Socioenvironmental Risk and Adjustment in Latino Youth: The Mediating Effects of Family Processes and Social Competence

Autor/inn/en	Prelow, Hazel M.; Loukas, Alexandra; Jordan-Green, Lisa
Titel	Socioenvironmental Risk and Adjustment in Latino Youth: The Mediating Effects of Family Processes and Social Competence
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36 (2007) 4, S.465-476 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-006-9106-x
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Competence; Acculturation; Parent Child Relationship; Socioeconomic Status; At Risk Persons; Adjustment (to Environment); Family Influence; Interpersonal Relationship; Early Adolescents; Hispanic Americans; Urban Areas; Environmental Influences; Mothers; Stress Variables; Child Rearing; Parent Influence; Neighborhoods; Economically Disadvantaged; Income; Psychological Patterns; Adolescent Development; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonale Kompetenz; Akkulturation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Risikogruppe; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Urban area; Stadtregion; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Einkommen; Korrelation
Abstract	The direct and mediated effects of socioenvironmental risk on internalizing and externalizing problems among Latino youth aged 10-14 were examined using prospective analyses. Participants in this study were 464 Latino mother and child dyads surveyed as part of the "Welfare, Children & Families: A Three City Study." It was hypothesized that socioenvironmental risk (i.e., maternal psychological distress, maternal parenting stress, neighborhood disadvantage, and perceived financial strain) would influence later adolescent adjustment by interrupting important family processes and interfering with opportunities for adolescents to develop appropriate social competence. Using path analyses, the mediational model was compared across high and low acculturation groups. With two exceptions, the models for the high and low acculturation groups were equivalent. Results supported a mediated effect between early socioenvironmental risk and later adjustment problems for the low acculturation group through family routines and adolescent social competence. Among families high in acculturation, socioenvironmental risk effects were partially mediated through family routines and adolescent social competence. Finally, a path from gender to maternal monitoring was present in the low acculturation group model but not the high acculturation group model. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10