Department of Psychology.
School of Education.
Dev Psychol. 2020 Aug;56(8):1475-1483. doi: 10.1037/dev0000791.
Familism values promote the positive adaptation of Latinx youth, but few studies have examined potential indirect effects associated with these positive effects. In emerging immigrant communities, where fewer resources are available to youth and families to maintain cultural values and ties, familism may be especially important. In this study of 175 primarily second-generation Latinx youth in such a community, we tested whether familism values were indirectly associated with adolescent outcomes through positive parent-child relationships, private racial/ethnic regard, meaning in life, and support seeking coping. Familism values were associated with greater academic motivation. Additionally, there were significant indirect effects in terms of positive parent-child relationships explaining the links between familism and fewer parent-reported externalizing symptoms, and for meaning in life explaining the links between familism and fewer depressive symptoms and greater academic motivation. Familism was also associated with greater support seeking coping, but this was associated with greater depressive symptoms. Our study suggests that in an emerging immigrant community familism values are primarily associated with positive adaptation through distinct mechanisms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
家庭主义价值观促进拉丁裔青年的积极适应，但很少有研究探讨与这些积极影响相关的潜在间接影响。在新兴的移民社区，青年和家庭维持文化价值观和联系的资源较少，家庭主义可能尤为重要。在这项对该社区 175 名主要为二代拉丁裔青年的研究中，我们检验了家庭主义价值观是否通过积极的亲子关系、私人的种族/民族尊重、生活意义和寻求支持的应对方式与青少年的结果间接相关。家庭主义价值观与更高的学业动机有关。此外，亲子关系的积极程度解释了家庭主义与较少的父母报告的外化症状之间的联系，而生活意义解释了家庭主义与较少的抑郁症状和更高的学业动机之间的联系。家庭主义也与更多的寻求支持的应对方式有关，但这与更多的抑郁症状有关。我们的研究表明，在一个新兴的移民社区中，家庭主义价值观主要通过不同的机制与积极适应相关。
