ECOLOGICAL MODEL OF WELL-BEING IN MINORITY ADOLESCENTS

拟议的研究将探讨生态模式的效用 因为它与正常的青少年社会和情感有关 两个少数民族的发展。 黑人和中国人- 美国人 采用三年纵向设计， 对父母背景、家庭、 环境和青少年发展。 父母和 将对青少年进行评估。 生态模型强调 家庭环境在影响儿童方面的重要性 发展理念 它还强调，家庭功能是 受父母背景的影响。 父母的两个方面 背景审查：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 模型将被用来检查直接和间接的 假设这些关系的基础过程。 的 这项研究产生的信息将为我们提供更多 全面描绘“非”发展背景 “离经叛道”的少数民族青少年， 替补演员 组内纵向分析， 特别是，将产生实施的重要信息， 对文化敏感的预防工作和公共政策， 促进少数民族青年及其 家庭

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.