TY - JOUR
T1 - Intergenerational transmission of cultural socialization and effects on young children's developmental competencies among Mexican-origin families
AU - Williams, Chelsea D.
AU - Bravo, Diamond Y.
AU - Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.
AU - Updegraff, Kimberly A.
AU - Jahromi, Laudan B.
AU - Martinez-Fuentes, Stefanie
AU - de Jesus Elias, María
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the Department of Health and Human Services (APRPA006011; PI: Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor), the Fahs Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation of the New York Community Trust (PI: Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD061376; PI: Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor and 1F31HD085772-01; PI: Chelsea D. Williams) and the Challenged Child Project of the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. We thank the adolescents and female family members who participated in this study. We also thank Edna Alfaro, Mayra Bámaca, Emily Cansler, Lluliana Flores, Melinda Gonzales-Backen, Elizabeth Harvey, Melissa Herzog, Sarah Killoren, Ethelyn Lara, Esther Ontiveros, Jacqueline Pflieger, Alicia Godinez, and the undergraduate research assistants of the Supporting MAMI project for their contributions to the larger study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - The current 3-generation (N = 204 families), 3-year longitudinal study examined the intergenerational transmission of cultural socialization among Mexican-origin young mothers and their own mothers (i.e., children's grandmothers) and, in turn, whether young mothers' cultural socialization informed their children's developmental competencies (i.e., interactive play with peers, receptive language, and internalizing and externalizing problem behavior) one year later. Results indicated that mediation was significant, such that grandmother-mother cultural socialization, when children were 3 years old, informed greater mother-child cultural socialization when children were 4 years old, which, in turn, informed children's greater receptive language and interactive play with peers when children were 5 years old. Findings highlight the importance of intergenerational cultural socialization on young children's developmental competencies.
AB - The current 3-generation (N = 204 families), 3-year longitudinal study examined the intergenerational transmission of cultural socialization among Mexican-origin young mothers and their own mothers (i.e., children's grandmothers) and, in turn, whether young mothers' cultural socialization informed their children's developmental competencies (i.e., interactive play with peers, receptive language, and internalizing and externalizing problem behavior) one year later. Results indicated that mediation was significant, such that grandmother-mother cultural socialization, when children were 3 years old, informed greater mother-child cultural socialization when children were 4 years old, which, in turn, informed children's greater receptive language and interactive play with peers when children were 5 years old. Findings highlight the importance of intergenerational cultural socialization on young children's developmental competencies.
KW - Cultural/ethnic/racial/ethnic-racial socialization
KW - Families
KW - Interactive play with peers
KW - Intergenerational cultural transmission
KW - Internalizing/externalizing problem behavior
KW - Receptive language
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U2 - 10.1037/dev0000859
DO - 10.1037/dev0000859
M3 - Article
C2 - 31697095
AN - SCOPUS:85075741324
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 56
SP - 199
EP - 207
JO - Developmental psychology
JF - Developmental psychology
IS - 2
ER -