TY - JOUR
T1 - Mother-daughter conflict and adjustment in Mexican-origin families
T2 - Exploring the role of family and sociocultural context
AU - Updegraff, Kimberly
AU - Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.
AU - Perez-Brena, Norma J.
AU - Pflieger, Jacqueline
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1002/cd.20004
DO - 10.1002/cd.20004
M3 - Article
C2 - 22407882
AN - SCOPUS:84861420386
SN - 1520-3247
VL - 2012
SP - 59
EP - 81
JO - New directions for child and adolescent development
JF - New directions for child and adolescent development
IS - 135
ER -