The Effects of Language Brokering Frequency and Feelings on Mexican-Heritage Youth's Mental Health and Risky Behaviors

Kam, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01552.x

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“…Shifren concluded that the long-term effects of caring for parents and family members may not be ''universally negative and pervasive' ' (p. 190). Shifren's conclusions are also supported by other researchers (Gelman & Greer, 2011;Hooper, 2011;Kam, 2011;Vernig, 2011).…”

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“…Cultural factors that support filial responsibility seem to lessen the deleterious consequences of parentification (Hooper & Wallace, 2010;Kam, 2011;Telzer & Fuligni, 2009). Similarly, cultural factors, such as religious beliefs and practices, appear to function as protective factors reducing alcohol consumption among youth (Hill, Burdette, Weiss, & Chitwood, 2009;Walker, Ainette, Wills, & Mendoza, 2007).…”

Section: Moderating Effects Of Parentificationmentioning

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Patterns of Self-Reported Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and Body Mass Index in a Family Sample: The Buffering Effects of Parentification

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Although the impact of parentification on children and adolescents' psychological health and outcomes has long been studied and well documented, little is known about the impact of parentification on children and adolescents' physical health and medical outcomes. Moreover, the potential buffering effects of parentification have been examined very rarely. The data in the current study were collected from an understudied, high-priority adolescent population (N ¼ 51 rural adolescent-parent dyads). The authors examined the bivariate relations between parent health (alcohol use, depressive symptoms, and body mass index [BMI]), adolescent health (alcohol use, depressive symptoms, and BMI), and parentification. The effect size of the significant bivariate correlations ranged from small to large (r ¼ .29 to r ¼ .62). Parentification was positively associated with parent BMI and adolescent depressive symptoms. Parent alcohol use was strongly associated with adolescent alcohol use. Regression analyses were performed to determine if parentification moderates the relation between parental health and adolescent health. Parentification was found to function as a buffer of the relation between parent alcohol use and adolescent alcohol use. Parentification did not function as a moderator of the relation between parent depressive symptoms and adolescent depressive symptoms nor in the relationship between parent BMI and adolescent BMI. However, parentification did moderate the association between parent alcohol use and adolescent depressive symptoms.

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Patterns of Self-Reported Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and Body Mass Index in a Family Sample: The Buffering Effects of Parentification

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“…The challenges of systematic observation have led to an overreliance on anecdotal evidence and retrospective reports (Cline et al 2010:118). Other scholars have collected survey data in schools, treating child brokers as an individual unit of analysis and relying on self-reported data (e.g., Kam 2011;Weisskirch and Alva 2002).…”

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“…"Parentification" is common among children whose parents have addictions or serious illnesses; these role reversals carry wide-ranging risks for young people (e.g., Byng-Hall 2008;Kam 2011). Parentification can occur in immigrant families, but these children are more often desirous of their parents' retained authority, which can also augment their brokering efforts (Katz 2014;Orellana 2009).…”

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Children as Brokers of Their Immigrant Families’ Health-Care Connections

Katz

2014

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In an era of ever-increasing population diversity, bilingual intermediaries have become critical to health-care provision in the United States and elsewhere. Professional interpreters fulfill these roles in many cases, but family members frequently do as well. This article focuses on children of immigrants as brokers of language, culture, and media content who facilitate their families' connections to health-care providers and health-related resources. Children broker in order to compensate for the limited (or nonexistent) accommodations available to their immigrant families when they interact with health-care providers and institutions. As such, children's brokering constitutes an important, often overlooked, linkage between research on immigrant family dynamics and immigrants' interactions with host country institutions. Children's brokering also has implications for their own social, moral, and educational trajectories, which are deeply influenced by their responsibilities to their families. Data collected through field observations and interviews with Latino immigrant parents, their child brokers, and local health-care providers revealed how children's brokering influences these interactions. This article explores providers' perceptions of and interactions with child brokers and their families, taken in context of the institutions in which they work and of the intrafamily dynamics that can facilitate or constrain children's efforts.

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“…Fortunately, the outcomes of language and cultural brokering are not universally negative for these youth. Brokering frequency leaves children little free time to engage in risky behavior, and positive feelings about their brokering may help reduce their risky behaviors (Kam 2011).…”

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12. Culture and competence: Ethnicity and race

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2015

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Increased racial/ethnic diversity and mobility worldwide is leading inevitably to more frequent communication across racial/ethnic cultures where cultural communication competence is vital. Instead of treating cultures as static, demographic categories, we explicate these competencies by adopting the definition in speech code theory that views culture as the codes and practices that accomplish goals. Consequently, cultural communication competence would constitute the codes and practices that help achieve communication goals in specific contexts with specific groups of people. The codes describe the rule systems that define communication competence in various cultures such as the expectations of appropriate and effective communication in a given context. Practices are the enactments of competent communication often considered skills. Finally, functions describe desirable communication outcomes and provide an understanding of what it takes to achieve those outcomes. Lack of communication competence across racial/ ethnic cultures is implicated in adverse physical, psychological, educational, and relational outcomes. The chapter uses the health context as an exemplar to examine how codes and practices affect health outcomes and how interventions can improve cultural health communication competencies.

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The Effects of Language Brokering Frequency and Feelings on Mexican-Heritage Youth's Mental Health and Risky Behaviors

Cited by 84 publications

References 51 publications

Patterns of Self-Reported Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and Body Mass Index in a Family Sample: The Buffering Effects of Parentification

Patterns of Self-Reported Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and Body Mass Index in a Family Sample: The Buffering Effects of Parentification

Children as Brokers of Their Immigrant Families’ Health-Care Connections

12. Culture and competence: Ethnicity and race

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