared to their non-immigrant peers. Identifying aspects of neighbourhood and family contexts that are most salient for immigrant children’s mental health can help to inform and target interventions to prevent mental disorder and promote mental well-being among this population. Methods The study analyzed multi-informant data from 943 first- and second-generation immigrant caregiver and child dyads from the Hamilton Youth Study, a representative sample of immigrant and non-immigrant families in Hamilton, Ontario. Multivariate multilevel regression models examined associations between neighbourhood and family characteristics and processes, and parent and child self reports of internalizing and externalizing problems. Results Positive and negative parenting behaviours were significantly associated with internalizing and externalizing problems, with negative parenting demonstrating associations with externalizing problems across both parent and child reports (b = 0.26–1.27). Neighbourhood social disorder and parental trauma exposure were associated with greater internalizing and externalizing problems, and neighbourhood immigrant concentration was associated with fewer externalizing problems for parent reports only. Adding parental distress and parenting behaviour to the models reduced the coefficients for parental trauma exposure by 37.2% for internalizing problems and 32.5% for externalizing problems and rendered the association with neighbourhood social disorder non-significant. Besides the parenting variables, there were no other significant correlates of child-reported internalizing and externalizing problems. Conclusions Results highlight the importance of parenting behaviour and parental experiences of trauma and distress for immigrant children’s mental health. While not unique to immigrants, the primacy of these processes for immigrant children and families warrants particular attention given the heightened risk of exposure to migration-related adverse experiences that threaten parental and family well-being. To prevent or mitigate downstream effects on child mental health, it is imperative to invest in developing and testing trauma-informed and culturally responsive mental health and parenting interventions for immigrant families.

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Immigrant Youth Resilience: Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Developments, and Future Directions

Cited by 25 publications

References 142 publications

New temporal concepts of acculturation in immigrant youth

New temporal concepts of acculturation in immigrant youth

Immigrant youth resilience in the context of challenging receiving societies.

Neighbourhood and family correlates of immigrant children’s mental health: a population-based cross-sectional study in Canada

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