This study examines the relationship between language brokering, parent-child bonding, perceived autonomy, biculturalism, and depression for Mexican American adolescents. It was hypothesized that adolescent language brokers who reported a strong parent-child bond and high levels of psychological autonomy, privilege, and responsibility would also…

A southern California telephone survey of 396 European American, native-born Latina, and foreign-born Latina mothers with a child aged 5 or younger examined differences in child care practices and preferences, availability of extended family to provide child care, availability of affordable day care centers, and satisfaction with their current…

Study of 122 9th- and 10th-grade Latino high school students examined the relationship of language brokering (informal interpreting for immigrant parents) to academic performance, biculturalism, academic self-efficacy, and social self-efficacy. Results showed positive relationships, with academic self-efficacy being the strongest predictor of…

A study of significant variations in the number of Anglo and Mexican Americans referred for child abuse and neglect by official public agencies and community sources such as family and friends. In contrast to Anglo Americans, Mexican Americans were referred more often by school personnel than by neighbors or friends. (Author/NQ)

Examines and compares the role of success, failure, and effort in reinforcement practices of 40 immigrant and 40 native-born Mexican American mothers to a baseline group of 27 middle-class Euro-American mothers. Discusses results in terms of selective immigration of Mexican mothers and acculturation to United States society. (NEC)

Investigates 81 first, second, and third-generation Mexican American male adolescents to test whether integration with traditional Mexican American culture promotes healthy psychological adjustment and less juvenile delinquency. Finds no differences in educational aspiration, but that third-generation subjects had lower expectations, higher…

Examines disciplinary practices and child-maltreatment attitudes in foreign- and native-born Mexican-American mothers. Subjects responded to accounts of child misconduct and mistreatment. Foreign-born mothers more likely than natives to use spanking and verbal reasoning. Spanking not preferred by either group. Child-mistreatment-response…

Finds that, among 45 Mexican-American families, level of acculturation was significantly related to most external family systems variables: independence, achievement orientation, intellectual and cultural orientation, and active recreational orientation. Acculturation was not related to moral and religious emphasis or any measure of internal…