Pathways linking ethnic discrimination and drug-using peer affiliation to underage drinking status among Mexican-origin adolescents.

Abstract A large body of research has documented how personality develops across adulthood, yet very little longitudinal work has examined whether these findings generalize beyond predominantly middle-class, highly-educated White American or Western European individuals. This pre-registered study uses longitudinal data from 1,110 Mexican-origin adults who completed a well-validated personality measure, the Big Five Inventory, up to 6 times across 12 years (median age at Wave 1 = 37.7; range = 26 to 65). Individuals generally maintained their rank ordering on the Big Five over time (rs=.66-.80), and all of the Big Five traits showed small, mean-level decreases across adulthood. These trajectories had few associations with sociodemographic factors (sex, education level, IQ) and cultural factors (generational status, age at immigration, Spanish/English language preference, Mexican cultural values, American cultural values, ethnic discrimination). Divergences between the present findings and previous research highlight the need to study personality development across diverse aging samples.

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Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Mental Health in Mexican-Origin Youths and Their Parents: Testing the “Linked Lives” Hypothesis

Journal of Adolescent Health ◽

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.10.010 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (4) ◽

pp. 480-487 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Irene J.K. Park ◽

Han Du ◽

Lijuan Wang ◽

David R. Williams ◽

Margarita Alegría

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Linked Lives ◽

Racial Ethnic

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Stability and Change in the Big Five Across Adulthood: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Individuals

10.31234/osf.io/bvq98 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Olivia E. Atherton ◽

Angelina Sutin ◽

Antonio Terracciano ◽

Richard Robins

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Sex Education ◽

Big Five ◽

English Language ◽

Personality Development ◽

Large Body ◽

Sociodemographic Factors ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Big Five Personality

A large body of research has documented how personality develops across adulthood, yet very little longitudinal work has examined whether these findings generalize beyond predominantly middle-class, highly-educated White American or Western European individuals. This pre-registered study uses longitudinal data from 1,110 Mexican-origin adults who completed a well-validated personality measure, the Big Five Inventory, up to 6 times across 12 years. Individuals generally maintained their rank ordering on the Big Five over time (rs=.66-.80), and the relative ordering of the Big Five within persons was also highly stable (rs=.58-.66). All of the Big Five traits showed small, linear mean-level decreases across adulthood. These trajectories showed few associations with sociodemographic factors (sex, education level, and IQ) and cultural factors (generational status, age at immigration, Spanish/English language preference, Mexican cultural values, American cultural values, and ethnic discrimination). The statistically significant findings we did observe mostly concerned associations between cultural values and Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Openness. Acquiescence bias was also positively associated with Big Five personality trait scores at every wave. There was no evidence of mean-level change in the Big Five when including time-varying acquiescence scores as covariates in the models. Divergences between the present findings and previous research highlight the need to study personality development with more diverse aging samples.

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Coping (together) with hate: Strategies used by Mexican-origin families in response to racial–ethnic discrimination.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/fam0000760 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michelle Y. Martin Romero ◽

Laura M. Gonzalez ◽

Gabriela L. Stein ◽

Samantha Alvarado ◽

Lisa Kiang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Racial Ethnic

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Life Satisfaction Trajectories during Adolescence and the Transition to Young Adulthood: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Mexican-origin Youth

10.31234/osf.io/7qzs9 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Emily C Willroth ◽

Olivia E. Atherton ◽

Richard Robins

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Young Adulthood ◽

Middle Age ◽

Well Being ◽

Late Adolescence ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Mexican Origin Youth ◽

Middle Adolescence ◽

Being There

Despite the importance of life satisfaction for health and well-being, there is a paucity of longitudinal studies tracking changes in life satisfaction in ethnic minority youth. Using a sample of 674 Mexican-origin youth, the present research examined life satisfaction trajectories from middle (age 14) to late adolescence (age 17) and from late adolescence to young adulthood (age 21). On average, life satisfaction did not change significantly from age 14 to 17, and then decreased from age 17 to 21 (d = .30), perhaps reflecting difficulties transitioning into adult roles. Drawing on ecological systems theory, we examined both proximal (i.e., family) and distal (i.e., social-contextual) environmental factors (measured via self- and parent-reports) that may account for between-person variation in life satisfaction trajectories. Youth with more positive family environments in middle adolescence (age 14) had higher mean life satisfaction from middle adolescence to young adulthood (age 21). In contrast, youth with more negative family environments and who experienced greater economic hardship and more ethnic discrimination in middle adolescence (age 14) had lower life satisfaction during this period. Many of these factors also predicted change in life satisfaction from middle (age 14) to late adolescence (age 17), but not from late adolescence to young adulthood (age 21). This research extends the current understanding of life satisfaction during a critical developmental period in an understudied population.

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Immigrant Youth in Germany

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000154 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 158-168 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Emily Frankenberg ◽

Katharina Kupper ◽

Ruth Wagner ◽

Stephan Bongard

Keyword(s):

School System ◽

Large Scale ◽

Age Groups ◽

Well Being ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Emotional And Behavioral Problems ◽

Sociocultural Adaptation ◽

Age Related ◽

German School ◽

Transcultural Adaptation

This paper reviews research on young migrants in Germany. Particular attention is given to the question of how Germany’s history of migration, immigration policies, and public attitude toward migrants influence the transcultural adaptation of children and adolescents from different ethnic backgrounds. We combine past research with the results of new empirical studies in order to shed light on migrants’ psychological and sociocultural adaptation. Studies comparing young migrants and their German peers in terms of psychological well-being, life satisfaction, and mental health outcome suggest higher rates of emotional and behavioral problems among migrants of most age groups. With regard to adolescent populations between the ages of 14 and 17 years, however, the existence of differences between migrants and natives appears to be less clear. Research has also yielded inconsistent findings regarding the time trajectory of transcultural adaptation among adolescents. The coincidence of acculturation and age-related change is discussed as a possible source of these inconsistencies. Further, we provide an overview of risk and protective factors such as conflicting role expectations and ethnic discrimination, which may cause heightened vulnerability to adverse adaptation outcomes in some groups. Large-scale studies have repeatedly shown migrants of all age groups to be less successful within the German school system, indicating poor sociocultural adaptation. Possible explanations, such as the idiosyncrasies of the German school system, are presented. Our own studies contribute to the understanding of young migrants’ adaptation process by showing that it is their orientation to German culture, rather than the acculturation strategy of integration, that leads to the most positive psychological and sociocultural outcomes. The paper concludes by discussing implications for future cross-cultural research on young migrants and by suggesting recommendations for multicultural policies.

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