The Role of Culture in Thriving and Risk Behavior in Hispanic Adolescents

文化在西班牙裔青少年的成长和风险行为中的作用

• 批准号: 8270680
• 负责人: SETH J. SCHWARTZ
• 金额: $ 3.16万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-15 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8270680
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Age; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American; Behavior; Behavioral; Caring; Development; Discrimination; Drug usage; Family; Goals; Happiness; Health; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Immigrant; Immigration; Intervention; Lead; Los Angeles; Measures; Mediating; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Parents; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Problem behavior; Process; Reporting; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk-Taking; Role; Schools; Services; Sex Behavior; Site; Social Identification; Specific qualifier value; Sum; Testing; Time; United States; high school; indexing; prevent; theories; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Theory has posited that discrepancies in acculturation between Hispanic adolescents and their parents are associated with conduct problems, drug/alcohol use, and sexual risk taking. These discrepancies may also be associated with compromised levels of positive development. These effects are assumed to occur via poor family functioning. However, empirical tests of the differential acculturation hypothesis have yielded inconsistent results. The proposed study will use a multidimensional model of acculturation - including behaviors, values, and identifications - and will use state-of-the-art latent variable methods to examine parent-adolescent discrepancies in acculturation and their effects on behavioral outcomes through family functioning. 300 Hispanic adolescents and their primary parents will be randomly selected from six public high schools in Miami and from six public high schools in Los Angeles. Adolescents and parents will be assessed twice per year between 9th and 12th grade. Parents and adolescents will complete measures of Hispanic and American cultural behaviors, values, and identifications; family functioning; and adolescent behavior. Adolescents will report on their drug use, sexual behavior, and indices of thriving (prosocial behavior, school grades, and positive attitudes and traits). The results will inform theory regarding the extent to which discrepancies in acculturation lead to compromised family functioning in Hispanic families, and the extent to which these problems in family functioning are associated with conduct problems, drug/alcohol use, sexual risk taking, and impaired thriving. The results will also be important regarding the need to incorporate cultural concerns into efforts to prevent problems and to promote positive development in Hispanic adolescents and families. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed study will examine the ways in which recent-immigrant Hispanic families acculturate to the United States. Specifically, we will examine how the development of cultural differences between Hispanic immigrant parents and adolescents are associated with behavior problems, drug and alcohol use, and sexual risk taking - and with lowered levels of positive development (grades, positive behavior, caring, et cetera) - through family problems. Provided that our hypotheses are supported, this will suggest that family strengthening interventions may be important for Hispanic immigrant families - a sizeable and rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population.

描述（由申请人提供）：理论认为，西班牙裔青少年和他们的父母之间的文化适应差异与行为问题，药物/酒精使用和性冒险有关。这些差异也可能与积极发展水平受损有关。这些影响被认为是通过不良的家庭功能发生的。然而，差异文化适应假说的实证检验得出了不一致的结果。拟议中的研究将使用一个多维的文化适应模型-包括行为，价值观和认同-并将使用国家的最先进的潜变量的方法来检查父母和青少年的文化适应差异及其对行为结果的影响，通过家庭功能。300名西班牙裔青少年和他们的主要父母将从迈阿密的六所公立高中和洛杉矶的六所公立高中随机抽取。青少年和家长将在9年级和12年级之间每年进行两次评估。父母和青少年将完成西班牙裔和美国文化行为，价值观和认同的措施;家庭功能;和青少年行为。青少年将报告他们的药物使用，性行为和蓬勃发展的指数（亲社会行为，学校成绩，积极的态度和特质）。结果将告知理论在何种程度上的差异在文化适应导致西班牙裔家庭的家庭功能受损，以及在何种程度上这些问题在家庭功能与行为问题，药物/酒精使用，性冒险，和受损的繁荣。结果也将是重要的，需要将文化问题纳入努力，以防止问题，并促进西班牙裔青少年和家庭的积极发展。公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究将探讨新移民西班牙裔家庭适应美国的方式。具体来说，我们将研究如何发展的西班牙裔移民父母和青少年之间的文化差异与行为问题，药物和酒精的使用，性冒险-和降低水平的积极发展（成绩，积极的行为，关怀，等等）-通过家庭问题。如果我们的假设得到支持，这将表明，家庭强化干预措施可能是重要的西班牙裔移民家庭-一个相当大的和快速增长的部分美国人口。