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Problem Behavior and Acculturation in Moroccan Immigrant Adolescents in the Netherlands

Effects of Gender and Parent-Child Conflict

Gonneke W.J.M. Stevens

Erasmus MC/Sophia, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Wilma A.M. Vollebergh

University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, Trimbos Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Trees V.M. Pels

Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Alfons A.M. Crijnen

Erasmus MC/Sophia, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The gender specificity of the relation between acculturation and problem behavior in Moroccan immigrant adolescents in the Netherlands was examined. Three previously identified classes of adolescents with similar patterns of acculturation were used: an integrated, separated, and ambivalent class. Girls with an ambivalent acculturation pattern showed more problems than the other girls on parent- and adolescent-reported internalizing and externalizing behavior. For boys, no effects of acculturation on problem behavior were found. The high number of conflicts between parents and their ambivalently acculturated daughters partly explained the relation between acculturation and problem behavior. The findings emphasized that gender and parent—child conflict should be considered when attempting to understand the complex relation between acculturation and problem behavior.

Key Words: internalizing and externalizing problems • acculturation • adolescents • Moroccans

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 3, 310-317 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022107300277
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