title: Mothers, Fathers, Peers, and Mexican-Origin Adolescents' Sexual Intentions.
abstract: Drawing on a symbolic-interaction perspective and a compensation model, the processes linking mother-and father-adolescent relationship qualities, deviant peer affiliations, and adolescents' sexual intentions were investigated for 246 Mexican-origin youths born in the United States and in Mexico using multiple-group structural equation models. Deviant peer affiliations significantly mediated the relations between paternal acceptance and sexual intentions and between disclosure to mothers and sexual intentions for U.S.-born youths but not for Mexico-born youths. Findings highlight the importance of examining variability as a function of youth nativity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, 412 Behavioral Science Building, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1570.
authors.forename: Sarah E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Killoren
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Updegraff
authors.forename: F Scott
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Christopher
authors.forename: Adriana J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Umaña-Taylor