title: Mother-daughter conflict and adjustment in Mexican-origin families: exploring the role of family and sociocultural context.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Temple, USA. Kimberly.updegraff@asu.edu
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Updegraff
authors.forename: Adriana J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Umaña-Taylor
authors.forename: Norma J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Perez-Brena
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pflieger
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D012380:Role; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States