Examining sociocultural and neighborhood factors associated with trajectories of Mexican-origin mothers’ education-related involvement. Bhargava, S., Bámaca-Colbert, M. Y., Witherspoon, D. P., Pomerantz, E. M., & Robins, R. W. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46:1789-1804, 2017.
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Parental involvement in education is an impor-tant determinant of youth’s academic success. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how Latino parents’ education-related involvement changes over time. Using data from a long-itudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin families (mother-adolescent dyad; Mage of child at Wave 1=10.4, SD = 0.60), we examined trajectories of parental involvement from 5th to 11th grade and the effects of socio-cultural (e.g., family SES and acculturation) and contextual (e.g., neighborhood) factors on these trajectories. Results showed that mothers reduced two aspects of the educational involvement: home-based involvement and academic aspirations, but increased on a third aspect of involvement, resource seeking. Fur-thermore, family SES, acculturation, and neighborhood context were differentially associated with mothers’ invol-vement at 5th grade and predicted changes in involvement across elementary and high school.
@article{BhargavaBamacaColbertWitherspoonPomerantzRobins2017,
author = {Bhargava, S. and Bámaca-Colbert, M. Y. and Witherspoon, D. P. and Pomerantz, E. M. and Robins, R. W.},
journal = {Journal of Youth and Adolescence},
abstract = {Parental involvement in education is an impor-tant determinant of youth’s academic success. Yet, there is limited knowledge on how Latino parents’ education-related involvement changes over time. Using data from a long-itudinal study of 674 Mexican-origin families (mother-adolescent dyad; Mage of child at Wave 1=10.4, SD = 0.60), we examined trajectories of parental involvement from 5th to 11th grade and the effects of socio-cultural (e.g., family SES and acculturation) and contextual (e.g., neighborhood) factors on these trajectories. Results showed that mothers reduced two aspects of the educational involvement: home-based involvement and academic aspirations, but increased on a third aspect of involvement, resource seeking. Fur-thermore, family SES, acculturation, and neighborhood context were differentially associated with mothers’ invol-vement at 5th grade and predicted changes in involvement across elementary and high school.},
pages = {1789-1804},
title = {Examining sociocultural and neighborhood factors associated with trajectories of Mexican-origin mothers’ education-related involvement},
volume = {46},
year = {2017},
keywords = {mothers,trajectories,factors,involvement,acculturation,ses,neighborhood,grade,determinant,latino},
}

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