Wang Yijie, Benner Aprile D
Fordham University, New York, NY, USA.
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2016 Mar;45(3):594-611. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0426-1. Epub 2016 Jan 25.
Racial/ethnic minority youth live at the intersection of diverse cultures, yet little is known about cultural socialization outside families or how cultural socialization in multiple settings conjointly influences adolescent well-being. In a sample of 236 8th graders (51 % female; 89 % Latinos, 11 % African Americans), we examined adolescents' perceptions of family and peer cultural socialization toward the heritage culture and the mainstream American culture. A variable-centered approach demonstrated that the socioemotional and academic benefits of family cultural socialization were most evident when peer cultural socialization was congruently high. Although family and peer cultural contexts are often assumed to be drastically different, we identified similar proportions of adolescents experiencing congruently high, congruently low, and incongruent cultural socialization from families and peers using a person-centered approach. Although the incongruent group received relatively high levels of cultural socialization in one setting, their well-being was similar to the congruently low group. The findings highlight the importance of considering cultural socialization across multiple developmental settings in understanding racial/ethnic minority youth's well-being.
少数族裔青年生活在多元文化的交汇处，但对于家庭之外的文化社会化情况，或者多种环境中的文化社会化如何共同影响青少年的幸福感，我们却知之甚少。在一个由236名八年级学生组成的样本中（51%为女生；89%为拉丁裔，11%为非裔美国人），我们考察了青少年对家庭和同伴在传承文化和美国主流文化方面的文化社会化的认知。一种以变量为中心的方法表明，当同伴文化社会化程度同样较高时，家庭文化社会化在社会情感和学业方面的益处最为明显。尽管人们通常认为家庭和同伴的文化环境截然不同，但我们采用以个体为中心的方法发现，经历来自家庭和同伴的文化社会化程度同样高、同样低以及不一致的青少年比例相近。尽管不一致组在一种环境中接受了相对较高水平的文化社会化，但其幸福感与同样低的组相似。这些发现凸显了在理解少数族裔青年的幸福感时，考虑多种发展环境中的文化社会化的重要性。
