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Pong, Suet-ling; Landale, Nancy S. – Child Development, 2012
Using data from the New Immigrant Survey, a study based on a nationally representative sample of legal immigrants, the present study extends prior research on the academic outcomes of immigrants' children by examining the roles of pre- and postmigration parental characteristics and the home environment. An analysis of 2,147 children aged 6-2 shows…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Parent Role, Family Environment
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Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Umana-Taylor, Adriana J.; McHale, Susan M.; Wheeler, Lorey A.; Perez-Brena, Norma J. – Child Development, 2012
Drawing from developmental and cultural adaptation perspectives and using a longitudinal design, this study examined: (a) mean-level changes in Mexican-origin adolescents' cultural orientations and adjustment from early to late adolescence and (b) bidirectional associations between cultural orientations and adjustment using a cross-lag panel…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Acculturation
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Jung, Sunyoung; Fuller, Bruce; Galindo, Claudia – Child Development, 2012
Poverty-related developmental-risk theories dominate accounts of uneven levels of household functioning and effects on children. But immigrant parents may sustain norms and practices--stemming from heritage culture, selective migration, and social support--that buffer economic exigencies. "Comparable" levels of social-emotional functioning in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Migration