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Ferguson, Gail M.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Pottinger, Audrey M. – Child Development, 2012
A bidimensional acculturation framework cannot account for multiple destination cultures within contemporary settlement societies. A "tridimensional model" is proposed and tested among Jamaican adolescent-mother dyads in the United States compared to Jamaican Islander, European American, African American, and other Black and non-Black U.S.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Acculturation, Immigrants, Adolescents
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Vaquera, Elizabeth; Kao, Grace – Child Development, 2012
This study explores the educational achievement of immigrant youth in Spain employing data from 3 waves of the Longitudinal Study of Families and Childhood (Panel de Families i Infancia), a representative sample of children in Catalonia first interviewed at ages 13-16 in 2006 (N = 2,710). Results suggest consistent disadvantage in achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Outcomes of Education, Immigrants
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Cote, Linda R. Y. – Child Development, 2004
Japanese and South American immigrant mothers' parenting cognitions (attributions and self-perceptions) were compared with mothers from their country of origin (Japan and Argentina, respectively) and European American mothers in the United States. Participants were 231 mothers of 20-month-old children. Generally, South American immigrant mothers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Child Rearing, Immigrants