A longitudinal study of paternal and maternal involvement and neighborhood risk on recent immigrant Latino/a youth prosocial behaviors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra N. Davis ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Sahitya Maiya ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Jose Szapocznik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Maternal Involvement ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Neighborhood Risk

The Longitudinal Associations Between Discrimination, Depressive Symptoms, and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Latino/a Recent Immigrant Adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra N. Davis ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Jennifer B. Unger ◽  
Byron L. Zamboanga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

scholarly journals How does community service promote prosocial behavior? Examining the role of agency and ideology experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Christoph ◽  
Burkhard Gniewosz ◽  
Heinz Reinders
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
World Views ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Intraindividual Change ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions

This study examines community service effects on adolescents’ prosocial behaviors as mediated through experiences made during service. Based on theoretical assumptions by Youniss and Yates, we suggest that personal agency experiences and being confronted with situations that can challenge the own world views (ideology experiences) serve as mediators. The data were collected in a two-wave longitudinal study surveying 2,408 German adolescents aged between 14 and 15 years. Based on true intraindividual change models, the results support the expected mediation of service effects on prosocial behaviors through agency, but not ideology experiences. The findings suggest that community service affects prosocial behaviors through a behavioral pathway.

Stepfather Involvement and Adolescent Well-Being

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 1191-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia S. Vogt Yuan ◽  
Hayley A. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Maternal Involvement ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Nonresidential Father ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors explore how aspects of stepfather involvement are related to adolescent well-being and whether these relationships depend on maternal involvement, non-residential father involvement, or amount of time in the household. Results indicate that a close, nonconflictual stepfather-stepchild relationship improves adolescent well-being, but it is most beneficial when the adolescent also has a close, nonconflictual mother-child relationship. Engaging in shared activities with the stepfather decreases depression when the stepfather has been in the household for a longer period of time. The relationships between stepfather involvement and adolescent well-being are separate from nonresidential father involvement.

Examining discrimination and familism values as longitudinal predictors of prosocial behaviors among recent immigrant adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 016502542110055
Author(s):  
Alexandra N. Davis ◽  
Meredith McGinley ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Jennifer B. Unger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Helping Behaviors ◽  
Familism Values

The current study was designed to address gaps in the existing literature by examining the role of discrimination and familism values as predictors of multiple forms of prosocial behaviors across time in a sample of recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents. Participants were 302 recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents (53.3% male; average age 14.51 years, range = 13–17). Data were collected from adolescents in two U.S. cities: Los Angeles ( n = 150) and Miami ( n = 152). Adolescents completed measures of their own discrimination experiences, familism values, and tendency to engage in six forms of prosocial behaviors. Results indicated generally positive links between familism values and prosocial behaviors. Discrimination also positively predicted public prosocial behaviors and negatively predicted altruistic prosocial behaviors. We discuss the development of cultural processes and perceptions of discrimination experiences, and how these factors predict helping behaviors among immigrant adolescents.

scholarly journals A Parallel Process Model of Integration and Multidimensional Prosocial Behaviors in Recent Immigrant U.S. Latinx Adolescents

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412092826
Author(s):  
Meredith McGinley ◽  
Alexandra N. Davis ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Curve ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Latent Growth Curve ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Latent Growth ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Latinx Adolescents ◽  
Latinx Youth

With a growing population of Latinx youth immigrating to the United States, it is important to understand how Latinx youth adapt to mainstream U.S. culture. Given that the majority of research examining social development among recent immigrant adolescents has focused on negative adjustment outcomes, research examining positive social behaviors is needed to avoid deficit approaches to their development, gain a holistic understanding of youth development, and improve interventions with this population.This study examined the associations among trajectories in cultural integration and multiple prosocial behaviors among recent immigrant U.S. Latinx adolescents in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California. Adolescents ( N =  302; 53.3% males; M age = 14.51 years) completed measures of integration and prosocial behaviors across six time points. Latent growth curve models indicated that integration significantly increased, though this growth tapered off over time. The growth in prosocial behaviors depended on the specific form of helping assessed. While the growth in altruistic and compliant prosocial behaviors was stagnant, there was an increase in anonymous prosocial behaviors and a decrease in public and dire prosocial behaviors. Emotional behaviors did not linearly change, though slightly tapered off by the final time points. Parallel process latent growth curve model results indicated positive correlations between the slopes of cultural integration and most forms of prosocial behaviors. These findings highlight the positive role of cultural integration as an acculturative process for U.S. Latinx youth and the multidimensionality of prosocial behaviors.

scholarly journals The barriers faced by recent immigrant women in Hamilton and Toronto's rental housing markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Gail Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Housing Corporation ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Rental Housing Market

The overall purpose of this paper is to add to the existing body of literature on the housing situation and needs of recent immigrant households by placing the unique experiences of recent immigrant women at the centre of the study. It will begin with a review of the existing literature on immigration and housing, with a particular focus on the barriers facing newcomers in the rental housing market. Based on data from Statistics Canada, the Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), studies conducted by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and interviews with persons with demonstrated knowledge of the barriers facing newcomer women searching for adequate, suitable and affordable housing, this paper aims to provide an overview of the difficulties that many newcomer women face in their search for and retention of housing in Hamilton and Toronto. It also includes a series of recommendations addressing some of these barriers.

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