Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

3-2019

Abstract

Language brokering is a prevalent phenomenon in ethnic minority immigrant populations. Although accruing evidence points to the beneficial impacts of healthy role identity development, research investigating the formation of a language broker role identity in language brokering adolescents is lacking in the literature. In a sample of 604 Latinx adolescents (54.3% female; Mage at Time 1 = 12.41, SD = .97), structured equation modeling was conducted with maternal warmth and hostility examined as antecedents and adolescents’ life meaning as a mediator for language broker role identities. Results revealed that life meaning mediated the positive association from maternal warmth to language broker role identity. However, the negative association from maternal hostility to language broker role identity was no longer significant when accounting for maternal warmth. Corroborating extant findings, reciprocal relations were observed between maternal parenting practices, life meaning and language broker role identity. The results attest to the importance of investigating culturally specific role identity development in immigrant populations and demonstrates the role of maternal parenting practices in affecting adolescents’ role identity formation, albeit with contrasting gender effects.

Keywords

Language broker role identities, Maternal warmth, Maternal hostility, Life meaning

Discipline

Applied Behavior Analysis | Multicultural Psychology | Social Psychology

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volume

48

Issue

3

First Page

510

Last Page

526

ISSN

0047-2891

Identifier

10.1007/s10964-018-0963-x

Publisher

Springer

Embargo Period

10-9-2023

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0963-x

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