@article{ref1,
title="Acculturative stress and school belonging among Latino youth",
journal="Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences",
year="2012",
author="Roche, Cathy and Kuperminc, Gabriel P.",
volume="34",
number="1",
pages="61-76",
abstract="Dimensions of acculturative stress and their implications for school belonging and achievement were examined among 199 Latino middle-school students. The proposed model hypothesized that school belonging would mediate the association between acculturative stress dimensions and low school achievement. Eighty percent youth of the sample were immigrants, 73% had Mexican origins, 57% were girls, and the mean age of the participants was 13.6 years. A factor analysis yielded two dimensions of acculturative stress: discrimination stress and immigration-related stress. Immigration-related stress was associated with age of immigration, but discrimination stress was not. <br><br>FINDINGS supported the hypothesis that lack of school belonging may be a mechanism by which discrimination stress, but not immigration-related stress, decreases school performance among Latino youth.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0739-9863",
doi="10.1177/0739986311430084",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739986311430084"
}