There is a burgeoning literature on autonomy-supportive parenting and positive adaptation in youth across diverse cultures, but little is known about autonomy support in immigrant families. Bolstering autonomy in immigrant youth may be particularly important for their success on both universal and immigrant-specific developmental tasks and yet studies examining autonomy support in immigrant adolescents are rare. In the current study, the first goal was to establish measurement equivalence for a widely-used autonomy support measure in immigrant and non-immigrant youth. Subsequently, we examined how changes in autonomy support during early adolescence varied by immigrant status. The sample included 1252 immigrant and non-immigrant youth (M_age = 12.70 at Wave 1) living in Greece who completed a self-report measure of maternal autonomy support in their schools once per year for three years. Results indicated that the latent construct, factor loadings, and item thresholds of the autonomy support measure were invariant across immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents, as well as over time. Neither group displayed significant growth in autonomy support and, counter to expectation, trajectories of autonomy support did not differ by immigrant status. These findings demonstrate that autonomy support is a meaningful construct in Greek native and immigrant families and also indicate that these behaviors, as perceived by youth, were stable during early to middle adolescence for immigrant and non-immigrant youth living in Greece.

关于支持自主育儿和青年在各种文化中积极适应的新兴文献不断涌现，但对移民家庭的自主支持知之甚少。增强移民青年的自主权对于他们在普遍和针对特定移民的发展任务上的成功可能尤为重要，然而，研究检查青少年移民自主性的研究却很少。在当前的研究中，第一个目标是为在移民和非移民青年中广泛使用的自治支持措施建立测量等值。随后，我们研究了青春期早期自治支持的变化如何随移民身份的变化而变化。样本包括1252名移民和非移民青年（M_年龄 =在第1浪中为12.70）生活在希腊，他们在三年中每年完成一次自我报告，评估他们在学校中的产妇自主性支持情况。结果表明，自治支持措施的潜在构成，因素负荷和项目阈值在移民和非移民青少年之间以及随着时间的推移都是不变的。两组均未显示出自主支持的显着增长，并且与预期相反，自主支持的轨迹因移民身份而没有不同。这些发现表明，自主支持在希腊的土著和移民家庭中是一个有意义的建构，并且还表明，青年所知，这些行为对于居住在希腊的移民和非移民青年在青春期早期至中期是稳定的。