5 results on '"Lester Sim"'
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2. Family Environment, Heritage Language Profiles, and Socioemotional Well-being of Mexican-origin Adolescents with First Generation Immigrant Parents
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Jun Wang, Wen Wen, Lester Sim, Xin Li, Jinjin Yan, and Su Yeong Kim
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Male ,Parents ,Adolescent ,Social Psychology ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,Article ,Education ,Mexican Americans ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Female ,Mexico ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Language - Abstract
Although Mexican-origin youth with first-generation immigrant parents are relatively good at retaining their heritage language of Spanish, limited research has been conducted on their Spanish language development during adolescence. From three-wave longitudinal data across six years (N(wave1) = 604, M(age.wave1) = 12.91, 54% female), distinct groups of adolescents with consistently high, improved, declined, and consistently low Spanish proficiencies were identified. Family relationship quality was more predictive of adolescents’ Spanish proficiency than family language environment. The benefits of Spanish proficiency were consistent across adolescents’ ethnic identity, resilience, and life meaning. More research and practical attention to parent-adolescent relationships is needed to capitalize on the continued plasticity of adolescents’ Spanish language development and to promote consequent positive outcomes.
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- 2022
3. Parenting and Centrality: The Role of Life Meaning as a Mediator for Parenting and Language Broker Role Identity
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Minyu Zhang, Lester Sim, Su Yeoung Kim, and Yishan Shen
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Male ,Adolescent ,Social Psychology ,Ethnic group ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,050109 social psychology ,Hostility ,Article ,Structural equation modeling ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,Child Rearing ,Phenomenon ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Parent-Child Relations ,Child ,Association (psychology) ,Language ,Parenting ,Social Identification ,05 social sciences ,Translating ,Legal psychology ,Health psychology ,Adolescent Behavior ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Meaning (linguistics) - Abstract
Language brokering is a prevalent phenomenon in ethnic minority immigrant populations. Although accruing evidence points to the beneficial impacts of healthy role identity development, research investigating the formation of a language broker role identity in language brokering adolescents is lacking in the literature. In a sample of 604 Latinx adolescents (54.3% female; M(age) at Time 1 = 12.41, SD = .97), structured equation modeling was conducted with maternal warmth and hostility examined as antecedents and adolescents’ life meaning as a mediator for language broker role identities. Results revealed that life meaning mediated the positive association from maternal warmth to language broker role identity. However, the negative association from maternal hostility to language broker role identity was no longer significant when accounting for maternal warmth. Corroborating extant findings, reciprocal relations were observed between maternal parenting practices, life meaning and language broker role identity. The results attest to the importance of investigating culturally specific role identity development in immigrant populations and demonstrates the role of maternal parenting practices in affecting adolescents’ role identity formation, albeit with contrasting gender effects.
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- 2018
4. Changes in prenatal testosterone and sexual desire in expectant couples
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Robin S. Edelstein, Britney M. Wardecker, William J. Chopik, and Lester Sim
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Adult ,Male ,Parents ,Libido ,Sexual Behavior ,Gestational Age ,Developmental psychology ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Endocrinology ,Pregnancy ,medicine ,Humans ,Testosterone ,Mating ,Saliva ,Family Characteristics ,Endocrine and Autonomic Systems ,Testosterone (patch) ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Expectant mothers ,Sexual desire ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Sexual Partners ,behavior and behavior mechanisms ,Female ,sense organs ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
During the transition to parenthood (TTP), both women and men report declines in sexual desire, which are thought to reflect an evolutionarily adaptive focus on parenting over mating. New parents also show changes in testosterone, a steroid hormone implicated in both parenting and mating, suggesting that changes in sexual desire may be associated with changes in testosterone. To test these associations, we followed a sample of heterosexual couples expecting their first child across the prenatal period. We examined prenatal changes in testosterone and two forms of sexual desire (solitary, dyadic). Expectant mothers showed prenatal increases in testosterone, and women's higher testosterone was associated with lower dyadic desire. Expectant fathers showed prenatal decreases in testosterone, and declines in men's testosterone were associated with lower dyadic desire. Testosterone was unrelated to men's or women's solitary desire. Our findings provide support for the idea that prenatal changes in testosterone contribute to an evolutionarily adaptive focus on parenting over mating during the TTP.
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- 2020
5. Acute Salivary Cortisol Response among Mexican American Adolescents in Immigrant Families
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Su Yeong Kim, Lester Sim, Katharine H. Zeiders, Marci E. J. Gleason, and Minyu Zhang
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Male ,Parents ,Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System ,Sociology and Political Science ,Social Psychology ,Adolescent ,Hydrocortisone ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,PsycINFO ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Perception ,Stress (linguistics) ,Mexican Americans ,Trier social stress test ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Reactivity (psychology) ,Association (psychology) ,Saliva ,media_common ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,Translating ,Texas ,Female ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Stress, Psychological ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
OBJECTIVES Though previous research has indicated that language brokering can be stressful, the findings are mixed, pointing to potential moderators of the association. Guided by an ecological perspective, we examined the role of individual, family, and environmental factors in Mexican American adolescents' acute cortisol responses to language brokering. METHOD The study consisted of 46 Mexican American adolescents recruited around a metropolitan city in Central Texas. Participants translated a difficult medical document from English to Spanish for their parents, followed by an arithmetic task (modeled after the Trier Social Stress Test [TSST]). Participants' perceptions (perceived efficacy and parental dependence), parental hostility, and discrimination experiences were assessed via self-report and were examined as moderators of adolescents' responses to the task. RESULTS Results revealed differential responses to the task based on individual, family, and environmental factors. High efficacy and low dependence-parental hostility-discrimination related to stress responses characterized by low baselines, steeper reactivity, and faster recovery. Low efficacy and high dependence related to greater baseline stress and a slower recovery. High levels of parental hostility related to a slower recovery. High levels of discrimination related to greater baseline stress. CONCLUSIONS The study demonstrates that the modified TSST task can elicit an acute hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response, but the nature of this response is dependent upon participants' perceptions of language brokering (parental dependence and efficacy), parental hostility, and discrimination experiences. Adolescents' individual characteristics and contextual demands remain important considerations in understanding their acute stress responses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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- 2018
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