Culturally relevant stressors as moderators of intergenerational transmission of mother-adolescent executive function in Mexican immigrant families
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Published:2021-11-03
Issue:1
Volume:6
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ISSN:2365-7464
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Container-title:Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Cogn. Research
Author:
Kim Su YeongORCID, Song Jiaxiu, Wen Wen, Chen Shanting, Zhang Minyu, Yan Jinjin, Lopez Belem G., Arredondo Maria M., Ip Ka I.
Abstract
AbstractThe 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 (Mage = 17.03 years; SDage = 0.83; 58% females) and their Mexico-born mothers (Mage = 43.25 years; SDage = 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.
Funder
University of Texas at Austin National Science Foundation Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health Russell Sage Foundation Spencer Foundation Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Cognitive Neuroscience,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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