Mmigrant status) that may be associated with cultural socialization and family-peer

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Mmigrant status) that may be associated with cultural socialization and family-peer congruence. For example, adolescents who are females, whose parents have higher education, and who are from intact families tend to receive greater cultural socialization toward their heritage culture (T. N. Brown, Tanner-Smith, Lesane-Brown, Ezell, 2007). Additionally, African American youth tend to receive MG-132 site messages about the mainstream culture more frequently than do Latino youth (Hughes, 2003). Finally, immigrant parents tend to socialize their children more toward their heritage culture (Uma -Taylor, Alfaro, B aca, Guimond, 2009), whereas U.S.-born parents are more likely to practice mainstream cultural socialization. The experience of family-peer incongruence, thus, may be more typical for adolescents from immigrant families than those with U.S.-born parents (Zhou, 1997). Informed by these demographic variations, we include adolescent gender, socioeconomic status, family structure, race/ ethnicity, and immigrant status as control variables in the present study.Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript MethodParticipantsAuthor ManuscriptData were drawn from a larger study of adolescents’ development in context (the Schools, Peers, and Adolescent Development Project; Project SPAD) conducted with 8th grade students at two middle schools in the South. The current sample includes 236 racial/ethnic minority adolescents (89 Latinos, 11 African Americans; 51 female). A majority of the participants (69 ) were born in the U.S., and a majority of their parents (78 fathers, 74 mothers) were foreign-born. The sample has a relatively high percentage of students whose parents did not graduate from high school (59 ). The racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the sample was comparable to those of the larger studentJ Youth Adolesc. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 March 16.Wang and BennerPagebody at the schools from which they were drawn, which were predominantly Latino (86 ) and socioeconomically disadvantaged (i.e., 97 of the students receiving free-or-reducedprice lunch). Demographic information of the sample is shown in Table 1. Procedures The research team identified two middle schools with concentrated racial/ethnic minority populations in a central city in the South. Upon gaining approval from the local school district and school administrators, the research team distributed parent consent forms to the entire 8th grade during advisory periods; all students who returned parent consent forms were entered into a drawing for four iPods. Students whose parents provided consent (62 of all the eligible students at School 1 and 69 at School 2) were then asked to provide student assent and complete the survey. Each participant received a small monetary compensation ( 15) for completing the survey, and each school received a small PD150606 side effects honorarium for assistance in coordination of data collection activities. All consent and assent forms and student surveys were available in English and Spanish. To ensure comparability, questionnaires were translated into Spanish and then back-translated into English. Inconsistencies were resolved by two bilingual research team members, with careful consideration of items’ culturally-appropriate meaning. The majority of the students completed surveys in English (92 ). Measures Cultural socialization–We used a cultural socialization measure developed specifically for Project SPAD (Y. Wang et al., 2015).Mmigrant status) that may be associated with cultural socialization and family-peer congruence. For example, adolescents who are females, whose parents have higher education, and who are from intact families tend to receive greater cultural socialization toward their heritage culture (T. N. Brown, Tanner-Smith, Lesane-Brown, Ezell, 2007). Additionally, African American youth tend to receive messages about the mainstream culture more frequently than do Latino youth (Hughes, 2003). Finally, immigrant parents tend to socialize their children more toward their heritage culture (Uma -Taylor, Alfaro, B aca, Guimond, 2009), whereas U.S.-born parents are more likely to practice mainstream cultural socialization. The experience of family-peer incongruence, thus, may be more typical for adolescents from immigrant families than those with U.S.-born parents (Zhou, 1997). Informed by these demographic variations, we include adolescent gender, socioeconomic status, family structure, race/ ethnicity, and immigrant status as control variables in the present study.Author Manuscript Author Manuscript Author Manuscript MethodParticipantsAuthor ManuscriptData were drawn from a larger study of adolescents’ development in context (the Schools, Peers, and Adolescent Development Project; Project SPAD) conducted with 8th grade students at two middle schools in the South. The current sample includes 236 racial/ethnic minority adolescents (89 Latinos, 11 African Americans; 51 female). A majority of the participants (69 ) were born in the U.S., and a majority of their parents (78 fathers, 74 mothers) were foreign-born. The sample has a relatively high percentage of students whose parents did not graduate from high school (59 ). The racial/ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the sample was comparable to those of the larger studentJ Youth Adolesc. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 March 16.Wang and BennerPagebody at the schools from which they were drawn, which were predominantly Latino (86 ) and socioeconomically disadvantaged (i.e., 97 of the students receiving free-or-reducedprice lunch). Demographic information of the sample is shown in Table 1. Procedures The research team identified two middle schools with concentrated racial/ethnic minority populations in a central city in the South. Upon gaining approval from the local school district and school administrators, the research team distributed parent consent forms to the entire 8th grade during advisory periods; all students who returned parent consent forms were entered into a drawing for four iPods. Students whose parents provided consent (62 of all the eligible students at School 1 and 69 at School 2) were then asked to provide student assent and complete the survey. Each participant received a small monetary compensation ( 15) for completing the survey, and each school received a small honorarium for assistance in coordination of data collection activities. All consent and assent forms and student surveys were available in English and Spanish. To ensure comparability, questionnaires were translated into Spanish and then back-translated into English. Inconsistencies were resolved by two bilingual research team members, with careful consideration of items’ culturally-appropriate meaning. The majority of the students completed surveys in English (92 ). Measures Cultural socialization–We used a cultural socialization measure developed specifically for Project SPAD (Y. Wang et al., 2015).