Developmental Trajectories of Acculturation: Links With Family Functioning and Mental Health in Recent-Immigrant Hispanic Adolescents Article

Schwartz, SJ, Unger, JB, Zamboanga, BL et al. (2015). Developmental Trajectories of Acculturation: Links With Family Functioning and Mental Health in Recent-Immigrant Hispanic Adolescents . CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 86(3), 726-748. 10.1111/cdev.12341

cited authors

  • Schwartz, SJ; Unger, JB; Zamboanga, BL; Córdova, D; Mason, CA; Huang, S; Baezconde-Garbanati, L; Lorenzo-Blanco, EI; Des Rosiers, SE; Soto, DW; Villamar, JA; Pattarroyo, M; Lizzi, KM; Szapocznik, J

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abstract

  • The present study was designed to examine acculturative changes, and their effects on mental health and family functioning, in recent-immigrant Hispanic adolescents. A sample of 302 Hispanic adolescents was assessed five times over a 21/2-year period. Participants completed measures of Hispanic and U.S. practices, collectivist and individualist values, and ethnic and U.S. identity at each time point. Baseline and Time 5 levels of mental health and family functioning were also assessed. Latent class growth analyses produced two-class solutions for practices, values, and identifications. Adolescents who increased over time in practices and values reported the most adaptive mental health and family functioning. Adolescents who did not change in any acculturation domain reported the least favorable mental health and family functioning.

publication date

  • May 1, 2015

published in

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start page

  • 726

end page

  • 748

volume

  • 86

issue

  • 3