Filling Gaps in the Acculturation Gap-Distress Model: Heritage Cultural Maintenance and Adjustment in Mexican-American Families.
Filling Gaps in the Acculturation Gap-Distress Model: Heritage Cultural Maintenance and Adjustment in Mexican-American Families.
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填补文化适应差距困境模型中的差距：墨西哥裔美国家庭的遗产文化维护和调整。
DOI：
10.1007/s10964-015-0408-8
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Fuligni,AndrewJ
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作者：
Telzer,EvaH;Yuen,Cynthia;Gonzales,Nancy;Fuligni,AndrewJ
文化适应差距-痛苦模型声称，移民儿童比他们的父母更快地适应文化，导致文化适应差距，从而导致家庭和青少年适应不良。然而，对文化适应差距-困境模型的实证支持一直没有定论。在目前的研究中，428名墨西哥裔美国青少年(50.2%是女性)和他们的主要照顾者独立完成了问卷调查，评估了他们在美国和墨西哥的文化取向、家庭功能和青年适应水平。与文化适应差距-痛苦模型相反，文化适应差距与较差的家庭或青年功能无关。相反，墨西哥文化取向水平较高的青少年表现出积极的结果，无论他们的父母对美国或墨西哥文化的取向如何。研究结果表明，青少年对遗产文化的维护可能是他们适应的最重要的因素。
The acculturation gap-distress model purports that immigrant children acculturate faster than do their parents, resulting in an acculturation gap that leads to family and youth maladjustment. However, empirical support for the acculturation gap-distress model has been inconclusive. In the current study, 428 Mexican–American adolescents (50.2 % female) and their primary caregivers independently completed questionnaires assessing their levels of American and Mexican cultural orientation, family functioning, and youth adjustment. Contrary to the acculturation gap-distress model, acculturation gaps were not associated with poorer family or youth functioning. Rather, adolescents with higher levels of Mexican cultural orientations showed positive outcomes, regardless of their parents’ orientations to either American or Mexican cultures. Findings suggest that youths’ heritage cultural maintenance may be most important for their adjustment.