Mother-Child Adjustment in Arab Immigrants and Refugees

阿拉伯移民和难民的母子调整

基本信息

批准号：
7157002
负责人：
Thomas Norbert Templin
金额：
$ 45.81万
依托单位：
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-04-01 至 2008-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescence is a difficult developmental transition for foreign-born mothers and their children. The typical identity issues and peer pressure associated with this developmental transition for adolescents of foreign parentage are complicated by living in two cultures with conflicting norms and values. Yet, little is known about their adjustment. Even less is known about the parenting of foreign-born mothers or the effects of their stress on parenting during adolescence. These issues are even greater for Arab Muslim immigrants because their culture is markedly different from dominant US values. This longitudinal study of Arab Muslim immigrant and refugee mothers and their children will investigate stress, coping, social support, and parent-child relationship from the dual perspective of mothers and youth. The pathways in a causal model of how maternal, family, and child variables affect child psychosocial adjustment will be examined during transition into early and late adolescence. Study aims are to: 1) determine the baseline relationships in a causal model of maternal and child stress, coping, and social support; socio-demographic risk; maternal adjustment; parent-child relationships; and child psychosocial adjustment for pre- and early adolescent Arab youth, and 2) determine the stability of the pathways of the above variables for explaining the adjustment of Arab youth, 18 and 36 months later during transitions into early and late adolescence. Data about maternal, family, and child variables will be collected from 608 mother-child dyads at baseline when the child is a pre- or early adolescent and at 18 and 36 months later to capture transition into later stages of adolescence. Structural equation modeling will be used to develop a model of the baseline relationships among the latent variables and examine the model's ability to predict adjustment outcomes at 18 and 36 months. Model stability will be evaluated by assessing systematic change in the latent variables over time, determining the reliability of the change, and obtaining empirical Bayes (EB) estimates of individual true score change. A change score model, incorporating EB estimates, will determine how changes in the latent variables are related to the 18- and 36-month child adjustment outcomes. Information from the proposed study is needed to develop service delivery programs for this vulnerable population of women and children, particularly to determine the relative value of interventions focused on inter/intrapersonal dynamics versus contextual/environmental features.

描述（由申请人提供）：青春期是外国出生的母亲及其子女的艰难发展。典型的身份问题和与这种发展过渡相关的外国父母青少年的发展压力使生活在两个具有冲突规范和价值观相互矛盾的文化中变得复杂。然而，对它们的调整知之甚少。关于外国出生的母亲的育儿或他们在青春期育儿的影响的知之甚少。对于阿拉伯穆斯林移民而言，这些问题甚至更大，因为它们的文化与美国的主要价值观明显不同。这项对阿拉伯穆斯林移民和难民母亲及其子女的纵向研究将从母亲和青年的双重角度研究压力，应对，社会支持和亲子关系。在过渡到青春期早期和晚期的因果关系模型中，将检查产妇，家庭和儿童变量如何影响儿童社会心理适应的途径。研究目的是：1）确定母亲和儿童压力，应对和社会支持的因果模型中的基线关系；社会人口统计学风险；孕产妇调整；亲子关系；以及儿童的心理心理调整，以调整前和早期青春期的阿拉伯青年，以及2）确定上述变量的稳定性，以解释阿拉伯青年的调整，18和36个月后，在过渡到早期和晚期的早期和晚期。有关母亲，家庭和儿童变量的数据将从基线的608个母子二元组收集，当时儿童是青春期前或早期，并且在18和36个月后，以捕获过渡到青春期的后期。结构方程模型将用于开发潜在变量之间基线关系的模型，并检查模型在18和36个月时预测调整结果的能力。模型稳定性将通过评估潜在变量随时间变化的系统变化，确定变化的可靠性，并获得个人真实分数变化的经验贝叶斯（EB）估计值来评估。结合EB估计的变更分数模型将确定潜在变量的变化与18个月和36个月的儿童调整结果如何相关。需要来自拟议的研究的信息来为妇女和儿童的这种脆弱人群制定服务提供计划，特别是为了确定针对人际/内部动力学与上下文/环境特征的干预措施的相对价值。