Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences, Kent State University.
Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Sciences, Florida State University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Jul;30(3):425-433. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000581. Epub 2023 Mar 9.
The present study examined the association between acculturative stress and rule-breaking behaviors, with depressive symptoms as the mediator, and emotion regulation and parental behavioral involvement (i.e., time spent in shared activities between parents and adolescents) as the moderators among Latinx adolescents in rural areas.
Using a sample of Latinx adolescents ( = 193; = 15.90; 54.4% female) recruited from rural areas, a moderated mediation model was tested.
Findings showed that the mediational pathways connecting acculturative stress, depressive symptoms, and rule-breaking behaviors were moderated by emotion regulation and parental behavioral involvement. Specifically, higher levels of acculturative stress were associated with higher levels of rule-breaking behaviors through elevated depressive symptoms only among adolescents who reported low levels of both emotion regulation and parental behavioral involvement.
These findings underscore the importance of considering multiple contextual factors in understanding the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors among Latinx adolescents in rural areas. The findings suggest intervention programs may target parental behavioral involvement and emotion regulation to help adolescents cope with acculturative stress and perhaps other minority stressors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究考察了文化适应压力与违规行为之间的关系，其中抑郁症状为中介，情绪调节和父母行为参与（即父母和青少年之间共同活动的时间）为调节因素，对象为农村地区的拉丁裔青少年。
本研究使用了来自农村地区的拉丁裔青少年样本（n=193；M=15.90；54.4%女性），检验了一个中介调节模型。
研究结果表明，文化适应压力、抑郁症状和违规行为之间的中介途径受到情绪调节和父母行为参与的调节。具体来说，在情绪调节和父母行为参与都较低的青少年中，较高的文化适应压力与较高的违规行为有关，这是通过较高的抑郁症状来实现的。
这些发现强调了在理解农村地区拉丁裔青少年内化和外化行为的发展时，考虑多种背景因素的重要性。研究结果表明，干预计划可能以父母行为参与和情绪调节为目标，以帮助青少年应对文化适应压力，也许还有其他少数族裔压力源。
