Citation

Updegraff KA, Umaña-Taylor AJ, Perez-Brena NJ, Pflieger J. New Dir. Child Adolesc. Dev. 2012; 2012(135): 59-81.

Affiliation

Arizona State University. Kimberly.updegraff@asu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/cd.20004

PMID

22407882

Abstract

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. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: en