ECOLOGICAL MODEL OF WELL-BEING IN MINORITY ADOLESCENTS

这项拟议的研究将检验生态模型的实用性。 因为它与正常青少年的社交和情感有关 在两个少数群体内的发展。黑人和中国人- 美国人。采用为期三年的纵向设计 父母背景、家庭的多项测量评估 环境和青少年发展。父母和 青少年将接受评估。一个生态模型强调了 家庭环境在影响儿童中的重要性 事态的发展。它还强调，家庭功能是 受父母环境的影响。父母的两个方面 背景调查：父母的社会支持网络和 父母的工作环境。 多元回归技术与结构方程 将利用建模来检验直接和间接 假设这些关系被低估的过程。这个 这项研究产生的信息将为我们提供更多 全面描绘“非农发展”的背景 离经叛道的少数族裔青少年，他们已经非常 未得到充分研究。集团内部纵向分析，在 尤其是，将产生执行的重要信息 具有文化敏感性的预防工作和旨在 增进少数民族青年和他们的福祉 家人。

The proposed study will examine the utility of an ecological model as it related to normal adolescent social and emotional development within two minority groups. Blacks and Chinese- Americans. A three-year longitudinal design is employed with multiple measure assessment of the parental context, family environment, and adolescent development. Both parents and adolescents will be assessed. An ecological model stresses the importance of the family environment in influencing child developments. It also emphasizes that family functioning is influenced by the parental context. Two aspects of the parental context are examined: parents' social support networks and parents' work environments. Multivariate regression techniques and structural equation modeling will be utilized to examine the direct and indirect processes hypothesized to underly these relationships. The information generated from this study will provide us with a more comprehensive portrait of the context of development for "non- deviant" minority adolescents, which have been extremely understudied. The within-group longitudinal analyses, in particular, will yield important information of the implementation of culturally sensitive prevention efforts and public policy aimed and enhancing the well-being of minority youths and their families.