Teenagers, Families, and Well-Being

青少年、家庭和福祉

• 批准号: 7691377
• 负责人: SU YEONG KIM
• 金额: $ 7.11万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-25 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7691377
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adolescence; Adolescent; American; Americas; Asia; Asians; Child; Chinese American; Chinese People; Contracts; Country; Data; Development; Developmental Process; Economics; Emotional; Ensure; Family; Fathers; Feeling; Future; Gender; Immigrant; Immigration; Incentives; Intervention; Investigation; Link; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mothers; Motivation; Native-Born; Nature; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Population; Preventive Intervention; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Sampling; Schools; Services; Social Environment; Social Welfare; Surveys; Techniques; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Translating; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; bean; cost; depressive symptoms; driving force; emotional adjustment; experience; interest; migration; programs; response; social; success; theories; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is in response to PA-06-180, NIH Small Research Grant Program (R03). The proposed study focuses on culturally-relevant developmental processes that are important for understanding the successful adjustment of children of immigrants in the United States. In immigrant families, Portes and Rumbaut (2001) identify generational dissonance as a family context that places children at increased risk for poor developmental outcomes. We currently know little about the mediating mechanisms that explain this relationship. Uncovering these mechanisms is important, as they may represent possible targets of intervention to increase the likelihood of successful adjustment among children of immigrants. The proposed study tests whether unsupportive parenting may operate as a mediator of the link between generational dissonance and child outcomes. The study further tests whether fathers' and mothers' parenting independently mediate the proposed relationship. It uses both cross-sectional and longitudinal self-reported survey data from mothers, fathers, and adolescents in Asian immigrant families, specifically Chinese Americans. In summary, there are three research aims. First, to test concurrent and longitudinal relations between generational dissonance and (a) unsupportive parenting, (b) adolescents' depressive symptoms, and (c) school performance. Second, to concurrently and longitudinally test whether unsupportive parenting mediates the relationship between parent-child acculturation discrepancy and adolescents' depressive symptoms and school performance. Third, we aim to test whether parent gender moderates the relationships tested in Aims 1 and 2. The proposed study is relevant to public health because it focuses on the developmental outcomes of children of immigrants, a growing and significant segment of America's children who will represent the future of U.S. workforce. It also focuses on the developmental period of early and middle adolescence, a susceptible period of transition when there are increases in socio-emotional problems that can compromise school performance. Finally, the study has the potential for identifying modifiable mediators that can be used to inform future preventive intervention work with children of immigrants.

描述（由申请人提供）：该建议是针对NIH小型研究赠款计划（R03）的PA-06-180。拟议的研究重点是与文化相关的发展过程，这些发展对于了解美国移民儿童的成功调整很重要。在移民家庭中，Portes and Rumbaut（2001）将世代上的不和谐确定为一种家庭环境，使儿童面临不良发育结果的风险。我们目前对解释这种关系的中介机制知之甚少。发现这些机制很重要，因为它们可能代表了干预的可能目标，以增加移民儿童成功调整的可能性。拟议的研究测试了不支持的育儿是否可以作为世代不和谐与儿童结局之间联系的中介。该研究进一步检验父亲和母亲的育儿是否独立调解了拟议的关系。它使用亚洲移民家庭（尤其是美国人）的母亲，父亲和青少年的横断面和纵向自我报告的调查数据。总而言之，有三个研究目标。首先，要测试世代不和谐和（a）无支持的育儿之间的并发和纵向关系，（b）青少年的抑郁症状以及（c）学校表现。其次，同时和纵向测试不支持的育儿是否介导了亲子的适应性差异与青少年的抑郁症状和学校表现之间的关系。第三，我们旨在测试父母是否在目标1和2中调节了所测试的关系。拟议的研究与公共卫生有关，因为它重点关注移民的儿童的发展成果，这是美国儿童不断增长且重要的一部分。美国劳动力的未来。它还着重于早期和青春期中期的发展时期，这是一个易感过渡时期，社会情感问题增加可能损害学校表现。最后，该研究有可能识别可修改的介体，这些调解人可用于为未来的预防性干预措施与移民的儿童提供信息。