Teenagers, Families, and Well-Being

青少年、家庭和福祉

• 批准号: 7532579
• 负责人: SU YEONG KIM
• 金额: $ 7.14万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-25 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7532579
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adolescence; Adolescent; American; Americas; Asia; Asians; Child; Chinese American; Chinese People; Contracts; Country; Data; Development; Developmental Process; Economics; Emotional; Ensure; Family; Fathers; Feeling; Future; Gender; Immigrant; Immigration; Incentives; Intervention; Investigation; Link; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mothers; Motivation; Native-Born; Nature; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Population; Preventive Intervention; Public Health; Rate; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Sampling; Schools; Services; Social Environment; Social Welfare; Surveys; Techniques; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Translating; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; bean; cost; depressive symptoms; driving force; emotional adjustment; experience; interest; migration; programs; response; social; success; theories; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is in response to PA-06-180, NIH Small Research Grant Program (R03). The proposed study focuses on culturally-relevant developmental processes that are important for understanding the successful adjustment of children of immigrants in the United States. In immigrant families, Portes and Rumbaut (2001) identify generational dissonance as a family context that places children at increased risk for poor developmental outcomes. We currently know little about the mediating mechanisms that explain this relationship. Uncovering these mechanisms is important, as they may represent possible targets of intervention to increase the likelihood of successful adjustment among children of immigrants. The proposed study tests whether unsupportive parenting may operate as a mediator of the link between generational dissonance and child outcomes. The study further tests whether fathers' and mothers' parenting independently mediate the proposed relationship. It uses both cross-sectional and longitudinal self-reported survey data from mothers, fathers, and adolescents in Asian immigrant families, specifically Chinese Americans. In summary, there are three research aims. First, to test concurrent and longitudinal relations between generational dissonance and (a) unsupportive parenting, (b) adolescents' depressive symptoms, and (c) school performance. Second, to concurrently and longitudinally test whether unsupportive parenting mediates the relationship between parent-child acculturation discrepancy and adolescents' depressive symptoms and school performance. Third, we aim to test whether parent gender moderates the relationships tested in Aims 1 and 2. The proposed study is relevant to public health because it focuses on the developmental outcomes of children of immigrants, a growing and significant segment of America's children who will represent the future of U.S. workforce. It also focuses on the developmental period of early and middle adolescence, a susceptible period of transition when there are increases in socio-emotional problems that can compromise school performance. Finally, the study has the potential for identifying modifiable mediators that can be used to inform future preventive intervention work with children of immigrants.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是对 PA-06-180、NIH 小型研究资助计划 (R03) 的回应。拟议的研究重点关注与文化相关的发展过程，这对于理解美国移民儿童的成功适应非常重要。在移民家庭中，Portes 和 Rumbaut（2001）将代际失调视为一种家庭环境，使儿童面临更大的不良发展风险。目前我们对解释这种关系的中介机制知之甚少。揭示这些机制很重要，因为它们可能代表可能的干预目标，以增加移民儿童成功适应的可能性。拟议的研究测试了不支持的养育方式是否可以作为代际失调与儿童结局之间联系的中介。该研究进一步测试了父亲和母亲的养育方式是否独立地调节了所提出的关系。它使用了来自亚洲移民家庭（特别是华裔美国人）的母亲、父亲和青少年的横断面和纵向自我报告调查数据。概括起来，研究目标有三个。首先，测试代际失调与（a）不支持的养育方式、（b）青少年的抑郁症状和（c）学校表现之间的并行和纵向关系。其次，同时纵向检验非支持性养育是否介导亲子文化差异与青少年抑郁症状和学校表现之间的关系。第三，我们的目标是测试父母性别是否会调节目标 1 和 2 中测试的关系。拟议的研究与公共卫生相关，因为它关注移民儿童的发展结果，移民儿童是美国儿童中不断增长的重要组成部分，将代表美国劳动力的未来。它还关注青春期早期和中期的发展时期，这是一个容易受到影响的过渡时期，此时社会情感问题增多，可能会影响学校的表现。最后，该研究有可能确定可修改的中介因素，可用于为未来针对移民儿童的预防性干预工作提供信息。