▪ Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the concept of acculturation and reviews
existing evidence about the possible relationships between acculturation and selected …

An impressive amount of research has established that youth are likely to behave in a
manner consistent with the behavior of their friends (for a review, see Akers 1985). In …

The authors investigated relationships between marijuana and inhalant use and several
cultural and demographic factors in Anglo American and Hispanic American adolescents …

When we first began compiling a review of the literature concerning fathers and
developmental psychopathology several years ago, a colleague stated that fathers do not …

This longitudinal study examined how separation and family conflict mediated the effects of
two acculturation variables (English language use and generational status) on substance …

Data from the 2004 Monitoring the Future survey examined a nationally representative cross-
sectional sample of 8th to 12th grade adolescents in rural and urban schools from across the …

Discordant development of brain regions responsible for cognitive control and reward
processing may render adolescents susceptible to risk taking. Identifying ways to reduce this …

We propose a transdisciplinary, life span framework for examining the underlying cause of
the observed intergenerational decline in health among Hispanic Americans. We focus on …

IN 1986, MARKIDES AND COREIL STATED THAT “... it can be concluded with some
certainty that the health status of Hispanics in the Southwest is much more similar to the …

Background. Little is known about interpersonal and broader sociocultural factors related to
protection from or use of tobacco and alcohol among immigrant adolescents. This study …