Culture, Family Process, and Developmental Outcomes in Asian American Youth

亚裔美国青年的文化、家庭过程和发展成果

• 批准号: 9049520
• 负责人: YOONSUN CHOI
• 金额: $ 63.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9049520
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Acculturation; Adolescence; Adopted; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American; Asian Americans; Asians; Assertiveness; Authoritarianism; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Biological Preservation; Child; Child Development; Child Rearing; Chinese People; Complex; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Depression and Suicide; Development; Education; Empirical Research; Environment; Ethnic group; Face; Family; Family Process; Fathers; Filipino American; Gender; Goals; Growth; Health; Illinois; Immigrant; Income; Indigenous; Investigation; Knowledge; Korean American; Label; Longitudinal Surveys; Mainstreaming; Measures; Mediation; Mental Health; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Mothers; Not Hispanic or Latino; Occupational; Outcome; Paint; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Pattern; Performance; Population; Poverty; Process; Psyche structure; Public Health; Race; Reporting; Research; Role; Socioeconomic Status; Stereotyping; Subgroup; Training; United States; Violence; Woman; Youth; aged; behavioral outcome; boys; emerging adulthood; girls; health disparity; high school; improved; neglect; prevent; psychologic; racial and ethnic; suicide rate; theories; trait; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Counter to the "model minority" stereotype, Asian American (AA) youth show a uniquely mixed pattern of behaviors. They report better academic performance, fewer externalizing problems (e.g., substance use, violence), but more internalizing problems (e.g., depression, suicide) than youth of other racial-ethnic groups. During emerging adulthood, the positive outcomes in AA youth do not seem to hold up, and poor mental health is exacerbated. In fact, the suicide rate among young AA women is alarming, posing a serious public concern. In addition, AA youth subgroups dramatically differ in youth outcomes: some subgroups fare well while others struggle. However, our current knowledge is seriously limited in understanding how parenting and parent-child relations help or hinder youth development among AA youth. The existing family-process model, which is derived mainly from Western conceptualization, does not seem to be adequate to predict health and behavioral outcomes in AA youth. For example, the associations between parenting and youth behaviors among AA youth do not often show a conventional pattern but in fact reveal a paradoxical pattern. Cultures vary in parenting beliefs and behaviors and how they establish parent-child relations. In addition, like all other minority youth, AA youth face acculturation, having to negotiate between parental and mainstream cultures. However, culturally unique aspects of family process and the issue of acculturation are often neglected in the existing parenting research. This study responds to the urgent need for reliable longitudinal data of AA youth, the fastest growing but one of the most understudied and misunderstood populations in the United States. This proposed study aims to formulate a culturally adequate family-process model that incorporates acculturation in family process to accurately explain the complex outcome patterns of AA youth. The study will collect annual longitudinal survey data from Filipino American and Korean American families in the state of Illinois (N=1,960; 350 youth, 350 mothers, and 280 fathers from 350 families with n=980 per group) with the following specific aims: (1) to examine the concurrent and longitudinal associations of family process (parental beliefs, parental behaviors, and parent-child relations) with academic achievement, externalizing problems, and internalizing problems among AA youth, (2) to delineate developmental trajectories and their determinants in family process for the three outcome domains during adolescence and through the transition to young adulthood among AA youth, and (3) to investigate the influences of acculturation on the ways family process is connected to youth outcomes and developmental trajectories among AA youth. The results of this study will guide AA parents to preserve the aspects of their parenting that produce and maintain positive youth behaviors but to modify their parenting or adopt new strategies to prevent serious internalizing problems or worsening of those problems. The results also can guide parents of other race/ethnic groups to adopt AA parenting methods to help maximize their child's potential growth without increasing mental-health problems.

描述（由申请人提供）：与“模型少数派”刻板印象相反，亚裔美国人（AA）青年表现出一种独特的混合行为模式。他们报告的学业表现更好，外部化问题（例如，使用物质，暴力）比其他种族族裔群体的年轻人更为内在的问题（例如抑郁症，自杀）。在成年期间，AA青年的积极成果似乎并没有结束，精神健康差会加剧。实际上，年轻的AA妇女的自杀率令人震惊，引起了严重的公众关注。此外，AA青年子群体在青年成果方面有很大差异：有些亚组的表现很好，而另一些亚组挣扎。但是，我们目前的知识严重局限于了解育儿和亲子关系如何帮助或阻碍AA青年的青年发展。现有的家庭过程模型主要源于西方概念化，似乎不足以预测AA青年的健康和行为结果。例如，AA青年之间的育儿与青年行为之间的关联并不经常显示出传统的模式，但实际上揭示了一种自相矛盾的模式。文化在育儿信念和行为以及它们如何建立亲子关系方面有所不同。此外，与所有其他少数族裔青年一样，AA青年面临适应性，必须在父母和主流文化之间进行谈判。但是，在现有的育儿研究中经常忽略家庭过程的文化独特方面和文化化问题。这项研究迫切需要对AA青年的可靠纵向数据的迫切需求，AA青年是增长最快，但是美国最受过度和误解的人群之一。这项拟议的研究旨在制定一种具有文化上适当的家庭过程模型，该模型将适应性纳入家庭过程中，以准确解释AA青年的复杂结果模式。 The study will collect annual longitudinal survey data from Filipino American and Korean American families in the state of Illinois (N=1,960; 350 youth, 350 mothers, and 280 fathers from 350 families with n=980 per group) with the following specific aims: (1) to examine the concurrent and longitudinal associations of family process (parental beliefs, parental behaviors, and parent-child relations) with academic achievement, （2）在青春期以及通过AA青年中的过渡到年轻人的成年期间的家庭过程中，将问题和内部化问题的外在化和内在化问题，（2）在家庭过程中描述了发展轨迹及其决定因素，以及（3）调查生涯对家庭过程与青少年的影响的影响与年轻人的影响与年轻人之间的影响。这项研究的结果将指导AA父母保留其育儿的各个方面，这些方面产生和维持积极的青年行为，但要修改其育儿或采取新策略来防止严重内部化的问题或恶化这些问题。结果还可以指导其他种族/族裔的父母采用AA育儿方法，以帮助最大程度地提高孩子的潜在成长而不会增加心理健康问题。