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Mexican A merican Adolescents' Emotional Support to the Family in Response to Parental Stress
Author(s) -
Tsai Kim M.,
Gonzales Nancy A.,
Fuligni Andrew J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12216
Subject(s) - psychology , stressor , feeling , emotional support , developmental psychology , distress , emotional distress , longitudinal study , clinical psychology , social support , social psychology , anxiety , psychiatry , medicine , pathology
In this two‐wave longitudinal, daily diary study that followed up with 421 M exican A merican parent–adolescent dyads (adolescents: M age = 15 years, 50% males) after 1 year, we investigated the contingency between parental stressors and adolescents' emotional support to family members. Adolescents provided support to their parents and other family members at similar rates, but adolescents were more likely to provide support to other family members than to their parents on days when parents experienced a family stressor. This pattern was especially pronounced in families with parents who reported physical symptoms and adolescents with a strong sense of family obligation. Adolescents' provision of emotional support was associated with same‐day feelings of role fulfillment, but not to their concurrent or long‐term psychological distress.