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Mother–daughter conflict and adjustment in Mexican‐origin families: Exploring the role of family and sociocultural context
Author(s) -
Updegraff Kimberly A.,
UmañaTaylor Adriana J.,
PerezBreorma J.,
Pflieger Jacqueline
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.20004
Subject(s) - sociocultural evolution , psychology , daughter , developmental psychology , context (archaeology) , social psychology , social environment , sociology , evolutionary biology , geography , biology , social science , anthropology , archaeology
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.