Acculturation and the Health and Well-Being of U.S. Immigrant Adolescents

6/10/2002


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Acculturation and the Health and Well-Being of U.S. Immigrant Adolescents

Background

Study Objective

Methods

Study Population

Variables

Language at Home and Nativity Status Within Race/Ethnicity Groups (Percents)

Odds Ratios of Selected Outcomes Based on Language at Home Among N-H Whites

Odds Ratios of Selected Outcomes Based on Language at Home Among N-H Blacks

Odds Ratios of Selected Outcomes Based on Language at Home Among Hispanics

Odds Ratios of Selected Outcomes Based on Language at Home Among Asians

Odds Ratios of Parents Not Ready to Help Among Students Who Speak Only Another Language at Home

Odds Ratios of Parents Expecting Too Much of Student at School Among Students Who Speak Only Another Language at Home

Odds Ratios of Parent Not Willing to Talk to Teacher Among Students Who Speak Another Language

Odds Ratios of Being Bullied at School Among Students Who Speak Another Language

Odds Ratios of Not Feeling Safe at School Among Students Who Speak Another Language

Conclusions

Limitations

Implications

Author: Dr. C. Elizabeth Castro