Culturally relevant stressors as moderators of intergenerational transmission of mother-adolescent executive function in Mexican immigrant families.

ABSTRACT: 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_age = 17.03 years; SD_age = 0.83; 58% females) and their Mexico-born mothers (M_age = 43.25 years; SD_age = 5.90).

SUBMITTER: Kim SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8566615 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature