Bilingualism and Resilience in Latino Youth

拉丁裔青年的双语能力和适应能力

• 批准号: 9093231
• 负责人: Erin M. Rodriguez
• 金额: $ 7.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9093231
• 关键词: 13 year old; Accounting; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Affect; Age; Age of Onset; Attention; Child; Communities; Coping Skills; Development; Developmental Process; Due Process; Early Intervention; Early identification; Effectiveness; Equilibrium; Family; Goals; Health; Indigenous; Knowledge; Language; Language Development; Latino; Lead; Life; Link; Maintenance; Measures; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Neurocognitive; Outcome; Outpatients; Parents; Pathway interactions; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Population Programs; Poverty; Prevention; Prevention approach; Prevention strategy; Preventive Intervention; Process; Psychosocial Factor; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Risk; Sampling; Schools; Site; Stress; Suicide attempt; Teenagers; Testing; Underserved Population; Vocabulary; Youth; bilingualism; coping; critical period; depressive symptoms; disparity reduction; early adolescence; executive function; experience; high risk; improved; low socioeconomic status; prevent; programs; prospective; public health relevance; resilience; skills; suicidal; suicidal behavior; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Latino adolescents have among the highest rates of functionally impairing depressive symptoms, including the highest rates of suicidal behavior. A significant and growing percentage of Latino youth live in poverty, which further increases their risk for depressive symptoms. Although coping skills programs have proven beneficial for preventing or reducing risk for depressive symptoms, low-socioeconomic status (low-SES) Latino youth have among the lowest rates of utilization of conventional mental health services, greatly limiting the effectiveness of these coping programs for this population. Thus, these youth could benefit from alternative approaches to prevention and intervention. A key first step in improving prevention efforts involves the identification of indigenous, accessible, and culturally acceptable processes that support coping and reduce risk for depressive symptoms. Bilingual language development is one such factor that is highly prevalent, but occurs at varying levels of exposure, usage, and proficiency, in low-SES Latino youth. Bilingualism supports the development of executive function (EF), and higher EF has been linked to more adaptive coping and lower levels of depressive symptoms. However, no research has examined associations between bilingualism and depressive symptoms in Latino youth. Therefore, the purpose of the current R03 is to examine the link between degree of bilingualism and the development of depressive symptoms, as well as the potential mediators (EF and coping) of this link, in a sample of low-SES Latino adolescents. We will assess degree of bilingualism, EF, coping and depressive symptoms at baseline and 12 months later in 80 bilingual Latino youth ages 10-13 years old. We focus on this age range because levels of depressive symptoms spike by middle adolescence, making early adolescence a crucial period for prevention and early intervention. Assessments will include youth and parent reports of all variables as well as testing of youth language proficiency and EF. The Specific Aims of the proposed project are to 1) determine the prospective association between degree of bilingualism and development of depressive symptoms over one year in low-SES Latino youth, and 2) assess executive function and coping as potential mediators of the association between bilingualism and development of depressive symptoms over one year. The successful completion of this project will lead to a multi-wave, multi-site R01 proposal to identify pathways from bilingual language development to mental health outcomes in a diverse population of youth. The long-term goal of this line of research is to reduce disparities in depressive symptoms and their health consequences affecting low-SES Latino adolescents and similar high-risk, underserved youth populations.

描述（由申请人提供）：拉丁裔青少年在功能上损害抑郁症状的率最高，包括自杀行为的最高率。贫困中，大量且增长的拉丁裔青年生活在贫困中，这进一步增加了抑郁症状的风险。尽管应付技能计划已被证明有益于预防或减少抑郁症状的风险，但低社会经济地位（低调）拉丁裔青年在使用常规心理健康服务的利用率最低，极大地限制了这些应对计划对该人群的有效性。因此，这些年轻人可以从预防和干预的替代方法中受益。改善预防努力的关键第一步是识别支持应对并减少抑郁症状风险的土著，可访问和文化上可接受的过程。双语语言发展是高度普遍的这样一个因素，但在低调的拉丁裔青年中发生在不同水平的接触，用法和熟练程度上。双语主义支持执行功能（EF）的发展，较高的EF与更适应性的应对和抑郁症状的较低水平有关。但是，尚无研究研究拉丁裔青年双语和抑郁症状之间的关联。因此，当前R03的目的是检查双语程度与抑郁症状的发展以及该链接的潜在介体（EF和应对）的联系，以及低SES拉丁裔青少年的样本。我们将在基线时评估双语，EF，应对和抑郁症状的程度，以及12个月后的80名双语拉丁裔青年10-13岁。我们重点关注这个年龄范围，因为青春期中期的抑郁症状水平飙升，这使得青春期早期是预防和早期干预的关键时期。评估将包括所有变量的青年和父母报告，以及对青年语言水平和EF的测试。拟议项目的具体目的是1）确定双语程度与低SES拉丁裔青年一年来抑郁症状的发展之间的前瞻性关联，以及2）评估行政功能和应对作为双语主义与抑郁症状发展之间的潜在调解人。该项目的成功完成将导致多波，多站点的R01提案，以识别从双语语言发展到多样化青年人群的心理健康成果的途径。这一研究的长期目标是减少抑郁症状的差异及其影响低SES拉丁裔青少年和类似高风险，服务不足的青年人口的健康后果。