Three Basic Themes in Mexican and Puerto Rican Family Values

Fernández-Marina, Ramón; Maldonado-Sierra, E. D.; Trent, Richard D.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1958.9919280

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“…The Affiliative Obedience versus Active Self-Affirmation measure (Diaz-Guerrero 1994) is a subscale that is drawn from a socio-cultural premises inventory originally evaluated with youth in Mexico and Puerto Rico (Fernandez-Marina et al 1958). Each of the 17 items, including "All adults should be respected" and "A person must always obey his/her parents" was rated from strongly agree (0) to strongly disagree (4).…”

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Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth

Stein

Polo

2013

J Child Fam Stud

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Abstract:Cultural value gaps between Mexican American parents and their children are hypothesized to place youth at risk for poor mental health outcomes. While most studies examine these gaps on broad measures of acculturation, the present study examined value gaps in affiliative obedience, a cultural value that has at its core the belief that respect and deference must be shown to parents and adults. The present study hypothesized that adolescents would exhibit greater depressive symptoms when youth demonstrated lower levels of affiliative obedience than their mothers. Moreover, we examined whether gender, nativity status, and age predicted cultural value gaps and moderated the relationship between gaps and depressive symptoms. These questions were evaluated in a school-based sample of 159 Mexican American families whose children were either US born (n = 82) or foreign-born (n = 77). Twenty-five percent of the sample demonstrated a cultural value gap where youth endorsed lower levels of affiliative obedience than their parents, and this group reported the greatest depressive symptoms. Age moderated this relationship, and the greatest association between cultural value gaps and depression was found among the older group of early adolescents.

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Section: Youth and Parent Affiliative Obediencementioning

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Parent–Child Cultural Value Gaps and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican American Youth

Stein

Polo

2013

J Child Fam Stud

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“…Active SelfAffirmation scale is an 18-item self-report scale that measures the endorsement of values such as respect and deference towards adults, and particularly towards parents. The scale was drawn from a larger inventory of cultural values thought to be characteristic of the normative socialization of Latino youth and was originally validated with Mexican and Puerto Rican youth (Fernandez-Marina, Maldonado-Sierra, & Trent, 1958). A total of 18 items, such as "A person must always respect his or her parents," were rated by youth using a five-point Likert scale from Strongly Disagree (0) to Strongly Agree (4).…”

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Family orientation, language, and anxiety among low-income Latino youth

Martínez

Polo

Carter

2012

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…The adaptation process used in lengthening and restandardizing Diaz Guerrero's questionnaire has been previously described in detail by these writers (ref. 3). Thirty-two of the items, which appeared randomly in the questionnaire, were aimed specifically at determining Ss' expressed acceptance of traditional LatinAmerican family beliefs and are referred to as the &dquo;traditional sub-scale&dquo;.…”

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“…For example, a recent study by these writers (ref. 3), comparing the family beliefs of the Mexican with those of the Puerto Rican, clearly documented the wide acceptance of traditional Latin-American family beliefs among subjects of the two societies. The purpose of this paper is to determine if Diaz Guerrero's hypothesis is applicable to the Puerto Rican.…”

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