Screening parent-adolescent relationships, screen behaviors, tridimensional acculturation, and health among Black immigrant and refugee adolescents during dual pandemics.

This brief report assesses parent-adolescent relationships, screen behaviors, and tridimensional acculturation as risk and promotive or protective factors for health among Black U.S. immigrant or refugee adolescents during the dual COVID-19 and racism or Whiteness pandemics. Eighty-nine immigrant- or refugee-origin adolescents completed online surveys (72% Somali American, 28% Jamaican American; 45% female; 15% foreign-born; M = 14.11 years). Regression analyses revealed that parental autonomy support, parental restrictive media mediation, and adolescent heritage culture identification were promotive of better screen media use behaviors. Only adolescent media literacy self-efficacy was related to higher screen time. Importantly, screen self-regulation was a better predictor of general health than screen time. Results highlight many parenting strengths in Black immigrant or refugee families and underscore the resilience-promoting power of parent-adolescent relationships. Health implications are discussed to provide guidance for future prevention efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.

The capacity to conduct psychology research online has expanded more quickly than have ethics guidelines for digital research. We argue that researchers must proactively plan ways to engage ethically in online psychological research with vulnerable groups, including marginalized and immigrant youth and families. To that end, this article describes the ethical use of internet and cell phone technologies in psychological research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families, which demands efforts to both deepen and extend the Belmont principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. We describe and apply four research frameworks-community-based participatory research, transdisciplinary team science, representational ethics, and cross-cultural psychology-that can be integrated to offer practical solutions to ethical challenges in digital research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families. Then, as an illustration, we provide a case example of this approach using the Food, Culture, and Health Study conducted with Black Jamaican American and Somali American youth and families, who experience tridimensional acculturation due to their race and have been disproportionately impacted by the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism/Whiteness. We offer this article as a road map for other researchers seeking to conduct ethical digital community-based psychological research with Black immigrant youth and families and other marginalized communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

O processo interativo mãe-bebê pré-termo / The interactive process in the preterm baby and his mother

Esse estudo avalia a interação mãe-bebê pré-termo e os sinais de desenvolvimento do vínculo afetivo, no ambiente hospitalar. A amostra foi composta por nove bebês, de ambos os sexos, nascidos entre 28 e 36 semanas de idade gestacional, sem síndromes ou malformações, e suas respectivas mães. Os instrumentos utilizados foram o prontuário médico e os protocolos da história clínica do bebê e das observações dos encontros das díades. Os dados foram analisados quanto ao percentual de ocorrências e quanto à análise qualitativa dessas atividades. Os resultados revelam que as trocas nas interações da díade mãe/bebê foram adequadas em 55,5 nas categorias corporal e vocal, e em 44,4 nas categorias visual e facial. Esses resultados sugerem que é nas trocas do bebê com o cuidador, em sua postura corporal, na modulação da linguagem, no contato visual e em suas expressões faciais que reverberam condutas e respostas nele e em seus pais(AU)

The aim of this study was to assess the mother-pre term baby interactions and the signals of the affective bond development in the hospital environment. The sample comprehends nine babies, of both sexes, born between twenty-eight and thirty-six weeks of gestational age, free of complications such as syndromes or malformations and their respective mothers. The instruments used were the medical records and the protocols of the baby's clinical history and of the mother-baby's observations. The data was analyzed in terms of percentage of occurrences and regarding the quantitative analysis of these activities. The results indicated that the exchanges in the interactions between mother and baby were adequate in 55,5 of the corporal and vocal categories and 44,4 of the visual and facial categories. These results suggest that in the exchanges between the baby and the carer, in his/her posture, in the language modes, in the visual contact and in the facial expressions that the behavior and responses in the baby and his/her parents are reflected(AU)