Publications

Publication details [#61775]

Bravo, Diamond Y., Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Russell B. Toomey, Kimberly A. Updegraff and Laudan B. Jahromi. 2016. Risky behaviors and educational attainment among young Mexican-origin mothers: The role of acculturative stress and the educational aspiration–expectation gap. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 52 : 13–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | behavior | expectation | foreign language proficiency | stress

Language as a subject

English | Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The impact of stress from English skills' and acculturative constraints on Mexican origin adolescent mothers’ educational success and risky conduct is mediated via the aspiration–expectation gap.