Abstract
The present study examines whether easy talking with parents would buffer the association between bullying victimization and declining academic performance among a nationally representative sample of foreign-born and U.S.-born adolescents. The study was drawn from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children 2009-2010 cohort study in the United States. Analyses include descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and moderated regression analysis for each group (i.e., foreign-born and U.S.-born). Results indicate a significant relationship between bullying victimization and declining academic performance for foreign-born and U.S.-born adolescents. Findings also suggest that easy talking with parents moderated the association between bullying victimization and declining academic performance but for foreign-born adolescents only. The study highlights the importance of family and parental communication to ensure immigrant adolescents’ health, well-being, and academic progress. Practice and policy implications and future research directions are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1453-1468 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Applied Research in Quality of Life |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2023 |
Keywords
- Academics
- Adolescence
- Bullying
- Immigrant
- Nativity
- Parents
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Life-span and Life-course Studies