Acculturation and delinquent behavior among Cuban American adolescents: Toward an empirical model

Vega, William A.; Gil, Andrés G.; Warheit, George J.; Zimmerman, Rick S.; Apospori, Eleni

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“…This divide exacerbates the intergenerational gap in acculturation (23,37,102). Potential effects of this intergenerational gap include a family role reversal (because children have better English language capacity and are often placed in positions of authority over parents in family business matters such as translating at the doctor, reading materials sent home from school, or business correspondence) and increasing disengagement and rigidity in parent-child relationships that previously had been flexible and cohesive (103,113).…”

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Elder

Ayala

Parra‐Medina³

et al. 2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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With reference to the Communication-Persuasion model, we describe various research issues and challenges when considering the health of Latinos, and implications for designing and evaluating health communication and behavior change efforts in this population. Latinos, collectively the nation's largest minority group, vary substantially in terms of socioeconomic and legal status, their country of origin and the extent of ongoing contact with that country, their region of residence within the United States, their generation status and levels of acculturation, and psychosocial factors. Health communication efforts with Latinos need to focus on family, cultural traditions, and collectivism while attending to acculturation, language, generation and national origin. The most extensive intervention topic in Latino health promotion has been the application of the lay health advisor model. This and other fundamental communication approaches, as well as audience and population characteristics, need to be considered within the context of dynamic and complex societal changes. PART I: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATESMany national health and social science studies, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and other surveys, treat Latinos 1 as though they were a homogenous group. However, as Modiano and colleagues (75) stated,The aggregation of culturally distinct subgroups, which have resided in the United States for different periods of time, into a more inclusive Latino category assumes that all persons of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican origin have similar needs and experience similar barriers in using health services.There is, however, no clear evidence for this assumption. On the contrary, there is evidence that each group has specific characteristics that make it different and independent from one another. . . . (p. 35) Clearly, extraordinary diversity exists among subgroups of Latinos. The immigration and acculturation experiences of Mexican or Central American-descended Americans, South Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans vary substantially from one another. The distinction among Latino subgroups can be traced back to highly varied experiences not only with respect to encounters with the dominant American culture but also extending back to Spanish colonization, which began to redefine the western hemisphere 500 years ago. Indigenous groups in the Caribbean Islands and coastal areas largely succumbed to Iberian diseases and aggression and were replaced by Europeans and African slaves. Although forced to adopt much of the culture and religion of the conquistadores, indigenous groups in central and highland areas of Mexico and further south survived 1 The field offers no consensus regarding the term to refer to persons of Latin American heritage who live in the United States. Both "Hispanic" and "Latino" are used extensively, although U.S. government documents, including the Census, use the term Hispanic. Given this mixed usage in the literature, we use the term Latino to indicate, where po...

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Section: The Audience: a Family Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Elder

Ayala

Parra‐Medina³

et al. 2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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“…Respondents were asked about trust, loyalty, pride, and general orientation toward family members. The scale has been used in many studies with various Latino subgroups (Gil & Vega, 1996;Vega et al, 1993). Higher scores represent greater levels of family pride.…”

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Social Relationships, Social Assimilation, and Substance Use Disorders among Adult Latinos in the U.S.

Canino¹,

Vega²,

Sribney³

et al. 2008

Journal of Drug Issues

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Based on social control perspectives and results from prior studies we test hypotheses about the extent to which characteristics of family and social networks are associated with substance use disorders (SUD), and whether these associations vary by sex. In this study SUD is alcohol or illicit drug abuse or dependence as defined by criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. With nationally representative data of adult Latinos from the National Latino and Asian American Survey (NLAAS), we found that respondents' language use with family, rather than language proficiency, appears to be a more efficient proxy for social assimilation to represent differential levels of risk of SUD. SUD was positively associated with problematic family relations for men but not women, and SUD was positively associated with more frequent interactions with friends for women but not men. The results suggest that the salient features of social assimilation associated with SUD include the context of language use and transformations in family and social network relationships that differ in important ways between Latino men and women.A substantial body of epidemiologic studies confirms a central conclusion about substanceuse patterns among Latinos in the U.S.: Latinos whose birthplace was outside the U.S. have lower rates of substance abuse and dependence than do Latinos born in the U.S. (Alegría, Canino, Stinson, & Grant., 2006;Amaro, Whitaker, Coffman, & Heeren, 1990;Boles, Casas, Furlong, Gonzalez, & Morrison, 1994;Burnam, Hough, Karno, Escobar, & Telles, 1987;Canino, Burnam, & Caetano, 1992;Grant et al., 2005;Ortega, Rosenheck, Alegría, & Desai, 2000;Turner & Gil, 2002;Vega, Alderete, Kolody, & Aguilar-Gaxiola, 1998a). Additional support for this conclusion comes from multiple international studies, including those conducted in Latin America, showing consistently lower national prevalence estimates for past Despite consistent differences in SUD between U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinos, reasons for the nativity effect are not well understood. One likely explanation is that those born abroad experience lower risk because socialization about alcohol and drug use within family and social networks is linked to strong social control against substance abuse, and immigrants carry these internalized controls with them into the U.S. Antonucci and Akiyama (1987) noted that immigrants rely on a "convoy" model to sustain cultural continuity, using families and extended social networks as agents to preserve prescribed and proscribed behaviors. Consequently, risk for SUD is heightened when there are disruptions in cultural continuity. A range of theories have been developed to explain culture change processes in general, relying on concepts of acculturation and assimilation (e.g., Alba & Nee, 2003;Berry, 1980;Gordon, 1964; Rumbaut, 1994; Vega, Gil, Wartheit, Zimmerman, & Apospori, 1993), which are challenging to operationalize.Critiques have been made regarding the exclusive reliance on accultu...

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“…These research efforts suggest that familial factors such as cohesion, attachment, and structure affect substance use behaviors of Latinos. Two of the first major studies to document the importance of familial factors on the substance use behaviors of Latinos were Vega et al (1993) and Brook et al (1992). Vega et al determined that familial protective factors significantly influenced delinquent and deviant behaviors in a cohort of young Cuban male adolescents.…”

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Influence of Mother–Daughter Attachment on Substance Use: A Longitudinal Study of a Latina Community-Based Sample

Rosa

Huang

Rojas

et al. 2015

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Advancing our initial, cross-sectional study, which showed that adult Latinas' mother-daughter attachment relates to their substance use, the current, longitudinal study tests whether mother and daughter attachment scores at baseline predict their substance use over time. Method: We analyzed data from a convenience sample of 133 Latina adult mothers (mean age = 52 years, SD = 10) and 133 Latina adult daughters (mean age = 27, SD = 9) at baseline and at 5-year and 6-year follow-ups after baseline (attrition rate = 16%). Multilevel longitudinal modeling was used to examine the effect of mother-daughter attachment at baseline on their substance use over time. Results: Each unit of increase in the attachment score at baseline is associated with a 0.28 drink decrease in monthly alcohol use (p < .05) and a lower likelihood of being a heavy alcohol or other drug user [exp(β) = 0.97, p < .01] compared with average attachment score at baseline (M = 91.52, SD = 18.00). Time and older age at baseline are associated with decreased substance use. Being born outside the United States is associated with decreased risk of heavy alcohol or other drug use. Being a mother is associated with increased substance use. Conclusions: The findings of this longitudinal study on adult Latinas indicate that mother-daughter attachment has long-lasting effects on substance use trajectories among adult Latinas. Future research should focus on (a) investigating social and cultural factors mediating this relationship and (b) greater substance use among Latina mothers compared with daughters. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 76, 307-316, 2015)

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Acculturation and delinquent behavior among Cuban American adolescents: Toward an empirical model

Cited by 163 publications

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Social Relationships, Social Assimilation, and Substance Use Disorders among Adult Latinos in the U.S.

Influence of Mother–Daughter Attachment on Substance Use: A Longitudinal Study of a Latina Community-Based Sample

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