Culture, Context and Mexican American Mental Health

文化、背景和墨西哥裔美国人的心理健康

• 批准号: 6747385
• 负责人: MARK W ROOSA
• 金额: $ 73.2万
• 依托单位: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6747385
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; children; clinical research; community; computer program /software; culture; data collection methodology /evaluation; family structure /dynamics; human puberty; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; mental health; middle childhood (6-11); orientation; psychological adaptation; psychometrics; quality of life; schools; social adjustment; social behavior; social status; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mexican American youth are at higher risk for a number of adaptation problems, including mental health problems, drug abuse, incarceration, school failure and drop out, and teenage pregnancy, than youth from other ethnic groups including other Latino groups. Although Mexican Americans are one of the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic groups in the U.S., very little research has been done to improve understanding of why some Mexican Americans are at very high risk for poor adaptation while others are quite resilient. A person-environment fit perspective is proposed to guide an investigation into how Mexican American children's cultural orientations (i.e., enculturation and acculturation) and the cultural contexts of their family, community, and school account for variation in adaptation within this population. A multi-dimensional measure of both traditional Mexican values (i.e., enculturation) and mainstream U.S. values (acculturation) which we developed and pilot tested will allow us to provide more sensitive tests of the person-environment fit perspective to Mexican American youth than was possible in previous research. We will focus on three Specific Aims: (1) examine interactions between children's cultural orientation and cultural contexts (i.e., family, community, school) as predictors of adaptation; (2) identify mediators of the influences of children's cultural orientation on adjustment and examine whether these relationships depend upon culture x context interactions; and (3) examine the role of children's cultural orientations and cultural contexts as moderators of influences of common risk and protective factors (transition to junior high, puberty, family SES, quality of home environment, quality of community) on their adjustment. A longitudinal study is proposed that will follow 700 Mexican American children through the transition to junior high. Sample selection will begin with the selection of 25-30 school communities in the Phoenix metropolitan area that represent the continuum from very high Mexican American population density and cultural embeddedness to very low. Families will be recruited through schools in these communities. We will use a multiple reporter approach including relevant data from mothers, fathers, target children, teachers, school records, and census data. Most analyses will be accomplished using structural equation modeling and multi-level analysis.

描述（由申请人提供）：墨西哥裔美国青年在一些适应问题，包括心理健康问题，药物滥用，监禁，学业失败和辍学，和少女怀孕的风险较高，比其他种族群体，包括其他拉丁裔群体的青年。虽然墨西哥裔美国人是美国最大和增长最快的族裔群体之一，很少有研究已经完成，以提高理解为什么一些墨西哥裔美国人是在非常高的风险，为穷人的适应，而其他人是相当有弹性。提出了一个人与环境相适应的观点来指导墨西哥裔美国儿童的文化取向（即，文化适应（enculturation and aculturation）以及家庭、社区和学校的文化背景是这一人群适应差异的原因。一个多维度的衡量两个传统的墨西哥价值观（即，文化适应）和美国主流价值观（文化适应），我们开发和试点测试将使我们能够提供更敏感的测试的人与环境的适合角度墨西哥裔美国青年比以前的研究是可能的。我们将重点关注三个 具体目标：（1）研究儿童的文化取向与文化背景之间的相互作用（即，（2）确定儿童文化取向对适应影响的中介变量，并考察这些关系是否依赖于文化×情境的交互作用;（3）检验儿童的文化取向和文化背景对常见危险因素和保护因素影响的调节作用（升学、青春期、家庭社会地位、家庭环境质量、社区质量）对青少年适应的影响。一项纵向研究提出，将遵循700墨西哥裔美国儿童通过过渡到初中。样本选择将开始选择25-30所学校社区在凤凰城大都市区，代表连续从非常高的墨西哥裔美国人的人口密度和文化嵌入到非常低。将通过这些社区的学校招募家庭。我们将使用多报告者方法，包括来自母亲、父亲、目标儿童、教师、学校记录和人口普查数据的相关数据。大多数分析将使用结构方程模型和多层次分析来完成。