Discrimination in Latinx families' linked lives: Examining the roles of family process and youth worries.
Discrimination in Latinx families' linked lives: Examining the roles of family process and youth worries.
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DOI：
10.1037/fam0000959
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发表时间：
2022-06
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Zhao, Chang
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作者：
Nair, Rajni L;White, Rebecca M B;Roche, Kathleen M;Zhao, Chang
我们的目标是测试一个前瞻性间接效应模型，以检验母亲和青少年遭受歧视是否通过母亲温暖和家庭反移民行为改变与青少年适应（即 GPA、内化症状和外化症状）相关，以及青少年反移民担忧是否限定了这些关系。先前的研究表明，个人遭受民族歧视与拉丁裔青少年的适应能力差有关。很少有研究从家庭角度评估歧视的影响，或侧重于确定歧视影响青少年适应的机制。使用的数据来自两年内 547 名拉丁裔青少年（55% 为女性；88.1% 美国出生）的学校样本。使用 Mplus 中的结构方程模型测试研究假设。青少年的歧视暴露与母亲温暖的干扰导致的较差的适应能力有关，而母亲的歧视暴露则与家庭反移民行为改变所导致的青少年内化症状的降低有关。此外，在青少年更强烈的反移民担忧的背景下，温暖、内化和 GPA 之间的预期负相关关系被削弱。通过探讨家庭背景下的歧视并研究歧视影响青少年适应的机制，该研究更全面地描述了歧视可能对拉丁裔青少年的家庭生活造成的有害影响。
Our goal was to test a prospective indirect effects model to examine whether maternal and youth exposures to discrimination were linked to adolescent adjustment (i.e., GPA, internalizing symptoms and externalizing symptoms) via maternal warmth and family anti-immigrant behavior modifications and whether youth anti-immigrant worries qualified these relations. Prior research has demonstrated that individual exposures to ethnic-racial discrimination are associated with poor adjustment among Latinx adolescents. Less research has evaluated the impact of discrimination from a family lens or focused on identifying the mechanism via which discrimination impacts adolescent adjustment. Data from a school-based sample of 547 Latinx adolescents (55% female; 88.1% U.S. born) across two years was used. Study hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling in Mplus. Whereas adolescents’ discrimination exposures were associated with poorer adjustment via disruptions to maternal warmth, mothers’ discrimination exposures were associated with lowered adolescent internalizing symptoms via family anti-immigrant behavior modifications. Further, prospective negative relations between warmth and internalizing and GPA were attenuated in the context of adolescents’ greater anti-immigrant worries. By exploring discrimination in the family context and examining mechanisms via which discrimination impacts adolescent adjustment, the study offers a more comprehensive picture of the pernicious toll discrimination can have on the family lives of Latinx youth.