Lexical diversity development in newly arrived parent-child immigrant pairs: Aptitude, age, exposure, and anxiety

Newly arrived immigrant women in the work force

During the 1970s and 1980s, the broad outlines of a picture of migrant women workers' experiences were delineated in the Australian literature (see Martin 1984 and 1986). After describing this picture, this chapter will review the Australian literature on non-English speaking (NES) migrant women workers in more detail, focusing particularly on research findings that refer to newly arrived women...

Relations between residential and workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrant men and women

Parent-child cultural orientations and child adjustment in Chinese American immigrant families.

Direct and indirect/mediated relations of (a) children's and parents' cultural orientations and (b) parent-child gaps in cultural orientations to children's psychological adjustment were examined in a socioeconomically diverse sample of 258 Chinese American children (age = 6-9 years) from immigrant families. Parents reported on children's and their own Chinese and American orientations in langu...

PARENTING SKILLS Parent-Child Relationships in Early Childhood and Development of Anxiety & Depression

Parents play a substantial role in shaping children’s emotional health, particularly in early childhood. 1 To better understand the impact of the parent-child relationship on the development of anxiety and depression in young children, research has focused on three main constructs 1) the degree to which a parent may be overprotective and/or critical, 2) parental modelling of anxiety and 3) the ...

The influence of parent preprocedural anxiety on child procedural pain: mediation by child procedural anxiety.

OBJECTIVE Data suggest parents' preprocedural anxiety is related to children's acute procedural anxiety and pain. This study examined the temporal relations among these constructs to determine whether children's anxiety mediates the relation between parents' anticipatory anxiety and children's procedural pain. METHODS A total of 90 preschoolers receiving immunizations, their parents, and the ...