Evaluation of Factors that Influence Latino Children's Behavior Assessment System for Children-Second Edition (BASC-2) Externalizing and Internalizing Scores of The Parenting Rating Scale and The Relationship to Future Risk Behavior.
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Some Latino children in the United States experience additional issues that negatively impact their developmental process and outcome. Further, identified environmental factors such as parenting style, maternal education, unskilled occupation of primary caregiver, low socioeconomic status (SES), parental unemployment, family structure, family size, parental mental illness, and parental relationship issues predict maladaptive functioning in Latino children. Despite the great need of mental health care for Latino children in the U.S., a great disparity still exists. This study examined if certain demographic variables, parenting styles, and therapy participation were correlated to the Latino child's externalizing and internalizing composite scores as assessed by the Parenting Rating Scale of the Behavior Assessment System for Children-Second Edition (BASC-2). Two groups of respondents were assessed using the BASC-2 Parent Rating Scale: Parents of children receiving mental health services (n＝ 9) and parents of children not receiving mental health services (n＝ 9). There were more males in the sample (61.1%) than females (38.9%). Half the parents were married and the next most common relationship category was cohabitation (33.3%). More parents had an authoritative parenting style (72.2%) than an authoritarian style (27.8%). Findings of the present study did not support any of the hypotheses but the results did indicate that children with authoritarian parenting tended to have higher internalizing scores and children with authoritative parenting had lower internalizing scores.