Teenagers, Families, and Well-Being

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是对PA-06-180， NIH小额研究资助计划（R03）的回应。拟议的研究侧重于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）认为代际失调是一种家庭环境，使儿童面临更大的不良发展结果风险。我们目前对解释这种关系的中介机制知之甚少。揭示这些机制是重要的，因为它们可能代表干预的可能目标，以增加移民儿童成功适应的可能性。提出的研究测试不支持的父母是否可能作为代际失调和儿童结局之间的联系的中介。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。综上所述，有三个研究目的。首先，测试代际失调与(a)不支持性父母，(b)青少年抑郁症状和(c)学校表现之间的并发和纵向关系。第二，平行纵向检验非支持性养育是否在亲子文化适应差异、青少年抑郁症状和学业成绩之间起中介作用。第三，我们的目的是测试父母性别是否会调节目标1和目标2中测试的关系。这项拟议的研究与公共卫生有关，因为它关注移民儿童的发展结果，移民儿童是美国儿童中日益增长的重要组成部分，他们将代表美国未来的劳动力。它还关注青少年早期和中期的发育时期，这是一个易受影响的过渡时期，在这个时期，社会情感问题的增加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，可用于告知未来对移民儿童的预防干预工作。

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.