Concurrent Sessions 8 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

317-01: Latinas' Experiences With Discrimination, Family Support, and Motivations For Attending College
Edna Alfaro

Summary
Consistent with the risk and resilience perspective, the current study examined how protective factors at the family level (i.e., academic support from mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers) minimized the relations between discrimination and college motivations. Discrimination was positively related to Latina (N = 249) college students' motivation based on their desire to prove their self-worth. Academic support partially moderated the relation between discrimination and college motivation. When students reported higher levels of mothers' academic support, experiences with discrimination were negatively related to college motivation based on a desire to meet others' expectations. Conversely, high levels of mothers' and sisters' academic support increased the likelihood that experiences with discrimination would be positively related to college motivation based on a desire to prove self-worth.

Objectives
-- To assess the impact of discrimination on Latina college students' motivations for attending college
-- To examine whether academic support minimizes the impact of discrimination of college motivation.
-- To establish the importance of examining mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters as independent sources of Latinx college students' academic support.

Subject Codes: discrimination, education, family relations
Population Codes: emerging/young adulthood, undergraduate students, Hispanic/Latina/o/x
Method and Approach Codes: regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical), resilience, research, general

317-02: Assessing Latina Sisters' Dyadic Coping
Sarah Killoren, Edna Alfaro, Nicole Campione-Barr, Ashley Randall

Summary
Siblings are important sources of support for one another and they may engage in dyadic coping (i.e., helping one another cope) when they experience stressors external to their relationships. Using a sample of 190 Latina young adults who have sisters, we found initial evidence that our adapted version of the Dyadic Coping Inventory for use with siblings (DCI-S) was a reliable and valid measure. Specifically, we found that aspects of dyadic coping (positive, negative, and common) were correlated with related constructs, including family cohesion, familism values, sibling intimacy, and sibling negativity. Our results revealed that Latina young adults who communicate about stress with their sisters and engage in common dyadic coping, have lower depressive symptoms than those who do not engage in common dyadic coping.

Objectives
-- To examine factor structure of an adapted measure of the Dyadic Coping Inventory for use with sisters.
-- To explore correlates of Latina sisters' dyadic coping.
-- To investigate how sisters' communication about stress and their dyadic coping is associated with Latina young adults' depressive symptoms.

Subject Codes: coping, stress
Population Codes: Hispanic/Latina/o/x
Method and Approach Codes: quantitative methodology, regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical)

317-04: "If You Don't Have Papers, You Don't Have Rights": Critical Consciousness Among Central American Immigrant Mothers in an Anti-Immigrant Era
Bethany Letiecq, Rachael Goodman, Beth Davis, Danielka Zeledon, Colleen Vesely, Marlene Marquez

Summary
Drawing upon Paulo Friere's critical work on oppression and emancipation, the purpose of this proposed paper is to describe the critical consciousness and meaning-making of Central American immigrant mothers living under deportation threat in mixed status families. This paper details our work to establish a community-based, participatory action research project co-led by Latina immigrant mothers and Latina community organizers. We present our phenomenological analysis of two waves of in-depth interview data (N =26) conducted in Spanish and analyzed using a community coding strategy. Findings reveal complex narratives of sacrifice, suffering, and hope, of ambivalence and purpose, and of persistence, resignation, resilience, and agency. Within the context of deportation threat and anti-immigrant hostilities, implications for future community-based research and action are discussed.

Objectives
-- To understand the lived experiences and critical consciousness of Central American immigrant mothers rearing children in the context of deportation threat and anti-immigrant laws and policies.
-- To gain knowledge of community-based, participatory action research and analytical approaches used in partnership with Latina immigrant mothers.
-- To examine the complex narratives of Latina immigrants' experiences of oppression and marginalization and their agency to overcome.

Subject Codes: immigration, marginalization, resilience
Population Codes: Hispanic/Latina/o/x, undocumented immigrant, those in poverty
Method and Approach Codes: community participation/action research, phenomenology, applied research

317-05: Evaluating the Behavioral Process Model of Familism For Midwest Latinx Families
Elizabeth Coppola, Maciel Hernández, Blake Jones, Zoe Taylor

Summary
The behavioral process model of familism (BPMF) was developed to guide research on familism, family processes, and youth development in the context of parent-child relationships, although this model has yet to be tested. With data from Latinx adolescents (N= 119, Mage = 11.54 years old), we tested pathways hypothesized by the BPMF. Consistent with the BPMF and the previous work that informed it, mothers' familism was concurrently associated with youth familism, parenting behaviors were positively associated with youth familism, youth familism was positively associated with peer competence, and peer competence was associated with youth depressive symptoms. These findings add to the growing body of literature on familism and underscore the role of parenting and youth behaviors on familism processes.

Objectives
-- To evaluate the Behavioral Process Model of Familism.
-- To understand associations between mothers' familism and youth familism.
-- To understand how the parent-child context influences adolescent outcomes.

Subject Codes: depression, family processes, relationship quality
Population Codes: adolescence, Hispanic/Latina/o/x, rural
Method and Approach Codes: contextual, diversity, structural equation modeling (SEM)


317-06: Adolescent Sibling Caregiving and Responsibility in Adulthood: Retrospective Reports Among Latina/o/x Young Adults
Gabrielle Kline, Sarah Killoren, Samantha Jones

Summary
Using an adapted cultural transmission model, we examined associations between familism values, sibling caregiving and success during young adulthood, specifically personal accountability and behavioral and emotional control, among 350 Latina/o/x young adults. Wefound thatfamilism values were positively associated with sibling caregiving, personal accountability, and behavioral and emotional control. Sibling caregiving was positively associated with personal accountability. Familism values were positively associated with sibling caregiving, which, in turn, was positively associated with personal accountability.We conducted multigroup path analysis based on gender and found no gender differences.Findings highlight howsibling caregiving can be linked to responsibility during young adulthood.

Objectives
-- To examine how familism values are associated with sibling caregiving.
-- To examine the association between familism values, and sibling caregiving and, in turn, responsibility among Latina/o/x young adults.
-- To examine gender differences among these associations.

Subject Codes: caregiving, family relations
Population Codes: siblings, emerging/young adulthood, Hispanic/Latina/o/x
Method and Approach Codes: path analysis, quantitative methodology

Facilitator: Azucena Verdin