Citation

Cobb CL, Martínez CRJ. Fam. Process 2021; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/famp.12726

PMID

34617286

Abstract

According to ecodevelopmental and social learning models, Latino immigrant parents experience considerable stress associated with the immigration process, and such immigration-related stress is theorized to influence behavioral outcomes among their youth. Using a three-year longitudinal design among 217 Latino immigrant families in western Oregon, we assessed whether parents' (94% mothers, M(age)  = 36.2 years) experience of immigration-related stress influenced the trajectory of their adolescents' (43% female, M(age) = 13.4 years) externalizing behaviors. Controlling for covariates (gender, acculturation, age at migration, and gender), results showed that youth exhibited a normative downward trajectory for externalizing behaviors, and parents' experience of immigration stress significantly and negatively predicted this trajectory.

FINDINGS suggest that parents' experience of immigration stress may disrupt a normative trajectory of declining externalizing behaviors among Latino immigrant adolescents.

Language: en

Keywords

conductas de exteriorización de los adolescentes; emerging context; estrés de los inmigrantes; estrés de los padres; externalizing behaviors; familias latinas; immigration stress; Latino families; 拉丁裔家庭; 父母压力; 移民压力; 青少年外化行为