TY - JOUR
T1 - Reexamining the Acculturation Gap
T2 - The Relationship Between the Bidimensional Parent-Adolescent Gap and Risky Behavior Among Mexican-Heritage Adolescents
AU - Marsiglia, Flavio
AU - Kiehne, Elizabeth
AU - Ayers, Stephanie L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIH/NIMHD), Award P20 MD002316 (F. Marsiglia, P.I.).
Funding Information:
methodological, statistical, and project implementation of community-based prevention intervention research funded by the National Institutes of Health. She has an interdisciplinary background in medical sociology, prevention science, and substance use.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Elevated rates of risky behavior among Latino youth have been linked to features of acculturation such as discrepant rates of acculturation between parents and adolescents. This study examined how parent-adolescent mainstream and Mexican cultural gaps are differentially related to adolescent risky behavior through family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental involvement among Mexican immigrant families. Contrary to the acculturation gap–distress hypothesis, family conflict did not mediate the relationship between acculturation gaps and adolescent risky behavior. Whereas the mainstream cultural gap was associated with less risky adolescent behavior through increased parental monitoring and involvement, the opposite relationship emerged for the Mexican cultural gap. Findings are discussed in relation to the acculturation gap–distress model and the broader parent-child relationship context. Findings illuminate the practical, theoretical, and empirical importance of recognizing Mexican-heritage youth as embedded within an influential family milieu situated in a culturally plural context.
AB - Elevated rates of risky behavior among Latino youth have been linked to features of acculturation such as discrepant rates of acculturation between parents and adolescents. This study examined how parent-adolescent mainstream and Mexican cultural gaps are differentially related to adolescent risky behavior through family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental involvement among Mexican immigrant families. Contrary to the acculturation gap–distress hypothesis, family conflict did not mediate the relationship between acculturation gaps and adolescent risky behavior. Whereas the mainstream cultural gap was associated with less risky adolescent behavior through increased parental monitoring and involvement, the opposite relationship emerged for the Mexican cultural gap. Findings are discussed in relation to the acculturation gap–distress model and the broader parent-child relationship context. Findings illuminate the practical, theoretical, and empirical importance of recognizing Mexican-heritage youth as embedded within an influential family milieu situated in a culturally plural context.
KW - Hispanic/Latino/Latina
KW - acculturation
KW - deviance/delinquency/truancy
KW - family relations/processes
KW - immigration (generational issues)
KW - parenting processes/practices
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U2 - 10.1177/0272431616678991
DO - 10.1177/0272431616678991
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045429109
SN - 0272-4316
VL - 38
SP - 581
EP - 605
JO - Journal of Early Adolescence
JF - Journal of Early Adolescence
IS - 5
ER -