Citation

O'Gara JL, Calzada EJ, Kim SY. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/ort0000394

PMID

30628806

Abstract

Research suggests fathers are important to adolescent well-being, yet there is limited information regarding how fathering is associated with adolescent risk and resilience in Mexican American families. This cross-sectional study utilized a structural equation model to examine whether parent-child alienation mediated the relations between parental displays of warmth and hostility and the outcomes of adolescent resilience and delinquency in Mexican American families (N = 272).

RESULTS indicated that adolescent-perceived alienation from parents was a significant predictor of both resilience and delinquency. Additionally, alienation mediated the relations between father warmth and resilience and father warmth and delinquency, as well as the relations between mother hostility and adolescent outcomes. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Language: en