McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
University of California - Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2024 Mar;53(3):685-700. doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01902-7. Epub 2023 Nov 28.
Ethnic-racial pride (positive feelings about one's ethnic-racial group) is critical to healthy identity development across the lifespan. Research on ethnic-racial pride development among Latinx populations has focused exclusively on youth, without regard to pride development amongst parents and relations between pride within family units. Using multivariate Latent Growth Curve Modelling among 674 Mexican-origin youth and their parents (673 mothers; 437 fathers), the trajectory of youth's pride from 5 grade through emerging adulthood (14 years/12 waves of data) as well as relations with parental pride trajectories were examined. Respondents' pride generally decreased from waves 1 to 7 (~age 11-17 in youth) and increased after wave 7. Youth's and mothers' trajectories were unrelated, but complex associations emerged between youth's and fathers' trajectories. This study supports the dynamic nature of ethnic-racial pride across distinct life stages and underscores the complex interplay of youth and parental pride trajectories, emphasizing the pivotal role parents may play in co-shaping identity development alongside their children.
族群自豪感（对自己族群的积极感受）对整个生命周期健康的身份认同发展至关重要。关于拉丁裔族群族群自豪感发展的研究仅关注年轻人，而没有关注父母的自豪感发展以及家庭单位内自豪感之间的关系。本研究使用多元潜变量增长曲线模型，对 674 名墨西哥裔青年及其父母（673 名母亲；437 名父亲）进行了分析，考察了青年从五年级到成年早期（14 年/12 波数据）的自豪感轨迹以及与父母自豪感轨迹的关系。研究发现，受访者的自豪感通常从第 1 波到第 7 波（约在 11-17 岁的青少年时期）下降，然后在第 7 波之后增加。青年和母亲的轨迹没有关系，但青年和父亲的轨迹之间出现了复杂的关联。本研究支持了不同生命阶段族群自豪感的动态性质，并强调了青年和父母自豪感轨迹之间复杂的相互作用，强调了父母在与孩子共同塑造身份认同发展方面可能发挥的关键作用。
