Publications by authors named "Mayra Y Bamaca"
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- The study examines how family and peer stressors affect alcohol use patterns in Mexican-origin adolescents over time, utilizing longitudinal data from 674 participants.
- Results indicate that early adolescent stressors are more effective as predictors of alcohol use trajectories when analyzed as growth trajectories rather than as individual instances of stress.
- The findings highlight the importance of developing strategies to reduce the long-term impact of stressors on alcohol consumption among Latinx youth.
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- Development occurs in various contexts such as families, schools, and neighborhoods, with significant scholarship focusing on how these environments impact outcomes like achievement and behavior, particularly influenced by early 20th-century sociological frameworks.
- Two emerging areas in neighborhood effects research highlight the importance of cultural factors and the influence of racial, ethnic, and immigrant backgrounds on youth development, expanding the understanding of various competencies often neglected in earlier studies.
- Activity space neighborhood researchers emphasize the relevance of both residential neighborhoods and broader activity settings in shaping youth experiences, utilizing new technologies and geographical methods to analyze how these environments impact their development over time.
The current study examines the role of ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) and maternal autonomy granting in predicting ethnic-racial identity (ERI) exploration, resolution, and affirmation trajectories in a sample of Mexican-origin girls (N = 338) in early and middle adolescence at Wave 1. Latent growth curve analyses showed significant growth in ERI exploration, resolution, and affirmation over 3.5 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Children who experience maltreatment are at heightened risk for substance use initiation and mental health disorders later in life. Few studies have assessed the relationship between child maltreatment and substance use among Latinx youth.
Objective: The current study assessed the potential mediating effect of three aspects of self-regulation (emotional, behavioral, and cognitive) on the association between child maltreatment and substance use and examined whether effects varied depending on maltreatment type and severity.
In this 14-day study, we tested whether Latinx adolescents' (M = 12.76 years, 52% female; 52% U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGuided by the academic resilience perspective, the current longitudinal study examined whether academic motivation mediated the relation between Latino adolescents' (N=221) experiences with discrimination and their academic success. The potential moderating role of gender was also examined. Using multiple group analysis in structural equation modeling, findings indicated that perceived discrimination at Wave 2 significantly predicted academic motivation at Waves 2 and 3 for boys but not girls.
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