Bi-Cultural Competence and Academic Resilience Among Immigrants (New Americans)

Vargas-Reighley examines the relationship among bicultural competence, stress and coping processes, adaptive processes, and academic resilience. Participants were Latina/o and Southeast Asian youth from two high schools in California. The Latina/o group was more likely to experience greater family stress, including greater parental marital dysfunction, more severe stressors, and greater stress ratings. The Southeast Asians were more likely to be of lower socioeconomic status, but more likely to show higher academic goals and achievement. Results indicate that bicultural competence was related to greater self-esteem, social support coping and coping efficacy in the familial stressful situation, and direct action coping and coping efficacy in the academic stressful situation. Bicultural competence does appear to be related to adaptive outcomes. "The New Americans explores recent immigration and related changes in American society from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, education, history, political science, psychology, economics, and law. Together the books help us to understand how immigration is changing the United States."--Jacket The relationship of bicultural competence and academic resilience The value of academic resilience The construction of bicultural competence Stress, coping, and context Cross cultural research Between group comparisons Results Toward a model of drop-out intervention.