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危险行为中的作用

• 批准号: 7560921
• 负责人: SETH J. SCHWARTZ
• 金额: $ 64.24万
• 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/7560921
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Age; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American; Arts; Behavior; Behavioral; Caring; Development; Discrimination; Drug usage; Family; Goals; Happiness; 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; public health relevance; 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）：理论假设西班牙裔青少年与其父母之间的文化适应差异与行为问题、吸毒/酗酒和性冒险有关。这些差异也可能与积极发展水平受损有关。这些影响被认为是由于家庭功能不佳造成的。然而，差异文化适应假说的实证检验产生了不一致的结果。该研究将使用文化适应的多维模型——包括行为、价值观和身份认同——并将使用最先进的潜在变量方法来检查父母-青少年在文化适应方面的差异及其通过家庭功能对行为结果的影响。300名西班牙裔青少年及其主要父母将从迈阿密的6所公立高中和洛杉矶的6所公立高中中随机抽取。在9年级到12年级之间，青少年和家长每年将接受两次评估。家长和青少年将完成西班牙和美国文化行为、价值观和认同的测量；家庭功能;还有青少年的行为。青少年将报告他们的药物使用、性行为和繁荣指数（亲社会行为、学校成绩、积极的态度和特征）。研究结果将为以下方面提供理论依据：文化适应差异在多大程度上导致西班牙裔家庭的家庭功能受损，以及这些家庭功能问题在多大程度上与行为问题、吸毒/酗酒、性冒险和成长受损有关。在需要将文化问题纳入预防问题和促进西班牙裔青少年和家庭的积极发展的努力方面，其结果也将是重要的。公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究将检查新移民西班牙裔家庭融入美国的方式。具体来说，我们将研究西班牙裔移民父母和青少年之间文化差异的发展如何与行为问题、吸毒和酗酒、性冒险以及通过家庭问题降低积极发展水平（成绩、积极行为、关怀等）联系在一起。如果我们的假设得到支持，这将表明家庭强化干预可能对西班牙裔移民家庭很重要——这是美国人口中一个相当大且快速增长的部分。