Teenagers, Families, and Well-Being

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)的响应。这项拟议的研究侧重于与文化相关的发展过程，这些过程对于理解美国移民子女的成功适应非常重要。在移民家庭中，Portes和Rhumaut(2001)认为代际不和谐是一种家庭背景，会使儿童面临更大的不良发展结果风险。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，因为它们可能是干预的目标，以增加移民子女成功适应的可能性。这项拟议的研究测试了不支持的父母教育是否可能作为代际不和谐和孩子结果之间的联系的中介。这项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拟议中的关系。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，本文的研究目标有三个。首先，测试代际不和谐与(A)不支持父母教养、(B)青少年抑郁症状和(C)学校表现之间的同步和纵向关系。第二，同时和纵向检验父母教养方式不支持是否在亲子文化适应差异与青少年抑郁症状和学业成绩之间起中介作用。第三，我们的目标是测试父母性别是否调节了目标1和目标2中测试的关系。这项拟议的研究与公共健康相关，因为它关注移民子女的发展结果，移民子女是美国未来劳动力的一个日益增长的重要组成部分。它还侧重于青春期早期和中期的发展阶段，这是一个易受影响的过渡期，此时社会情感问题增加，可能影响学校表现。最后，这项研究有可能确定可修改的介体，可用于指导未来对移民子女的预防性干预工作。

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.