Parental perceived immigration threat and children's mental health, self-regulation and executive functioning in pre-Kindergarten.
Parental perceived immigration threat and children's mental health, self-regulation and executive functioning in pre-Kindergarten.
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DOI：
10.1037/ort0000591
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Brotman, Laurie Miller
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作者：
Barajas-Gonzalez, R Gabriela;Ursache, Alexandra;Kamboukos, Dimitra;Huang, Keng-Yen;Dawson-McClure, Spring;Urcuyo, Anya;Huang, Tiffany June Jay;Brotman, Laurie Miller
许多移民家庭的儿童承受着美国国家、州和地方移民政策和执法活动所形成的独特压力。定性研究发现，在加强移民执法的时期，年仅三岁的儿童表现出与民族反移民情绪和失去父母的可能性有关的行为困扰迹象。使用多个来源的数据，从168个种族和民族多样化的家庭的儿童在幼儿园前，本研究探讨了变化的移民执法的威胁，由父母的移民身份和种族的感知水平。本研究探讨移民执法威胁和儿童心理健康，自我调节和执行功能之间的关联，以及父母移民身份或儿童性别是否缓和这些协会。我们发现在感知移民威胁的实质性变化，与移民父母和拉丁裔父母相比，非移民父母和非拉丁裔父母报告的移民威胁水平显着更高。移民执法威胁与更大的儿童分离焦虑和过度焦虑行为有关，男孩和女孩以及移民和美国出生父母的孩子的自我调节能力较低。与我们的假设相反，移民执法的威胁与更高的自我监管根据独立评估评级。教育工作者和医疗服务提供者与来自移民和拉丁裔家庭的幼儿工作应该意识到，由于仇外的社会政治气候，移民和拉丁裔家庭经历了不成比例的压力，其特点是移民执法威胁加剧和种族主义，反移民言论。
Many children in immigrant households endure unique stressors shaped by national, state and local immigration policies and enforcement activity in the United States. Qualitative studies find that during times of heightened immigration enforcement, children as young as three years of age show signs of behavioral distress related to national anti-immigrant sentiment and the possibility of losing a parent. Using multiple sources of data from 168 racially and ethnically diverse families of children in pre-Kindergarten, the present study examined variability in perceived levels of immigration enforcement threat by parental immigrant status and ethnicity. This study examined associations between immigration enforcement threat and child mental health, self-regulation, and executive functioning and whether parent immigrant status or child gender moderate these associations. We found substantial variability in perceived immigration threat, with immigrant parents and Latinx parents reporting significantly greater levels of immigration threat compared to non-immigrant parents and non-Latinx parents. Immigration enforcement threat was associated with greater child separation anxiety and overanxious behaviors, and lower self-regulation among boys and girls and among children of immigrant and US-born parents. In contrast to our hypothesis, immigration enforcement threat was associated with higher self-regulation according to independent assessor ratings. Educators and healthcare providers working with young children from immigrant and Latinx households should be aware of the disproportionate stress experienced by immigrant and Latinx families due to a xenophobic sociopolitical climate marked by heightened immigration enforcement threat and racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric.