Acculturative Orientations Among Hispanic/Latinx Caregivers in the ABCD Study: Associations With Caregiver and Youth Mental Health and Youth Brain Function

Dyadic bicultural competence: A new way of conceptualizing patterns of cultural competence in close relationships

“…Third, as Berry's marginalization subtype has received mixed empirical support, it is not represented in this model, which may exclude those individuals who do identify with that category. There is evidence that some individuals identify very little with either heritage or dominant cultures (Meca et al, 2023) or who identify with a culture or subculture other than heritage or dominant cultures (Del Pilar & Udasco, 2004). Thus, it is possible that Berry's marginalized subgroup is small but extant.…”

Conceptual Clarity and Methodological Rigor in the Examination of Culture Within Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

“…This commentary reflects on the novel and exciting study in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science by Meca et al. ( 9 ) by discussing the strengths and criticisms of the conceptual underpinnings and methodological approaches used in their study. The study used data from 1057 Latinx caregivers in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study to examine whether parent cultural identity profiles might be associated with parent and child mental health and children’s neural signatures using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging.…”

“…Future research in this area can use Meca et al. ’s ( 9 ) work as a positive example of the importance of making a rational and defensible argument about how and why culture and acculturation would be expected to influence neural activation and connectivity.…”