Open AccessThe father’s role in risk and resilience among Mexican-American adolescents.
Author(s) -
Jaimie L. O’Gara,
Esther J. Calzada,
Su Yeong Kim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of orthopsychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.959
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1939-0025
pISSN - 0002-9432
DOI - 10.1037/ort0000394
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , hostility , alienation , psycinfo , psychology , psychological resilience , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , social alienation , poison control , social psychology , clinical psychology , medline , medicine , political science , medical emergency , statistics , mathematics , law
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) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).