Abstract:Child socialization and development are, in part, products of adapting cultural systems. These systems evolve from the combined influence of collective history and current environmental affordances. They permeate family systems, shaping child development via numerous mechanisms, including structures and roles; values, beliefs, and goals; and parenting-to name a few. Recent growth in the study of child development among racial, ethnic, and cultural minority groups, which has been supported by important cultural… Show more
“…Finally, neighborhood effects research may benefit from incorporating the fourth major guideline, namely, examining the interplay of biology (Causadias, 2013). Consistent with broad notions about the benefits of socially organized, consonant, and supportive environments for development (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006), alongside models that recognize how adapting cultural systems of socialization work to promote development vis-à-vis opportunities and constraints encoun-tered by bounded groups and communities (White, Nair, et al, 2018), we found substantial evidence that predominantly Latino neighborhoods help to structure Mexican-ori-gin adolescents' community participation and engagement in ways that promote adaptive and mitigate maladaptive functioning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dire (helping in emergencies), emotional (helping in emotionally evocative situations), and compliant (helping when asked) prosocial behaviors are especially promoted within Mexican-origin families and communities, particularly those with stronger heritage orientations (Calderón-Tena, Knight, Carlo, Mahrer, & Davis, 2016). Viewed within recent conceptual and theoretical advances (White, Nair, et al, 2018), such findings suggest that systems of socialization within Mexican-origin communities may be especially likely to support the development of these particular types of prosocial behaviors. Thus, though work on neighborhood structural characteristics and prosocial behaviors is limited, especially in the United States, we expected that neighborhood Latino concentration would be associated with higher dire, emotional, and compliant prosocial behaviors.…”
Ethnic–racial and socioeconomic residential segregation are endemic in the United States, representing societal-level sociocultural processes that likely shape development. Considered alongside communities’ abilities to respond to external forces, like stratification, in ways that promote youth adaptive functioning and mitigate maladaptive functioning, it is likely that residence in segregated neighborhoods during adolescence has both costs and benefits. We examined the influences that early adolescents’ neighborhood structural characteristics, including Latino concentration and concentrated poverty, had on a range of developmentally salient downstream outcomes (i.e., internalizing, externalizing, prosocial behaviors, and ethnic–racial identity resolution) via implications for intermediate aspects of adolescents’ community participation and engagement (i.e., ethnic–racial identity exploration, ethnic–racial discrimination from peers, and school attachment). These mediational mechanisms were tested prospectively across three waves (Mage w1-w3 = 12.79, 15.83, 17.37 years, respectively) in a sample of 733 Mexican-origin adolescents (48.8% female). We found higher neighborhood Latino concentration during early adolescence predicted greater school attachment and ethnic–racial identity exploration and lower discrimination from peers in middle adolescence. These benefits, in turn, were associated with lower externalizing and internalizing and higher ethnic–racial identity resolution and prosocial behaviors in late adolescence. Findings are discussed relative to major guidelines for integrating culture into development and psychopathology.
“…Finally, neighborhood effects research may benefit from incorporating the fourth major guideline, namely, examining the interplay of biology (Causadias, 2013). Consistent with broad notions about the benefits of socially organized, consonant, and supportive environments for development (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006), alongside models that recognize how adapting cultural systems of socialization work to promote development vis-à-vis opportunities and constraints encoun-tered by bounded groups and communities (White, Nair, et al, 2018), we found substantial evidence that predominantly Latino neighborhoods help to structure Mexican-ori-gin adolescents' community participation and engagement in ways that promote adaptive and mitigate maladaptive functioning.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dire (helping in emergencies), emotional (helping in emotionally evocative situations), and compliant (helping when asked) prosocial behaviors are especially promoted within Mexican-origin families and communities, particularly those with stronger heritage orientations (Calderón-Tena, Knight, Carlo, Mahrer, & Davis, 2016). Viewed within recent conceptual and theoretical advances (White, Nair, et al, 2018), such findings suggest that systems of socialization within Mexican-origin communities may be especially likely to support the development of these particular types of prosocial behaviors. Thus, though work on neighborhood structural characteristics and prosocial behaviors is limited, especially in the United States, we expected that neighborhood Latino concentration would be associated with higher dire, emotional, and compliant prosocial behaviors.…”
Ethnic–racial and socioeconomic residential segregation are endemic in the United States, representing societal-level sociocultural processes that likely shape development. Considered alongside communities’ abilities to respond to external forces, like stratification, in ways that promote youth adaptive functioning and mitigate maladaptive functioning, it is likely that residence in segregated neighborhoods during adolescence has both costs and benefits. We examined the influences that early adolescents’ neighborhood structural characteristics, including Latino concentration and concentrated poverty, had on a range of developmentally salient downstream outcomes (i.e., internalizing, externalizing, prosocial behaviors, and ethnic–racial identity resolution) via implications for intermediate aspects of adolescents’ community participation and engagement (i.e., ethnic–racial identity exploration, ethnic–racial discrimination from peers, and school attachment). These mediational mechanisms were tested prospectively across three waves (Mage w1-w3 = 12.79, 15.83, 17.37 years, respectively) in a sample of 733 Mexican-origin adolescents (48.8% female). We found higher neighborhood Latino concentration during early adolescence predicted greater school attachment and ethnic–racial identity exploration and lower discrimination from peers in middle adolescence. These benefits, in turn, were associated with lower externalizing and internalizing and higher ethnic–racial identity resolution and prosocial behaviors in late adolescence. Findings are discussed relative to major guidelines for integrating culture into development and psychopathology.
“…The adaptive culture is the result of both culture of origin influences and contextual circumstances and demands; the adaptive culture also has implications for family life, including family interaction patterns, support systems, and routines, and for youth development and adjustment (García Coll et al, 1996). White et al (2018) expanded on the concept of adaptive culture by introducing the notion of "adapting cultural systems" (p. 3) to reflect the idea that cultural systems are transactional and they evolve via continuous interactions between culture of origin influences (i.e., defined by a group's history and cultural traditions, beliefs, and practices) and current contextual circumstances. White et al (2018) proposes that adapting cultural systems are not universally advantageous to youth, but instead may lead to benefits, costs, or both depending on a complex set of factors, such as the particular developmental outcome or competency under consideration, family structures and roles, individual characteristics, contextual demands, and developmental timing.…”
Section: Familism Values Family Relationship Dynamics and Adolescenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…White et al (2018) expanded on the concept of adaptive culture by introducing the notion of "adapting cultural systems" (p. 3) to reflect the idea that cultural systems are transactional and they evolve via continuous interactions between culture of origin influences (i.e., defined by a group's history and cultural traditions, beliefs, and practices) and current contextual circumstances. White et al (2018) proposes that adapting cultural systems are not universally advantageous to youth, but instead may lead to benefits, costs, or both depending on a complex set of factors, such as the particular developmental outcome or competency under consideration, family structures and roles, individual characteristics, contextual demands, and developmental timing. Applied to the current study, adolescents' familism values were conceptualized as one important feature of their larger adapting cultural systems that were mutually informed by adolescents' culture of origin and their current circumstances.…”
Section: Familism Values Family Relationship Dynamics and Adolescenmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Yet, we know little about the progression of familism values within this context or about how intraindividual change in familism values are associated with other adaptive or maladaptive processes that may have cascading implications for adolescents and their young children's long-term adjustment. The second and third goals of this study address these associations and are theoretically situated within the integrative model for minority children's development (García Coll et al, 1996) and White, Nair, and Bradley's (2018) elaboration of the adaptive culture framework (White, Nair, & Bradley, 2018). Adolescents’ familism values are part of their adaptive culture, specifically “a social system defined by sets of goals, values, and attitudes that differ from the dominant culture” (García Coll et al, 1996, p. 1896).…”
Section: Familism Values Family Relationship Dynamics and Adolescenmentioning
Familism values are conceptualized as a key source of resilience for Latino adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment. The current study addressed the developmental progression and correlates of familism within the context of the transition to adolescent motherhood. Participants were 191 Mexican-origin pregnant adolescents (15 to 18 years of age at first pregnancy; Mage = 16.76 years; SD = 0.98) who were having their first child. Adolescents completed interviews during their third trimester of pregnancy and annually for 5 years after (Waves 1 through 6). We examined changes in familism values across the transition to adolescent motherhood and the moderating role of age at pregnancy. Moderation analyses revealed differences in familism trajectories for younger versus older adolescents. We also examined whether familism values were related to family relationship dynamics (i.e., adolescents’ relationships with their own mother figures) and adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment, respectively, using multilevel models to test both between-person and within-person associations. Adolescents’ stronger familism values were related to adolescent–mother figure warmth and conflict, coparenting communication, and three dimensions of social support from mother figures, but no associations emerged for coparental conflict, adolescents’ depressive symptoms, or self-esteem. Discussion addresses these findings in the context of culturally grounded models of ethnic–racial minority youth development and psychopathology.
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