Mexican-origin family members’ unique and shared family perspectives of familism values and their links with parent-youth relationship quality.

We examined profiles of sibling relationship qualities in 246 Mexican-origin families living in the United States using latent profile analyses. Three profiles were identified: Positive, Negative, and Affect-Intense. Links between profiles and youths’ familism values and adjustment were assessed using longitudinal data. Siblings in the Positive profile reported the highest familism values, followed by siblings in the Affect-Intense profile and, finally, siblings in the Negative profile. Older siblings in the Positive and Affect-Intense profiles reported fewer depressive symptoms than siblings in the Negative profile. Further, in the Positive and Negative profiles, older siblings reported less involvement in risky behaviors than younger siblings. In the Negative profile, younger siblings reported greater sexual risk behaviors in late adolescence than older siblings; siblings in opposite-sex dyads, as compared to same-sex dyads, engaged in riskier sexual behaviors. Our findings highlight sibling relationship quality as promotive and risky, depending on sibling characteristics and adjustment outcomes.

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Closeting and the Quality of Lesbian Relationships

Families in Society The Journal of Contemporary Social Services ◽

10.1606/1044-3894.799 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 78 (4) ◽

pp. 413-419 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Sandra L. Caron ◽

Marjorie Ulin

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Family Members ◽

Couple Relationship ◽

Future Studies ◽

Lesbian Relationships ◽

Multiple Measures

Analysis of data collected from 124 lesbians currently Involved in a couple relationship indicated that closeting is related to the couple's relationship quality. Openness vs. secrecy with family and friends is most highly associated with the quality of their relationship. Further analyses suggested that particular family behaviors–inviting a member's lesbian partner to family events and accepting demonstrations of affection between the couple–can influence their relationship. These findings underscore the importance of support from family members and indicate the need for future studies to include multiple measures of closeting.

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Coparenting Profiles in the Context of Mexican-Origin Teen Pregnancy: Links to Mother-Daughter Relationship Quality and Adjustment

Family Process ◽

10.1111/famp.12115 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 263-279 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Norma J. Perez-Brena ◽

Kimberly A. Updegraff ◽

Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor ◽

Laudan Jahromi ◽

Amy Guimond

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Teen Pregnancy ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Mother Daughter Relationship

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When Politics and Family Collide: A Two-Wave Prospective Study

10.31234/osf.io/8uetg ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christian Chan ◽

Jenny W. S. Wong ◽

Cyanea Y. S. Poon

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Family Members ◽

Political Attitude ◽

Political Movements ◽

Political Issues ◽

The Impact

What happens when family members disagree on politics? This prospective study examined the impact of incongruence in political attitude about political issues on familial conflicts, and vice versa. We tested relationship quality as a protective moderator. We used Hong Kong’s recent political movements as the context and asked participants about their conflict with their parent. Data were collected from 185 young adults who co-reside with at least one parent or guardian (69.7% female, mean age = 21.3) in May (T1) and June (T2), 2015. Results suggest that the likelihood and seriousness of conflicts arising from political issues at T2 were predicted by T1 political attitude congruence and T1 relationship quality. Moderation analyses revealed that youths with lower political attitude congruence and lower relationship quality had more, and more serious, conflicts at T2. Results also suggest that the frequency of conflict led to a decrease in political attitude congruence.

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Economic hardship and Mexican-origin adolescents’ adjustment: Examining adolescents’ perceptions of hardship and parent–adolescent relationship quality.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0033737 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 27 (5) ◽

pp. 827-837 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Melissa Y. Delgado ◽

Sarah E. Killoren ◽

Kimberly A. Updegraff

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Economic Hardship ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Adolescent Relationship

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Familism Values, Family Time, and Mexican-Origin Young Adults' Depressive Symptoms

Journal of Marriage and Family ◽

10.1111/jomf.12248 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 91-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Katharine H. Zeiders ◽

Kimberly A. Updegraff ◽

Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor ◽

Susan M. McHale ◽

Jenny Padilla

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Family Time ◽

Familism Values

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Familism values across the transition to adolescent motherhood: Links to family functioning and Mexican-origin adolescent mothers’ adjustment

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579418000986 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (5) ◽

pp. 1589-1609 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kimberly A. Updegraff ◽

Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor ◽

Katharine H. Zeiders ◽

Diamond Y. Bravo ◽

Laudan B. Jahromi

Keyword(s):

Youth Development ◽

Adolescent Mothers ◽

Psychosocial Adjustment ◽

Family Relationship ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Adolescent Mother ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Adolescent Motherhood ◽

Mother Figures ◽

Familism Values

AbstractFamilism values are conceptualized as a key source of resilience for Latino adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment. The current study addressed the developmental progression and correlates of familism within the context of the transition to adolescent motherhood. Participants were 191 Mexican-origin pregnant adolescents (15 to 18 years of age at first pregnancy; Mage = 16.76 years; SD = 0.98) who were having their first child. Adolescents completed interviews during their third trimester of pregnancy and annually for 5 years after (Waves 1 through 6). We examined changes in familism values across the transition to adolescent motherhood and the moderating role of age at pregnancy. Moderation analyses revealed differences in familism trajectories for younger versus older adolescents. We also examined whether familism values were related to family relationship dynamics (i.e., adolescents’ relationships with their own mother figures) and adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment, respectively, using multilevel models to test both between-person and within-person associations. Adolescents’ stronger familism values were related to adolescent–mother figure warmth and conflict, coparenting communication, and three dimensions of social support from mother figures, but no associations emerged for coparental conflict, adolescents’ depressive symptoms, or self-esteem. Discussion addresses these findings in the context of culturally grounded models of ethnic–racial minority youth development and psychopathology.

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Parent-Adolescent Interactions and Substance Use: A Prospective, Observational Study of Mexican Origin Families

10.31234/osf.io/a3fv6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

D. Angus Clark ◽

Brent Donnellan ◽

Richard Robins

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Prospective Observational Study ◽

Adolescent Substance Use ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Adolescent Substance ◽

12Th Grade ◽

Mexican Origin Youth ◽

Adolescent Relationship

Parent-adolescent relationship quality is a predictor of adolescent substance use. However, most research in this area has relied on questionnaire based assessments of both substance use and interpersonal family dynamics. Furthermore, prior work has typically focused on European American samples. These gaps are addressed in the current study via the evaluation of the prospective associations between observed parent-adolescent interactions in 7th grade, and substance use in 9th and 12th grade, in a longitudinal sample of Mexican-origin youth (N = 674). Adolescents’ observed behaviors towards parents were weakly but significantly predictive of future substance use, especially observed hostility. Results add to the literature suggesting that family processes are relevant in the development of substance use, and offer converging evidence regarding the role of early aggressive tendencies and later substance use.

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Mothers’ Health and Relationships With Adult Children: The Moderating Role of Gender and Race

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1670 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 517-518

Author(s):

Catherine Stepniak ◽

J Jill Suitor ◽

Megan Gilligan

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Adult Children ◽

Functional Limitations ◽

Family Members ◽

Well Being ◽

Intergenerational Relationship ◽

Gender And Race ◽

Race And Gender ◽

And Gender

Abstract Consistent with theories of the life course and intergenerational solidarity, families are generally closely tied groups in which one family member’s event affects other members as well. Although the literature has documented that parents and adult children affect one another’s well-being, less is known about how parents’ health shapes relationship quality between family members. In this paper, we utilize data from the Within-Family Difference Study (WFDS) II to explore how mothers’ functional limitations affect relationship quality between mothers and their adult children, as reported by both family members. We hypothesized that the association between mothers’ health and intergenerational relationship quality would be moderated by gender and race. Using multi-level regression modeling, we found that mothers’ reports of relationship quality were not predicted by the presence of mothers’ functional limitations, nor were there any moderating effects of race or gender. In contrast, adult children who perceived that their mothers had limitations reported higher tension with them. Further, daughters were more likely than sons to report greater tension when they perceived that their mothers had limitations (differences between coefficients p < .10). White adult children reported lower levels of closeness and higher levels of tension when they perceived that their mothers had health limitations (differences between coefficients p < .05; p < .10 respectively). However, limitations did not predict Black children’s reports of closeness or conflict with mothers. This study sheds new light on the complex ways in which race and gender moderate the role of mothers’ limitations in intergenerational relationship quality.

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