Stress of Language Brokering and Mexican American Adolescents' Adjustment: The Role of Cumulative Risk

Autor/inn/en	Shen, Yishan; Seo, Eunjin; Walt, Dorothy Clare; Kim, Su Yeong
Titel	Stress of Language Brokering and Mexican American Adolescents' Adjustment: The Role of Cumulative Risk
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 40 (2020) 3, S.400-425 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Shen, Yishan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431619847526
Schlagwörter	Stress Variables; Mexican Americans; Early Adolescents; Low Income Groups; Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; Delinquency; At Risk Persons; Social Adjustment; Limited English Speaking; Parent Child Relationship; Translation; Family Environment; Gender Differences; Middle School Students; Immigrants; Well Being; Adolescent Development; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanoamerikaner; Angst; Kriminalität; Risikogruppe; Soziale Anpassung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familienmilieu; Geschlechterkonflikt; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden
Abstract	This study focused on early adolescents' stress of language brokering and examined the moderating role of family cumulative risk in the relation of language brokering to adjustment problems. Data came from self-reports of 604 low-income Mexican American adolescent language brokers (54% female; X[bar] [subscript age]= 12.4; SD = 0.97; 75% born in the United States) and their parents (99% foreign-born) in central Texas. Path analyses revealed that brokering stress, but not frequency, was positively associated with adolescents' adjustment problems, including depressive symptoms, anxiety, and delinquency. We also found that the relation between stress of brokering for mothers and adolescents' depressive symptoms was stronger among families with a high cumulative risk. Further, with a high cumulative risk, adolescents exhibited delinquent behaviors regardless of the levels of stress from translating for fathers. Current findings underscore the importance of examining family contexts in assessing the consequences of language brokering for Mexican American early adolescents' well-being. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01