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Publication Date: 2012
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Mother-Daughter Conflict and Adjustment in Mexican-Origin Families: Exploring the Role of Family and Sociocultural Context
Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Umana-Taylor, Adriana J.; Perez-Brena, Norma J.; Pflieger, Jacqueline
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, n135 p59-81 Spr 2012
This study examined the role of mother-daughter conflict in both mothers' and daughters' adjustment. Drawing from ecologically oriented and person-environment fit models, the authors investigated how the family context, as defined by the transition to adolescent motherhood, and the sociocultural context, as measured by mother-daughter discrepancies in cultural orientations, shaped the associations between conflict and adjustment in Mexican-origin families. Overall, conflict was positively related to mothers' and adolescents' depressive symptoms and adolescents' risky behaviors. This relation was strongest when daughters were more Mexican-oriented than their mothers, and weakest when mothers were more Mexican-oriented than their daughters. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Conflict, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Mexican Americans, Parent Child Relationship, Early Parenthood, Cultural Context, Sociocultural Patterns, Emotional Adjustment, Correlation, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Risk, Cultural Influences
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Language: English
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