College of Integrative Sciences and Arts.
School of Social and Family Dynamics.
J Fam Psychol. 2022 Jun;36(4):523-533. doi: 10.1037/fam0000959. Epub 2022 Jan 31.
Our goal was to test a prospective indirect effects model to examine whether maternal and youth exposures to discrimination were linked to adolescent adjustment (i.e., grade point average [GPA], internalizing symptoms and externalizing symptoms) via maternal warmth and family anti-immigrant behavior modifications and whether youth anti-immigrant worries qualified these relations. Prior research has demonstrated that individual exposures to ethnic-racial discrimination are associated with poor adjustment among Latinx adolescents. Less research has evaluated the impact of discrimination from a family lens or focused on identifying the mechanism via which discrimination impacts adolescent adjustment. Data from a school-based sample of 547 Latinx adolescents (55% female; 88.1% U.S. born) across 2 years were used. Study hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) in Mplus. Whereas adolescents' discrimination exposures were associated with poorer adjustment via disruptions to maternal warmth, mothers' discrimination exposures were associated with lowered adolescent internalizing symptoms via family anti-immigrant behavior modifications. Further, prospective negative relations between warmth and internalizing and GPA were attenuated in the context of adolescents' greater anti-immigrant worries. By exploring discrimination in the family context and examining mechanisms via which discrimination impacts adolescent adjustment, the study offers a more comprehensive picture of the pernicious toll discrimination can have on the family lives of Latinx youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
我们的目标是测试一个前瞻性的间接效应模型，以检验母亲和青少年是否经历过歧视与青少年的适应情况（即平均绩点[GPA]、内化症状和外化症状）有关，其途径是母亲的温暖和家庭对反移民行为的改变，以及青少年对反移民的担忧是否会影响这些关系。先前的研究表明，个体经历种族歧视与拉丁裔青少年的不良适应有关。较少的研究从家庭角度评估歧视的影响，或侧重于确定歧视影响青少年适应的机制。这项研究使用了两年间来自基于学校的 547 名拉丁裔青少年（55%为女性；88.1%为美国出生）的数据。研究假设使用 Mplus 中的结构方程建模（SEM）进行检验。虽然青少年的歧视经历与母亲温暖程度的下降有关，与适应不良有关，但母亲的歧视经历与家庭反移民行为的改变与青少年的内化症状减少有关。此外，在青少年对反移民的担忧增加的情况下，温暖与内化和 GPA 之间的前瞻性负相关关系减弱了。通过探索家庭环境中的歧视，并研究歧视影响青少年适应的机制，本研究更全面地描述了歧视对拉丁裔青年家庭生活可能产生的严重影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
