TY - JOUR
T1 - Familism Values, Family Assistance, and Prosocial Behaviors Among U.S. Latinx Adolescents
AU - Zhao, Chang
AU - White, Rebecca M.B.
AU - Roche, Kathleen M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: William T. Grant Foundation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and grant number is R01 HD090232 and T. Denny Sanford School’s Latino Resilience Enterprise Summer Fellowship program.
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PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Among U.S. Mexican adolescents living in established immigrant communities, high familism values are positively associated with compliant, emotional, and dire prosocial behaviors via sociocognitive and cultural psychological mechanisms. Less is known about the behavioral mechanisms that may explain these associations, or about prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latinxs residing in emerging immigrant destinations. We examined the cross-sectional, intervening variable associations among familism values, family assistance behaviors, and culturally salient prosocial behaviors among 547 U.S. Latinx adolescents residing in an emerging immigrant destination (M age = 12.8 years; 55.4% girls). Familism values and family assistance behaviors promoted emotional and dire prosocial behaviors for boys and girls, and promoted compliant prosocial behaviors for boys only. Familism also had direct associations with all three prosocial behaviors for boys and girls. Family assistance behaviors may be a mechanism via which adolescents develop compliant, emotional, and dire prosocial behaviors.
AB - Among U.S. Mexican adolescents living in established immigrant communities, high familism values are positively associated with compliant, emotional, and dire prosocial behaviors via sociocognitive and cultural psychological mechanisms. Less is known about the behavioral mechanisms that may explain these associations, or about prosocial behaviors among U.S. Latinxs residing in emerging immigrant destinations. We examined the cross-sectional, intervening variable associations among familism values, family assistance behaviors, and culturally salient prosocial behaviors among 547 U.S. Latinx adolescents residing in an emerging immigrant destination (M age = 12.8 years; 55.4% girls). Familism values and family assistance behaviors promoted emotional and dire prosocial behaviors for boys and girls, and promoted compliant prosocial behaviors for boys only. Familism also had direct associations with all three prosocial behaviors for boys and girls. Family assistance behaviors may be a mechanism via which adolescents develop compliant, emotional, and dire prosocial behaviors.
KW - U.S. Latinx adolescents
KW - familism values
KW - family assistance behaviors
KW - prosocial behaviors
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U2 - 10.1177/02724316221078831
DO - 10.1177/02724316221078831
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126028890
SN - 0272-4316
VL - 42
SP - 914
EP - 936
JO - Journal of Early Adolescence
JF - Journal of Early Adolescence
IS - 7
ER -