Abstract Among immigrant Asian and Latino groups, the contrast between collectivism in
traditional heritage and individualism in the mainstream American cultures presents unique …

The acculturation gap-distress model purports that immigrant children acculturate to their
new culture at a quicker pace than their parents, leading to family conflict and youth …

The lagging achievement of many US Latinos is staggering. Latinos have the highest high
school dropout rate. Further, second‐and third‐generation Latinos in the United States …

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

The present studies examined the extent to which (a) communalism, familism, and filial piety
would pattern onto a single family/relationship primacy construct;(b) this construct would be …

Adolescent Latinas continue to report higher levels of suicide attempts than their African-
American and White peers. The phenomenon is still not understood and is theorized to be …

The rapidly expanding number of Hispanics living in USA has increased the need for their
inclusion in research on physical and mental health. Current studies that have explored …

According to the family stress model (Conger & Donnellan, 2007), low socioeconomic status
(SES) predicts less-than-optimal parenting through family stress. Minority families generally …

This study examined the mental health and academic functioning of 442 4-and 5-year old
children of Mexican (MA) and Dominican (DA) immigrant mothers using a cultural framework …

Objective: The passage of several anti-immigrant policies has been linked to heightened
levels of discrimination for the Latino immigrant community. Many children are likely to be …