School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University.
Dev Psychol. 2021 May;57(5):783-795. doi: 10.1037/dev0001170.
Neighborhood social processes may have important implications for parenting processes and ethnic-racial identity (ERI) processes and content in adolescence. Past research suggests that adolescents whose parents engaged in more cultural socialization, an important aspect of parental racial socialization, had higher levels of ERI processes and content. Parenting, however, is also situated within neighborhood contexts and can be influenced by resources available in neighborhoods. For example, having neighbors who share mutual values, trust one another, and appreciate/celebrate one's heritage culture may be a resource that promotes parents' efforts to engage in cultural socialization. We prospectively examined (from x¯age = 10.9-15.8 years) a model in which U.S. Mexican parents' perceptions of neighborhood social and cultural cohesion supported parents' engagement in higher levels of cultural socialization and in turn promoted adolescents' ethnic-racial identity processes and content. We tested a longitudinal mediation model with a sample of 749 U.S. Mexican adolescents (30% Mexico born; 48.9% female) and their parents. Mother-adolescent models suggest mothers' perception of neighborhood social and cultural cohesion in late childhood promoted middle adolescents' ERI affirmation via intermediate increases in maternal cultural socialization. Similar patterns were observed for ERI resolution, but only for adolescents whose mothers were born in the United States. We did not find evidence for mediation in the father-adolescent models. Findings are discussed in the context of the promoting nature of socially and culturally supportive neighborhood environments for U.S. Mexican families and adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
邻里社会进程可能对父母教养过程和青少年时期的种族认同(ERI)过程和内容产生重要影响。过去的研究表明,父母进行更多文化社会化(父母种族社会化的一个重要方面)的青少年,其 ERI 过程和内容水平更高。然而,育儿也处于邻里环境中,并可能受到邻里环境中可用资源的影响。例如,拥有相互分享共同价值观、相互信任和欣赏/庆祝自己传统文化的邻居,可能是促进父母参与文化社会化的资源。我们前瞻性地考察了一个模型,即美国墨西哥裔父母对邻里社会和文化凝聚力的看法支持父母进行更高水平的文化社会化,进而促进青少年的种族认同过程和内容。我们使用 749 名美国墨西哥裔青少年(30%出生于墨西哥;48.9%为女性)及其父母的样本测试了一个纵向中介模型。母亲-青少年模型表明,母亲在幼儿期对邻里社会和文化凝聚力的看法促进了青少年中期的 ERI 肯定,这是通过中间增加母亲的文化社会化来实现的。对于 ERI 解决,也观察到了类似的模式,但仅适用于母亲出生于美国的青少年。我们在父亲-青少年模型中没有发现中介的证据。研究结果在社会和文化支持的邻里环境对美籍墨西哥家庭和青少年具有促进作用的背景下进行了讨论。(PsycInfo 数据库记录(c)2021 APA,保留所有权利)。