Purposeful parenting by Mexican-heritage mothers: Advancing school readiness through social-emotional competence.
Conclusions: Understanding parents’ “concerted cultivation” in differing cultural contexts may facilitate teachers’ use of practices that better align with families’ home practices and more effectively support the learning of Latinx children across academic domains. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - July 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development of “CULTURE FORWARD: A strengths and culture-based tool to protect our native youth from suicide”.
Conclusions: CULTURE FORWARD honors and empowers communities by weaving strands of knowledge, stories, and practical resources highlighting Native communities’ strengths to protect against Native youth suicide. The guide is free online and print copies are being distributed nationally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development of “CULTURE FORWARD: A strengths and culture-based tool to protect our native youth from suicide”.
Conclusions: CULTURE FORWARD honors and empowers communities by weaving strands of knowledge, stories, and practical resources highlighting Native communities’ strengths to protect against Native youth suicide. The guide is free online and print copies are being distributed nationally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Quad-dimensional acculturation, cultural integration, and life satisfaction of South Sudanese refugee young adults in the United States: A quasilongitudinal qualitative study.
Conclusions: The findings have theoretical and practical implications for African refugees’ adjustment and psychological well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A structural model examining racism, stress, and psychological symptoms among Arab American adolescents.
This study tested a minority stress framework among Arab American adolescents by examining the association between racism and psychological symptoms both directly and indirectly via stress. Method: The sample included 223 Arab American adolescents whose ages ranged from 13 to 18 (M = 15.63, SD = 1.26; 51.1% boys; 49.3% Lebanese) drawn from the Detroit metropolitan area. Participants responded to measures of racism, stress, and internalizing and externalizing psychological symptoms. Results: The structural equation model provided good model fit to the data and indirect effects testing showed that the association between rac...
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - June 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parental enculturation and youth mental health functioning among Filipino American families.
Conclusions: This highlighted the need for better understanding of the cultural experiences and values of Filipino American parents when working with Filipino American children in clinical and research settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - June 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cultural mechanisms linking mothers’ familism values to externalizing behaviors among Midwest U.S. Latinx adolescents.
Conclusions: These findings provide support for cultural resilience perspectives by highlighting the protective role of ethnic identity and familism values among U.S. Latinx adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Risk and protective processes in the link between racial discrimination and Chinese American mothers’ psychologically controlling parenting.
Conclusions: Results illustrate the importance of incorporating the contextual stressor of perceived racial discrimination in parenting determinant models and examining specific and nuanced processes in understanding the role of psychological adjustment. Support for Chinese American mothers’ engagement in and access to various resources in the mainstream cultural context may help alleviate the adverse impact of racial discrimination on mothers’ psychological health and ultimately on their negative parenting behaviors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - May 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Discrimination and depressive symptoms among Black and Asian American college students: Shared and group-specific processes of self-concept.
Conclusions: Finding highlight group-specific processes underlying Black and Asian Americans’ experiences of discrimination and depressive symptoms. Findings also demonstrate shared processes of discrimination–depressive symptoms linkage across groups and underscore the need to address the pervasive issues of racism and discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Racial discrimination and trauma symptoms: Further support for the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale.
Conclusions: The RBTSSS demonstrates strong relations with other symptom measures and perceived discrimination, supporting the validity of the RBTSSS scores. Both researchers and practitioners may benefit from use of the instrument which captures emotional outcomes specific to racial trauma. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Family relationships and familism among Mexican Americans on the U.S.–Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: Although cross-sectional, these results provide preliminary evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of Mexican Americans in the border region, as well as cultural factors that promote resilience in times of stress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Foundations of Somali resilience: Collective identity, faith, and community.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that resilient outcomes among Somalis in San Diego are more likely to be promoted by community-based interventions that promote existing strengths and supports rather than focusing on individual coping mechanisms. There is a benefit to investing in community organizations and programs that support resilience-based interventions to overcome common mental disorders in this high-risk population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Foundations of Somali resilience: Collective identity, faith, and community.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that resilient outcomes among Somalis in San Diego are more likely to be promoted by community-based interventions that promote existing strengths and supports rather than focusing on individual coping mechanisms. There is a benefit to investing in community organizations and programs that support resilience-based interventions to overcome common mental disorders in this high-risk population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research