@article{ref1,
title="Acculturation and aggression in Latino adolescents: a structural model focusing on cultural risk factors and assets",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2006",
author="Smokowski, Paul R. and Bacallao, Martica L.",
volume="34",
number="5",
pages="659-673",
abstract="The specific aim of this investigation was to map cultural factors associated with aggressive behavior in Latino adolescents. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 481 foreign- and U.S.-born Latino adolescents living in North Carolina and Arizona. Structural Equation Modeling was used to validate a conceptual model linking adolescent and parent culture-of-origin and U.S. cultural involvement, acculturation conflicts, and perceived discrimination to family processes (familism and parent-adolescent conflict) and adolescent aggression. Parent-adolescent conflict was the strongest cultural risk factor followed by perceived discrimination. Familism and adolescent culture-of-origin involvement were key cultural assets associated with less aggressive behavior. Exploratory mediation analyses suggested that familism and parent-adolescent conflict mediated the effects of acculturation conflicts, parent and adolescent culture-of-origin involvement, and parent U.S. cultural involvement on adolescent aggression. Implications for prevention programming were discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-006-9049-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-006-9049-4"
}