Parent-Adolescent Acculturation Profiles and Adolescent Language Brokering Experiences in Mexican Immigrant Families.

Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0333507 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-6601 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00472891 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Youth Adolesc Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 1999- : New York, NY : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Original Publication: New York, Plenum Press.

Acculturation* ; Parent-Child Relations*; Emigrants and Immigrants/*psychology ; Mexican Americans/*psychology ; Parents/*psychology; Adolescent ; Adolescent Behavior/ethnology ; Female ; Humans ; Language ; Longitudinal Studies ; Male ; Translating

Language brokering is a special form of interpersonal communication that is affected by the cultural and relational settings in which it occurs. The current study explores whether parent-adolescent acculturation status may influence Mexican American adolescent language brokers' translation experiences, including brokering frequency and attitudes. Using data from a two-wave longitudinal study (N wave1  = 604; N wave2  = 483; M wave1.age  = 12.91; 54.3% female), latent profile analyses were conducted, resulting in four mother-adolescent acculturation profiles as well as three father-adolescent profiles. The adolescent integrated-parent (moderately) separated profiles emerged as the most effective for brokers, as adolescents in this profile generally experienced more positive and less negative brokering attitudes, regardless of their brokering frequency. Parent-adolescent acculturation profiles may be a useful construct in capturing the interplay of cultural and relational settings and their effects on multifaceted language brokering experiences.

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P2C HD042849 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS; R03 HD060045 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS

Keywords: Acculturation; Language brokering; Parent–adolescent acculturation profiles; Parent–adolescent dyads

Date Created: 20190626 Date Completed: 20200914 Latest Revision: 20240619

20250114

PMC7903809

10.1007/s10964-019-01064-5

31236755