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ix Figures 1.1. Immigrants Obtaining Permanent Legal Resident Status, 1820–2008 4 1.2. Acculturation Criteria and Theoretical Frameworks 14 1.3. The Acculturation Cycle and Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) 25 1.4. Developmental Model of Bicultural Identity Integration (BII) 27 2.1. Elena’s Cultural Map 30 2.2. Immigrant Family System Enculturation and Adjustment after Immigration 32 2.3. Arturo’s Cultural Map 35 2.4. Adolescent Self-Esteem by Culture-of-Origin Involvement (LAHP: N = 323) 55 3.1. Manuel’s Cultural Map 59 3.2. How Assimilation Mechanisms Impact Immigrant Families 62 3.3. Nohemi’s Cultural Map 63 3.4. Jaime’s Cultural Map 65 3.5. Maria Dolores’s Cultural Map 78 4.1. Juana’s Cultural Map 101 4.2. Biculturalism Scores from LAHP for Latino Immigrant Families (N = 323) 105 4.3. Cultural Involvement and Adolescent Mental Health 128 5.1. Acculturation Theories and Major Research Findings 132 5.2. Acculturation and Mental Health 133 5.3. Adolescent Aggressive Behavior by Parent-Adolescent Conflict 144 5.4. Pathways from Acculturation Stress to Adolescent Aggression 145 5.5. Pathways from Acculturation Stress to Subsequent Internalizing Problems and Self-Esteem 157 5.6. Lifetime Prevalence of Any Psychiatric Disorder by Nativity and Race/Ethnicity 158 6.1. Why Is the First Fish Swimming in Front of the Other Fish? 171 7.1. Entre Dos Mundos: Conceptual Model 193 7.2. Circular Model of Bicultural Development 196 ...

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