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ERIC Number: EJ1318510
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 15
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ISSN: EISSN-2365-7464
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Culturally Relevant Stressors as Moderators of Intergenerational Transmission of Mother-Adolescent Executive Function in Mexican Immigrant Families
Kim, Su Yeong; Song, Jiaxiu; Wen, Wen; Chen, Shanting; Zhang, Minyu; Yan, Jinjin; Lopez, Belem G.; Arredondo, Maria M.; Ip, Ka I.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, v6 Article 70 2021
The intergenerational transmission of executive function may be enhanced or interrupted by culturally salient environmental stressors that shape the practice of executive function in the family. Building upon past research, the current study tests whether culturally relevant stressors such as economic stress and foreigner stress have a direct effect on adolescent executive function, as well as whether they modify the intergenerational transmission of mother-child executive function (i.e., working memory, inhibitory control, and shifting) in low-income Mexican immigrant families. The sample consists of 179 Mexican American adolescents (M[subscript age] = 17.03 years; SD[subscript age] = 0.83; 58% females) and their Mexico-born mothers (M[subscript age] = 43.25 years; SD[subscript age] = 5.90). Results show that mothers' perceived economic stress is associated with poor inhibitory control in adolescents. Low levels of mothers' perceived foreigner stress related to a stronger association between mothers' and adolescents' working memory, while high levels of mothers' perceived foreigner stress related to enhanced intergenerational transmission of poor shifting ability. Study findings demonstrate the prominence of perceived foreigner stress as a contextually relevant factor moderating the intergenerational transmission of mother-child executive function in low-income Mexican immigrant families.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1651128; 0956123; 1R21MD01270601A1; 3R21MD01270602S1; 5R03HD06004502; 2P2CHD04284919
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