ERIC Number: EJ1241877
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0272-4316
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Stress of Language Brokering and Mexican American Adolescents' Adjustment: The Role of Cumulative Risk
Shen, Yishan; Seo, Eunjin; Walt, Dorothy Clare; Kim, Su Yeong
Journal of Early Adolescence, v40 n3 p400-425 Mar 2020
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.
Descriptors: 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
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Texas
Grant or Contract Numbers: 5R03HD06004502; 2P2CHD04284916