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Abstract
Elevated rates of risky behavior among Latino youth have been linked to features of acculturation such as discrepant rates of acculturation between parents and adolescents. This study examined how parent-adolescent mainstream and Mexican cultural gaps are differentially related to adolescent risky behavior through family conflict, parental monitoring, and parental involvement among Mexican immigrant families. Contrary to the acculturation gap–distress hypothesis, family conflict did not mediate the relationship between acculturation gaps and adolescent risky behavior. Whereas the mainstream cultural gap was associated with less risky adolescent behavior through increased parental monitoring and involvement, the opposite relationship emerged for the Mexican cultural gap. Findings are discussed in relation to the acculturation gap–distress model and the broader parent-child relationship context. Findings illuminate the practical, theoretical, and empirical importance of recognizing Mexican-heritage youth as embedded within an influential family milieu situated in a culturally plural context.
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Author Biographies
Flavio F. Marsiglia is the center director and principal investigator for the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC) and the Center for International Translational Intervention Research (CITIR), as well as a reagents professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the development and deployment of culturally grounded and community-based health promotion prevention interventions in Latino-dominant community, school, and health care settings.
Elizabeth Kiehne is a doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University and a graduate research associate at SIRC and CITIR. Her research involves the ways in which sociopolitical contexts affect Latino immigrants in the United States, particularly for those with precarious legal statuses. As part of the sociopolitical climate, she studies native-immigrant intergroup relations.
Stephanie L. Ayers is the associate director of research for SIRC where she oversees the methodological, statistical, and project implementation of community-based prevention intervention research funded by the National Institutes of Health. She has an interdisciplinary background in medical sociology, prevention science, and substance use.
