Hope Measurement in Mexican American Youth

Hope Measurement in Mexican American Youth

Acculturation Status and Substance Use Prevention with Mexican and Mexican-American Youth.

This study examined whether language preference, as an indicator of acculturation, moderated the effects of a culturally grounded substance use prevention intervention for Mexican and Mexican American middle school students (N = 2,146) in Phoenix, Arizona. The main hypothesis was that levels of program effectiveness would vary based on the language preference of the students and the specific cu...

Measurement Equivalence of Neighborhood Quality Measures for European American and Mexican American Families.

The factorial and construct equivalence of subscales assessing parents' and children's perceptions of the quality of their neighborhood was examined in Mexican American and European American families. All subscales (dangerous people in the neighborhood, sense of safety in the neighborhood, quality of the physical environment) demonstrated adequate partial factorial invariance across English- an...

A risk prediction model for smoking experimentation in Mexican American youth.

BACKGROUND Smoking experimentation in Mexican American youth is problematic. In light of the research showing that preventing smoking experimentation is a valid strategy for smoking prevention, there is a need to identify Mexican American youth at high risk for experimentation. METHODS A prospective population-based cohort of 1,179 adolescents of Mexican descent was followed for 5 years start...

A mediated moderation model of cigarette use among Mexican American youth.

The current study tested a model examining both the direct and mediated effects of Ethnic Cultural Norms (ECN) on cigarette use in a sample of Mexican American youth (ages 11-14; N=921). Contextual risk factors (peer smoking and family smoking) were included as potential moderators of this mediational relationship. A product of coefficient (alpha beta) method to test the significance of the med...