The Role of Culture in Thriving and Risk Behavior in Hispanic Adolescents

文化在西班牙裔青少年的成长和风险行为中的作用

• 批准号: 8013904
• 负责人: SETH J. SCHWARTZ
• 金额: $ 73.06万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-15 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8013904
• 关键词: Acculturation; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Age; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American; Behavior; Behavioral; Caring; Development; Discrimination; Drug usage; Family; Goals; Happiness; Health; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Immigrant; Immigration; Intervention; Lead; Los Angeles; Measures; Mediating; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Parents; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Problem behavior; Process; Reporting; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk-Taking; Role; Schools; Services; Sex Behavior; Site; Social Identification; Specific qualifier value; Sum; Testing; Time; United States; high school; indexing; prevent; theories; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Theory has posited that discrepancies in acculturation between Hispanic adolescents and their parents are associated with conduct problems, drug/alcohol use, and sexual risk taking. These discrepancies may also be associated with compromised levels of positive development. These effects are assumed to occur via poor family functioning. However, empirical tests of the differential acculturation hypothesis have yielded inconsistent results. The proposed study will use a multidimensional model of acculturation - including behaviors, values, and identifications - and will use state-of-the-art latent variable methods to examine parent-adolescent discrepancies in acculturation and their effects on behavioral outcomes through family functioning. 300 Hispanic adolescents and their primary parents will be randomly selected from six public high schools in Miami and from six public high schools in Los Angeles. Adolescents and parents will be assessed twice per year between 9th and 12th grade. Parents and adolescents will complete measures of Hispanic and American cultural behaviors, values, and identifications; family functioning; and adolescent behavior. Adolescents will report on their drug use, sexual behavior, and indices of thriving (prosocial behavior, school grades, and positive attitudes and traits). The results will inform theory regarding the extent to which discrepancies in acculturation lead to compromised family functioning in Hispanic families, and the extent to which these problems in family functioning are associated with conduct problems, drug/alcohol use, sexual risk taking, and impaired thriving. The results will also be important regarding the need to incorporate cultural concerns into efforts to prevent problems and to promote positive development in Hispanic adolescents and families. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed study will examine the ways in which recent-immigrant Hispanic families acculturate to the United States. Specifically, we will examine how the development of cultural differences between Hispanic immigrant parents and adolescents are associated with behavior problems, drug and alcohol use, and sexual risk taking - and with lowered levels of positive development (grades, positive behavior, caring, et cetera) - through family problems. Provided that our hypotheses are supported, this will suggest that family strengthening interventions may be important for Hispanic immigrant families - a sizeable and rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population.

描述（由申请人提供）：理论认为，西班牙裔青少年及其父母之间的适应性差异与行为问题，毒品/酒精使用和性风险服用有关。这些差异也可能与受损的积极发展水平有关。假定这些效果是通过家庭功能不良而发生的。然而，差异文化假设的经验检验产生了不一致的结果。拟议的研究将使用多维的适应模型 - 包括行为，价值和身份认同 - 并将使用最先进的潜在变量方法来检查适应性的父母 - 青年群体差异及其通过家庭功能对行为结果的影响。 300名西班牙裔青少年及其主要父母将被随机从迈阿密的六所公立高中和洛杉矶的六所公立高中选中。青少年和父母将在9年级和12年级之间进行两次评估。父母和青少年将完成西班牙裔和美国文化行为，价值观和认同的措施；家庭功能；和青少年行为。青少年将报告其毒品使用，性行为以及繁荣的指标（亲社会行为，学校成绩以及积极的态度和特征）。结果将为理论提供有关适应性差异的程度的理论，导致西班牙裔家庭的家庭职能受损，以及这些家庭功能中的这些问题与行为问题，毒品/酒精使用，性风险服用和繁荣的程度有关。结果对于将文化关注纳入预防问题并促进西班牙裔青少年和家庭积极发展的努力的需求也将很重要。公共卫生相关性：拟议的研究将研究最近移民的西班牙裔家庭培养到美国的方式。具体而言，我们将研究西班牙裔移民父母和青少年之间文化差异的发展与行为问题，毒品和饮酒以及性风险的相关性以及积极发展的水平降低（成绩，积极行为，关怀等， ） - 通过家庭问题。只要我们的假设得到了支持，这将表明，加强家庭干预措施对西班牙裔移民家庭可能很重要 - 西班牙裔移民家庭是美国人口中大量且快速增长的。