Mother-Child Adjustment in Arab Immigrants and Refugees

阿拉伯移民和难民的母子调整

• 批准号: 7157002
• 负责人: Thomas Norbert Templin
• 金额: $ 45.81万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7157002
• 关键词: Adolescence; Adolescent; Affect; Arabs; Child; Child Rearing; Classification; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Development; Early Intervention; Emotional; Environmental Risk Factor; Equation; Extended Family; Family; Gender Role; HIV Seropositivity; Health Services Research; Husband; Immigrant; Immigration; Individual; Intervention; Life; Life Stress; Longitudinal Studies; Minority; Modeling; Mother-Child Relations; Mothers; Muslim population group; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting behavior; Pathway interactions; Peer Pressure; Performance; Population; Prevention; Problem behavior; Psychosocial Stress; Refugees; Relative (related person); Risk; Schools; Score; Self Concept; Services; Social support; Staging; Stress; Stress and Coping; Testing; Time; Vulnerable Populations; Woman; Work; Youth; coping; maternal stress; peer; programs; psychosocial; stressor

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescence is a difficult developmental transition for foreign-born mothers and their children. The typical identity issues and peer pressure associated with this developmental transition for adolescents of foreign parentage are complicated by living in two cultures with conflicting norms and values. Yet, little is known about their adjustment. Even less is known about the parenting of foreign-born mothers or the effects of their stress on parenting during adolescence. These issues are even greater for Arab Muslim immigrants because their culture is markedly different from dominant US values. This longitudinal study of Arab Muslim immigrant and refugee mothers and their children will investigate stress, coping, social support, and parent-child relationship from the dual perspective of mothers and youth. The pathways in a causal model of how maternal, family, and child variables affect child psychosocial adjustment will be examined during transition into early and late adolescence. Study aims are to: 1) determine the baseline relationships in a causal model of maternal and child stress, coping, and social support; socio-demographic risk; maternal adjustment; parent-child relationships; and child psychosocial adjustment for pre- and early adolescent Arab youth, and 2) determine the stability of the pathways of the above variables for explaining the adjustment of Arab youth, 18 and 36 months later during transitions into early and late adolescence. Data about maternal, family, and child variables will be collected from 608 mother-child dyads at baseline when the child is a pre- or early adolescent and at 18 and 36 months later to capture transition into later stages of adolescence. Structural equation modeling will be used to develop a model of the baseline relationships among the latent variables and examine the model's ability to predict adjustment outcomes at 18 and 36 months. Model stability will be evaluated by assessing systematic change in the latent variables over time, determining the reliability of the change, and obtaining empirical Bayes (EB) estimates of individual true score change. A change score model, incorporating EB estimates, will determine how changes in the latent variables are related to the 18- and 36-month child adjustment outcomes. Information from the proposed study is needed to develop service delivery programs for this vulnerable population of women and children, particularly to determine the relative value of interventions focused on inter/intrapersonal dynamics versus contextual/environmental features.

描述（由申请人提供）：对于外国出生的母亲及其孩子来说，青春期是一个艰难的发展过渡期。对于外籍青少年来说，与这种发展转变相关的典型身份问题和同伴压力因生活在两种规范和价值观相互冲突的文化中而变得复杂。然而，人们对他们的调整知之甚少。人们对外国出生母亲的养育方式或她们的压力对青春期养育子女的影响知之甚少。对于阿拉伯穆斯林移民来说，这些问题更为严重，因为他们的文化与美国的主流价值观明显不同。这项针对阿拉伯穆斯林移民和难民母亲及其子女的纵向研究将从母亲和青少年的双重视角探讨压力、应对、社会支持和亲子关系。将在青春期早期和晚期的过渡期间检查母亲、家庭和儿童变量如何影响儿童心理社会调整的因果模型中的路径。研究目的是：1）确定母婴压力、应对和社会支持因果模型中的基线关系；社会人口风险；产妇调整；亲子关系； 2) 确定上述变量路径的稳定性，以解释 18 个月和 36 个月后阿拉伯青年在向青春期早期和晚期过渡期间的调整。有关母亲、家庭和儿童变量的数据将从 608 个母子二人组中收集，基线时儿童处于青春期前或青春期早期，以及 18 个月和 36 个月后，以捕捉青春期后期的过渡情况。结构方程模型将用于开发潜在变量之间的基线关系模型，并检查该模型预测 18 个月和 36 个月调整结果的能力。将通过评估潜在变量随时间的系统变化、确定变化的可靠性以及获得个体真实分数变化的经验贝叶斯 (EB) 估计来评估模型稳定性。包含 EB 估计的变化评分模型将确定潜在变量的变化如何与 18 个月和 36 个月的儿童调整结果相关。需要拟议研究的信息来为妇女和儿童这一弱势群体制定服务提供计划，特别是确定侧重于人际/内部动态与背景/环境特征的干预措施的相对价值。