Top

Gepubliceerd in:

01-09-2018 | Empirical Research

Burdened or Efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American Language Brokers, Predictors, and Long-Term Outcomes

Auteurs: Yishan Shen, Su Yeong Kim, Aprile D. Benner

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 1/2019

Abstract

Despite growing research on youth language brokering in immigrant families, evidence regarding its developmental outcomes remains mixed. This study took a person-centered approach, exploring subgroups of language brokers and identifying predictors and long-term outcomes of the subgroup membership. Participants were Chinese American adolescents (N = 350 at Time 1; M_age = 17.04; SD = 0.72; 59% female) followed over two waves spaced four years apart (longitudinal N = 291). Two distinct subgroups of adolescent language brokers were identified using latent profile analyses on language brokering feelings: efficacious and burdened brokers. Adolescents proficient in both English and Chinese were more likely to be efficacious brokers. Furthermore, burdened brokers reported higher parent–child alienation, and in turn, more depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood, compared to efficacious brokers and non-language-brokers. The current findings inform future interventions that burdened language brokers may be most at risk and that improving parent–child relationships may be one way to promote the well-being of young brokers.

vorige artikel Parent-Child Conflict during Elementary School as a Longitudinal Predictor of Sense of Purpose in Emerging Adulthood

volgende artikel Sandra Grady: Improvised Adolescence: Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015, 174pp, ISBN 978-0-299-30324-2

Achenbach, T. M. (2001). Manual for the youth self-report and 2001 profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont.

Anguiano, R. M. (2018). Language brokering among Latino immigrant families: moderating variables and youth outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 222–242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0744-y.CrossRefPubMed

Armsden, G. C., & Greenberg, M. T. (1987). The inventory of parent and peer attachment: individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 16, 427–454. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02202939.CrossRef

Buriel, R., Love, J. A., & De Ment, T. L. (2006). The relation of language brokering to depression and parent-child bonding among latino adolescents. In M. H. B. L. R. Cote (Ed.), Acculturation and parent-child relationships: measurement and development (pp. 249–270). Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Buriel, R., Perez, W., DeMent, T. L., Chavez, D. V., & Moran, V. R. (1998). The relationship of language brokering to academic performance, biculturalism, and self-efficacy among Latino adolescents. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 20, 283–297. https://doi.org/10.1177/07399863980203001.CrossRef

Chao, R. K. (2006). The prevalence and consequences of adolescents’ language brokering for their immigrant parents. In M. H. Bornstein & L. R. Cote (Eds.), Acculturation and parent–child relationships: measurement and development (pp. 271–296). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dorner, L. M., Orellana, M. F., & Jiménez, R. (2008). “It’s one of those things that you do to help the family”: Language brokering and the development of immigrant adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 23, 515–543. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558408317563.CrossRef

Dorner, L. M., Orellana, M. F., & Li-Grining, C. P. (2007). ‘I helped my mom,’ and it helped me: translating the skills of language brokers into improved standardized test scores. American Journal of Education, 113, 451–478. https://doi.org/10.1086/512740.CrossRef

Enders, C. K. (2001). The performance of the full information maximum likelihood estimator in multiple regression models with missing data. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 61, 713–740. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164401615001.CrossRef

Garcia Coll, C., Lamberty, G., Jenkins, R., McAdoo, H. P., Crnic, K., Wasik, B. H., & Garcia, H. V. (1996). An integrative model for the study of developmental competencies in minority children. Child Development, 67, 1891–1914. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131600.CrossRefPubMed

Guan, S.-S. A., & Shen, J. (2015). Language brokering and parental praise and criticism among young adults from immigrant families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24, 1334–1342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-014-9940-5.CrossRef

Hosmer, D. W., & Lemeshow, S. (2000). Introduction to the logistic regression model applied logistic regression. 2nd edn. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc pp 1–30.CrossRef

Jones, C. J., Trickett, E. J., & Birman, D. (2012). Determinants and consequences of child culture brokering in families from the former Soviet Union. American Journal of Community Psychology, 50, 182–196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-012-9488-8.CrossRefPubMed

Kam, J. A. (2011). The effects of language brokering frequency and feelings on Mexican-heritage youth’s mental health and risky behaviors. Journal of Communication, 61, 455–475. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01552.x.CrossRef

Kam, J.A., & Lazarevic, V. (2014a). Communicating for one’s family: an interdisciplinary review of language and cultural brokering in immigrant families. In E.L. Cohen (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 38 (pp. 3-38): New York: Routledge.

Kam, J. A., & Lazarevic, V. (2014b). The stressful (and not so stressful) nature of language brokering: Identifying when brokering functions as a cultural stressor for Latino immigrant children in early adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 1994–2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-013-0061-z.CrossRefPubMed

Kim, S. Y., Hou, Y., Shen, Y., & Zhang, M. (2017). Longitudinal measurement equivalence of subjective language brokering experiences scale in Mexican American adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 23, 230–243. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000117.CrossRefPubMed

Kim, S. Y., Wang, Y., Weaver, S. R., Shen, Y., Wu-Seibold, N., & Liu, C. H. (2014). Measurement equivalence of the language-brokering scale for Chinese American adolescents and their parents. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 180–192. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036030.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Le, T. N., & Stockdale, G. D. (2005). Individualism, collectivism, and delinquency in Asian American adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 681–691. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp3404_10.CrossRefPubMed

Lee, R. M., Choe, J., Kim, G., & Ngo, V. (2000). Construction of the Asian American family conflicts scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 47, 211–222. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0167.47.2.211.CrossRef

Martinez, Jr., C. R., McClure, H. H., & Eddy, J. M. (2009). Language brokering contexts and behavioral and emotional adjustment among Latino parents and adolescents. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 29, 71–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431608324477.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (1998–2015). Mplus user’s guide. 7.3 edn. Los Angeles, CA: Muthén & Muthén.

Radloff, L. S. (1977). The CES-D scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 385–401. https://doi.org/10.1177/014662167700100306.CrossRef

Rainey, V. R., Flores, V., Morrison, R. G., David, E., & Silton, R. L. (2014). Mental health risk factors associated with childhood language brokering. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 35, 463–478. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2013.870180.CrossRef

Roche, K. M., Lambert, S. F., Ghazarian, S. R., & Little, T. D. (2015). Adolescent language brokering in diverse contexts: Associations with parenting and parent–youth relationships in a new immigrant destination area. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44, 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0154-3.CrossRefPubMed

Ryan, C. (2013). Language use in the United States: 2011 American community survey reports. https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf.

Ryder, A. G., Alden, L. E., & Paulhus, D. L. (2000). Is acculturation unidimensional or bidimensional? A head-to-head comparison in the prediction of personality, self-identity, and adjustment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 49–65. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.79.1.49.CrossRefPubMed

Schofield, T. J., Conger, R. D., Martin, M. J., Stockdale, G. D., Conger, K. J., & Widaman, K. F. (2009). Reciprocity in parenting of adolescents within the context of marital negativity. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1708–1722. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016353.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Shen, Y., Kim, S. Y., Wang, Y., & Chao, R. K. (2014). Language brokering and adjustment among Chinese and Korean American adolescents: a moderated mediation model of perceived maternal sacrifice, respect for the mother, and mother–child open communication. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 5, 86–95. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035203.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2003). Language brokering as a stressor for immigrant children and their families. In M. Coleman & L. Ganong (Eds.), Points and counterpoints: controversial relationship and family issues in the 21st century: An anthology (pp. 157–159). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury.

Vaid, J., López, B. G., & Martínez, F. E. (2015). Linking the figurative to the creative: Bilinguals’ comprehension of metaphors, jokes, and remote associates. In R. R. Heredia, A. B. Cieślicka, R. R. Heredia & A. B. Cieślicka (Eds.), Bilingual figurative language processing (pp. 53–86). New York, NY, US: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef

Villanueva, C. M., & Buriel, R. (2010). Speaking on behalf of others: a qualitative study of the perceptions and feelings of adolescent latina language brokers.Journal of Social Issues, 66, 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2009.01640.x.CrossRef

Weaver, S. R., & Kim, S. Y. (2008). A person-centered approach to studying the linkages among parent-child differences in cultural orientation, supportive parenting, and adolescent depressive symptoms in Chinese American families. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 36–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-007-9221-3.CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Weisskirch, R. S. (2007). Feelings about language brokering and family relations among Mexican American early adolescents. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 27, 545–561. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431607302935.CrossRef

Weisskirch, R. S. (2013). Family relationships, self-esteem, and self-efficacy among language brokering Mexican American emerging adults. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 22, 1147–1155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-012-9678-x.CrossRef

Weisskirch, R. S., & Alva, S. A. (2002). Language brokering and the acculturation of Latino children. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 24, 369–378. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986302024003007.CrossRef

Wu, N. H., & Kim, S. Y. (2009). Chinese American adolescents’ perceptions of the language brokering experience as a sense of burden and sense of efficacy. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 38, 703–718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-008-9379-3.CrossRefPubMed

Titel: Burdened or Efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American Language Brokers, Predictors, and Long-Term Outcomes
Auteurs: Yishan Shen
Su Yeong Kim
Aprile D. Benner
Publicatiedatum: 01-09-2018
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0916-4

Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Deel dit onderdeel of sectie (kopieer de link)

Abstract

Log in om toegang te krijgen

Andere artikelen Uitgave 1/2019

Early Life Socioeconomic Disparities in Children’s Sleep: The Mediating Role of the Current Home Environment

Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) and Deviant Peer Affiliation: A Gene–Environment Interaction in Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Cultural Stress, Emotional well-being, and Health Risk Behaviors among Recent Immigrant Latinx families: The Moderating Role of Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics

Young Adult Unemployment and Later Depression and Anxiety: Does Childhood Neighborhood Matter?

Developmental Change in Adolescent Delinquency: Modeling Time-Varying Effects of a Preventative Intervention and GABRA2 Halpotype Linked to Alcohol Use

Janina Scarlet: Therapy Quest: An Interactive Journey Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy