Are Ethnic Minority Adolescents at Risk for Problem Behaviour? Acculturation and Intergenerational Acculturation Discrepancies in Early Adolescence

The present study investigated the adjustment of Indian adolescents living in Britain as well as the links between parents’ and adolescents’ acculturation styles and the adolescents’ problem behaviours. The findings highlight the importance of examining not only parental acculturation style, but also the parent???child acculturation discrepancy as a risk factor for problem behaviour. (Description from source).