Burdened or Efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American Language Brokers, Predictors, and Long-Term Outcomes
| dc.contributor.author | Shen, Yishan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kim, Su Yeong | |
| dc.contributor.author | Benner, Aprile D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-16T17:08:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-16T17:08:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Despite growing research on youth language brokering in immigrant families, evidence regarding its developmental outcomes remains mixed. This study took a person-centered approach, exploring subgroups of language brokers and identifying predictors and long-term outcomes of the subgroup membership. Participants were Chinese American adolescents (N = 350 at Time 1; M<sub>age</sub> = 17.04; SD = 0.72; 59% female) followed over two waves spaced four years apart (longitudinal N = 291). Two distinct subgroups of adolescent language brokers were identified using latent profile analyses on language brokering feelings: efficacious and burdened brokers. Adolescents proficient in both English and Chinese were more likely to be efficacious brokers. Furthermore, burdened brokers reported higher parent-child alienation, and in turn, more depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood, compared to efficacious brokers and non-language-brokers. The current findings inform future interventions that burdened language brokers may be most at risk and that improving parent-child relationships may be one way to promote the well-being of young brokers. | |
| dc.description.department | Family and Consumer Sciences | |
| dc.description.version | This is the accepted manuscript version of an article published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. | |
| dc.format | Text | |
| dc.format.extent | 28 pages | |
| dc.format.medium | 1 file (.pdf) | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shen, Y., Kim, S. Y., & Benner, A. D. (2019). Burdened or efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American language brokers, predictors, and long-term outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(1), pp. 154-169. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0916-4 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0047-2891 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10877/9452 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.source | Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2019, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 154-169. | |
| dc.subject | Chinese American | |
| dc.subject | emerging adulthood | |
| dc.subject | language brokering | |
| dc.subject | adolescence | |
| dc.subject | Family and Consumer Sciences | |
| dc.title | Burdened or Efficacious? Subgroups of Chinese American Language Brokers, Predictors, and Long-Term Outcomes | |
| dc.type | Article |