Author: Preethy Elizabeth GeorgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American students
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Influence of Mexican American Adolescent and Maternal Cultural Orientation on Family Context and Academic Motivation
Author: Preethy Elizabeth GeorgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican American students
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Mexican American Children and Families
Author: Yvonne M. CalderaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317805011
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Offering insight on Mexican American culture, families, and children, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of this growing population. Leaders from psychology, education, health, and social policy review recent research and provide policy implications of their findings. Both quantitative and qualitative literature is summarized. Using current theories, the handbook reviews the cultural, social, and inter- and intra-personal experiences that contribute to the well-being of Mexican Americans. Each chapter follows the same format to make comparisons easier. Researchers and students from various disciplines interested in Mexican Americans will appreciate this accessible book.
Gender Roles in Immigrant Families
Author: Susan S. ChuangPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461467357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Researchers recognize that theoretical frameworks and models of child development and family dynamics have historically overlooked the ways in which developmental processes are shaped by socio-cultural contexts. Ecological and acculturation frameworks are especially central to understanding the experiences of immigrant populations, and current research has yielded new conceptual and methodological tools for documenting the cultural and developmental processes of children and their families. Within this broad arena, a question of central importance is on how gender roles in immigrant families play out in the lives of children and families. Gender Roles in Immigrant Families places gender at the forefront of the research by investigating how it interplays with parental roles, parent–child relationships, and child outcomes.
The Role of Mexican American Siblings in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Author: Sue Annie Rodríguez De JesúsPublisher:
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Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Siblings are a salient part of family life; however, few studies have explored the role of siblings on youths' cultural development and educational expectations. In the current dissertation, two studies address this gap in the literature by using longitudinal data from 246 Mexican-origin sibling pairs and their mothers and fathers. The first study examined how older siblings' cultural orientations and values uniquely contribute to younger siblings' cultural orientations and values from late adolescence to young adulthood, after accounting for mothers' and fathers' cultural orientations and values; further, it was explored the role of sibling modeling and sibling characteristics as moderators of these associations. Findings revealed that older siblings' cultural orientations and values contribute to younger siblings' cultural orientations and values from late adolescence into young adulthood. Specifically, under conditions of high sibling modeling, younger siblings reported higher levels of Anglo orientation and familism values. Whereas, fathers' orientations were positively associated with younger siblings' Anglo and Mexican orientations and mothers' values were predictive of younger siblings' familism values. Together, the findings suggest that siblings and parents play different roles in youths' cultural development. The second study explored the reciprocal associations between older and younger siblings' educational expectations from early/middle adolescence to middle/late adolescence and from middle/late adolescence to young adulthood. In this study it was tested the moderating role of family immigrant context and sibling characteristics in the association between older and younger siblings' educational expectations. Findings revealed that older siblings' educational expectations at T1 predicted younger siblings' educational expectations at T2. Further, older siblings' educational expectations at T2 continued to influence younger siblings' educational expectations at T3, and younger siblings' educational expectations at T2 also predicted older siblings' educational expectations at T3. Family immigrant context moderated the association from older siblings' educational expectations at T2 to younger siblings' educational expectations at T3, such that the association was significant for immigrant-born families, but not for U.S.-born/Mixed-status families. Our study highlights the value of siblings' roles, particularly in immigrant families, as youth make important decisions about their educational pursuits.
Family Conflict Among Chinese- and Mexican-Origin Adolescents and Their Parents in the U.S.
Author: Linda P. JuangPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118309111
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Gain a nuanced understanding of parent-adolescent conflict in Chinese- and Mexican-origin families in the United States. This volume explores key issues related to family conflict such as acculturation gaps parent and adolescent internal conflicts conflict resolution seeking out confidants for help in coping with conflict. This volume showcases the complexity of conflict among Chinese- and Mexican-origin families and furthers our understanding of how both developmental and cultural sources of parent-adolescent conflict are linked to adjustment.
Examining Neighborhood, Maternal, and Cultural Influences on Mexican-origin Adolescent Mothers' Educational Outcomes
Author: Elizabeth C. Harvey-MendozaPublisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Mexican-origin adolescent females have the highest birthrate of all other ethnic groups in the United States. Further, teen mothers are at significant risk for poor outcomes, including low educational attainment. Therefore, examining predictors of Mexican-origin teen mothers' educational attainment was the main goal of the current study. Future-oriented beliefs such as educational aspirations and expectations are suggested to have positive implications for adolescents' educational attainment in general. Therefore, guided by bioecological, social capital, status attainment, social learning, and collective socialization of neighborhood theories, the current study examined neighborhood, maternal, and cultural predictors of 190 Mexican-origin parenting adolescents' educational aspirations, expectations, and attainment. With respect to maternal predictors, the study examined mother figures' (i.e., grandmothers') educational attainment, and aspirations and expectations for the adolescent as predictors of adolescents' educational attainment. Using a multi-informant, longitudinal analytic model, results suggest that adolescents' educational expectations, rather than aspirations, significantly predicted adolescents' attainment one year later. Additionally, grandmothers' educational attainment was indirectly associated with adolescents' educational attainment via the educational expectations of both the grandmother and the adolescent. Further, the neighborhood context indirectly informed adolescents' educational attainment via both grandmothers and adolescents' educational expectations. Finally, adolescents' ethnic identity affirmation was significantly associated with adolescents' educational attainment two years later. Implications regarding the importance of educational expectations and ethnic identity affirmation for at-risk parenting adolescents' educational attainment will be discussed.
Family Influences on Mexican Americans' Motivation to Attend Higher Education
Author: Monica T. HuangThe Handbook of Culture and Biology
Author: Jose M. CausadiasPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119181348
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to empirical and theoretical research advances in culture and biology interplay Culture and biology are considered as two domains of equal importance and constant coevolution, although they have traditionally been studied in isolation. The Handbook of Culture and Biology is a comprehensive resource that focuses on theory and research in culture and biology interplay. This emerging field centers on how these two processes have evolved together, how culture, biology, and environment influence each other, and how they shape behavior, cognition, and development among humans and animals across multiple levels, types, timeframes, and domains of analysis. The text provides an overview of current empirical and theoretical advances in culture and biology interplay research through the work of some of the most influential scholars in the field. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplines (e.g., biology, neuroscience, primatology, psychology) and research methods (experiments, genetic epidemiology, naturalistic observations, neuroimaging), it explores diverse topics including animal culture, cultural genomics, and neurobiology of cultural experiences. The authors also advance the field by discussing key challenges and limitations in current research. The Handbook of Culture and Biology is an important resource that: Gathers related research areas into the single, cohesive field of culture and biology interplay Offers a unique and comprehensive collection from leading and influential scholars Contains information from a wide range of disciplines and research methods Introduces well-validated and coherently articulated conceptual frameworks Written for scholars in the field, this handbook brings together related areas of research and theory that have traditionally been disjointed into the single, cohesive field of culture and biology interplay.
The Positive Development of Mexican American Youth
Author: Maciel Mora HernándezPublisher:
ISBN: 9781321211603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This dissertation examines the development of academic adjustment and ethnic identity among early adolescents of Mexican-origin, primarily children of immigrant parents (91% 1st or 2nd generation youth). My dissertation extends previous research by examining child development within a cultural context. My first paper examines the role of parent cultural socialization in the development of ethnic identity in early adolescence. Findings indicated that mother and father cultural socialization efforts had positive effects on later ethnic identity in youth. This association was strongest when parents showed higher levels of warmth toward their child in an observed interaction task. My second paper examines the longitudinal association between student sense of belonging in school and two positive academic outcome measures. This study also examined the impact of generational and socioeconomic status. Results demonstrated that school belonging positively predicted later academic adjustment and goals in youth but that academic measures did not predict later levels of school belonging. In addition, there were significant effects of generational and socioeconomic status on positive academic outcomes, partly replicating previous research on similar academic processes. These two studies contribute to current understanding of how family and school contexts positively impact the development of two indicators of personal well-being, ethnic identity and academic adjustment, among Mexican-origin adolescents. Esta tesis doctoral examina el desarrollo académico y de identidad cultural entre jóvenes adolescentes de origen mexicano, la mayoría hijos de padres inmigrantes (91% de los jóvenes de primera o segunda generación en los Estados Unidos). Mi tesis extiende estudios anteriores al examinar el desarrollo en un contexto cultural. Mi primer artículo examina el papel de la socialización cultural por parte de los padres en el desarrollo de la identidad cultural en la adolescencia. Los resultados indicaron que los esfuerzos de socialización cultural por parte de madres y padres, tienen efectos positivos en la el desarrollo de la identidad cultural en los jóvenes. Esta asociación entre padre e hijo resulto ser más fuerte cuando los padres mostraron niveles altos de afecto hacia su hijo mediante una interacción observada. Mi segundo artículo examina la asociación entre la experiencia de pertenencia escolar y logros académicos. Este estudio también examinó el impacto de la generación migratoria y el estado socioeconómico de la familia. Los resultados demostraron que la experiencia de pertenencia escolar predijo positivamente los logros académicos y las metas escolares de los jóvenes. Los logros académicos y las metas escolares no impactaron la experiencia de pertenencia escolar de los jóvenes, implicando que es importante que los jóvenes primero sientan pertenencia escolar para poder lograr sus metas académicas. Además, hubo efectos significantes en los logros académicos y las metas escolares basados en la generación migratoria y el estado socioeconómico de la familia. Ambos estudios contribuyen a la comprensión actual de cómo las familias y escuelas tienen un impacto positivo en el bienestar de niños y adolescentes de origen mexicano.