title: Work and Mexican American parent-adolescent relationships: the mediating role of parent well-being.
abstract: This study of Mexican American two-parent families (N = 246) examined the role of parents' well-being (i.e., depressive symptoms, role overload) as a potential mechanism through which parent occupational conditions (i.e., self-direction, hazardous conditions, physical activity, work pressure) are linked to parent-adolescent relationship qualities (i.e., warmth, conflict, disclosure). Depressive symptoms mediated the links between maternal and paternal work pressure and parent-adolescent warmth, conflict, and disclosure. For mothers, depressive symptoms also mediated the links between self-direction and mother-adolescent warmth, conflict, and disclosure; for fathers, role overload mediated the links between work pressure and hazardous conditions with father-adolescent warmth.
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-3701, USA. lorey@asu.edu
authors.forename: Lorey A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Wheeler
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Updegraff
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Crouter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015206:Southwestern United States; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*