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: 7145162
• 负责人: MARK W ROOSA
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 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/7145162
• 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）：墨西哥裔美国青年面临许多适应问题的风险更高，包括精神健康问题、药物滥用、监禁、学业失败和辍学以及少女怀孕，比其他种族群体（包括其他拉丁裔群体）的青年更高。尽管墨西哥裔美国人是美国最大和增长最快的种族之一，但很少有研究来提高人们对为什么一些墨西哥裔美国人适应能力差的风险很高，而另一些墨西哥裔美国人却很有弹性的理解。提出了一个人-环境契合的视角来指导调查墨西哥裔美国儿童的文化取向（即文化适应和文化适应）及其家庭、社区和学校的文化背景如何解释该人群中适应的差异。我们开发和试点测试的墨西哥传统价值观（即，文化适应）和美国主流价值观（文化适应）的多维度测量将使我们能够为墨西哥裔美国青年提供比以前研究更敏感的人-环境适应视角测试。我们将重点关注三个方面