TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Parent immigration stress predicts youth externalizing behavior trajectories among Latino families in an emerging immigrant context
JO  - Family Process
A1  - Cobb, Cory L.
A1  - Martínez, Charles R. Jr
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - According to ecodevelopmental and social learning models, Latino immigrant parents experience considerable stress associated with the immigration process, and such immigration-related stress is theorized to influence behavioral outcomes among their youth. Using a three-year longitudinal design among 217 Latino immigrant families in western Oregon, we assessed whether parents' (94% mothers, M(age)  = 36.2 years) experience of immigration-related stress influenced the trajectory of their adolescents' (43% female, M(age) = 13.4 years) externalizing behaviors. Controlling for covariates (gender, acculturation, age at migration, and gender), results showed that youth exhibited a normative downward trajectory for externalizing behaviors, and parents' experience of immigration stress significantly and negatively predicted this trajectory. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that parents' experience of immigration stress may disrupt a normative trajectory of declining externalizing behaviors among Latino immigrant adolescents.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0014-7370
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/famp.12726
ID  - ref1
ER  -