TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Correlations among socioeconomic and family factors and academic, behavioral, and emotional difficulties in Filipino adolescents in Hawaii
JO  - International journal of social psychiatry
A1  - Guerrero, Anthony P. S.
A1  - Hishinuma, Earl S.
A1  - Andrade, Naleen N.
A1  - Nishimura, Stephanie T.
A1  - Cunanan, Vanessa L.
SP  - 343
EP  - 359
VL  - 52
IS  - 4
N2  - BACKGROUND: Because of socioeconomic and acculturative challenges faced by immigrant families, Filipino adolescents in Hawaii may be at risk for academic, behavioral and emotional difficulties. AIM: To determine, among Filipino adolescents in Hawaii, whether measures of economic hardship and lower socioeconomic status (SES) correlate positively with poor school performance, aggressive behavior, substance use, anxiety, and depression; and whether family support and cultural identification correlate negatively with these difficulties. METHODS: 216 Filipino adolescents from four public high schools in Hawai'i (1993-1994) were given surveys that assessed basic demographic information, measures of family support and other social variables, and measures of school performance, depression, anxiety, aggression and substance use. RESULTS: In the total sample, low SES seemed to correlate with poor school performance and behavioral and emotional difficulties. In both the total sample and the sub-sample of adolescents with lower SES, family support was a universally strong protective factor. Learning genealogy was positively correlated with school performance, and speaking a language other than English was inversely correlated with substance use (in the whole sample) and depression (in the lower SES sub-sample). CONCLUSIONS: For Filipino adolescents (in both the whole and lower-SES samples), family support was an important protective factor against academic, behavioral and emotional difficulties. The role of cultural identification as a risk or protective factor among Filipino adolescents deserves further investigation.     <p></p>    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0020-7640
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -