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Friday, 1:20 PM - 2:50 PM

Resources and Assets in Immigrant Latine Families: A Strength-Based Approach to Latine Adolescent Development

Adolescents in Latine families are more likely to experience institutional and socio-structural inequities (poverty, discrimination, racism, marginalization) that put them at risk for physical and mental health disparities and poorer developmental outcomes (Cabrera et al., 2022). However, researchers are increasingly using strength-based frameworks to highlight assets and resources that Latine individuals, families, and communities utilize to buffer against adversities they can experience. Using three unique data sets, this symposium provides evidence of challenges as well as important resources and protective factors utilized in immigrant Latine families in new-destination rural and urban communities across the U.S. Paper one examines psychological mechanisms (self-regulatory traits and ego-resiliency) underlying the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic stress and mental health in rural Latine adolescents in the Midwest. Paper two examines how experiences with peer discrimination and parent autonomy support predicts trajectory classes of Latina girls’ internalizing symptoms across adolescence in a suburban area of Atlanta, GA. Paper three uses mixed-method data to explore the importance of neighborhood contexts for the mental health of rural Latine immigrant mothers and the subsequent effects on their parenting behaviors in the Midwest. Paper four assesses whether parents’ support and psychological control, youth ethnic identity and youth familism serially mediate the relations between parents’ U.S. mainstream values and U.S. Latine youth prosocial behaviors in rural and urban communities in Nebraska. Together, our papers provide evidence for important protective factors (individual, familial, cultural) that could be utilized in intervention and prevention strategies with U.S. immigrant Latine families.

Paper #1
Title	Assessing Self-Regulation and Ego-Resiliency as Protective Against Pandemic Stress and Internalizing Problems in Latine Adolescents
Presenting author	Zoe Ellen Taylor, Ph.D., Purdue University, United States

Paper #2
Title	Predicting Trajectories of Internalizing Symptoms for Latina Girls From Early to Late Adolescence
Presenting author	Roushanac Partovi, M.P.H., The George Washington University, United States

Paper #3
Title	Neighborhood Impact on Mental Health and Parenting Among Latina Immigrant Mothers in the Rural Midwest
Presenting author	Jihee Im, Ph.D., Purdue University, United States

Paper #4
Title	Links Among Parents’ U.S. Mainstream Values, Parenting Practices, Culture-Related Mechanisms, and Prosociality in Latine Youth
Presenting author	Alysia M. Cruz, University of California, Irvine, United States

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Session chair
Zoe Ellen Taylor, Ph.D., Purdue University, United States

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