TY - JOUR
T1 - The effects of parental acculturation and parenting practices on the substance use of mexican-heritage adolescents from Southwestern Mexican Neighborhoods
AU - Marsiglia, Flavio
AU - Nagoshi, Julie L.
AU - Parsai, Monica
AU - Castro, Felipe
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (P20MD002316-07; PI: Flavio F. Marsiglia), funding the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center. This study was also funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (F31 DA005629; PI: Julie Nagoshi). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views the NIMHD, NIDA, or the NIH.
PY - 2014/7/1
Y1 - 2014/7/1
N2 - A sample of 189 Mexican-heritage seventh grade adolescents reported their substance use, while one of the child's parents reported parent's acculturation and communication, involvement, and positive parenting with his or her child. Higher levels of parental acculturation predicted greater marijuana use, whereas parent communication predicted lower cigarette and marijuana use among girls. A significant parent acculturation by parent communication interaction for cigarette use was due to parent communication being highly negatively associated with marijuana use for high acculturated parents, with attenuated effects for low acculturated parents. A significant child gender by parent acculturation by parent positive parenting interaction was found. For girls, positive parenting had a stronger association with lower cigarette use for high acculturated parents. For boys, positive parenting had a stronger association with reduced cigarette use for low acculturated parents. Discussion focuses on how acculturation and gender impact family processes among Mexican-heritage adolescents.
AB - A sample of 189 Mexican-heritage seventh grade adolescents reported their substance use, while one of the child's parents reported parent's acculturation and communication, involvement, and positive parenting with his or her child. Higher levels of parental acculturation predicted greater marijuana use, whereas parent communication predicted lower cigarette and marijuana use among girls. A significant parent acculturation by parent communication interaction for cigarette use was due to parent communication being highly negatively associated with marijuana use for high acculturated parents, with attenuated effects for low acculturated parents. A significant child gender by parent acculturation by parent positive parenting interaction was found. For girls, positive parenting had a stronger association with lower cigarette use for high acculturated parents. For boys, positive parenting had a stronger association with reduced cigarette use for low acculturated parents. Discussion focuses on how acculturation and gender impact family processes among Mexican-heritage adolescents.
KW - Mexican American adolescents
KW - acculturation
KW - parenting
KW - substance use
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U2 - 10.1080/15332640.2014.905215
DO - 10.1080/15332640.2014.905215
M3 - Article
C2 - 25176121
AN - SCOPUS:84906890301
SN - 1533-2640
VL - 13
SP - 288
EP - 311
JO - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
JF - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
IS - 3
ER -