University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1025 W. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2012 Sep;50(1-2):182-96. doi: 10.1007/s10464-012-9488-8.
Child culture brokering occurs when immigrant children help their families navigate the new culture and language. The present study develops a model of the child culture broker role that situates it within the family and community economic and acculturative contexts of 328 families from the former Soviet Union. Path analysis was utilized to explore the relationships of community and family economic and cultural contexts with child culture brokering, child emotional distress, and family disagreements. All children reported some culture brokering for their parents. Less English proficient parents with lower status jobs, and living in areas with more Russian speaking families tended to utilize their children as brokers more often. Further, community economic conditions also predicted brokering indirectly, mediated by parent job social status. Brokering was related to child emotional distress and family disagreements. Further, culture brokering was a mediator of the impact of parent job social status on both child emotional distress and family disagreements. These results add to our understanding of the culture broker role and emphasize the utility of approaching research on it from an ecological perspective.
儿童文化中介是指移民儿童帮助他们的家庭适应新的文化和语言。本研究通过对来自前苏联的 328 个家庭的调查，构建了一个儿童文化中介角色模型，将其置于家庭和社区的经济和文化背景中。路径分析探讨了社区和家庭的经济和文化背景与儿童文化中介、儿童情绪困扰和家庭分歧之间的关系。所有的孩子都报告说他们为父母做了一些文化中介的事情。英语水平较低、从事低社会地位工作的父母，以及居住在有更多讲俄语家庭的地区，往往更经常地利用他们的孩子作为中介。此外，社区经济状况也通过父母工作的社会地位间接预测了中介行为。中介行为与儿童情绪困扰和家庭分歧有关。此外，文化中介是父母工作社会地位对儿童情绪困扰和家庭分歧影响的中介变量。这些结果增加了我们对文化中介角色的理解，并强调了从生态视角研究它的实用性。
