title: Maternal Warmth Moderates the Link between Harsh Discipline and Later Externalizing Behaviors for Mexican American Adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined maternal warmth as a moderator of the relation between harsh discipline practices and adolescent externalizing problems 1year later in low-income, Mexican American families.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 189 adolescents and their mothers who comprised the control group of a longitudinal intervention program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Maternal warmth protected adolescents from the negative effects of harsh discipline such that, at higher levels of maternal warmth, there was no relation between harsh discipline and externalizing problems after controlling for baseline levels of externalizing problems and other covariates. At lower levels of maternal warmth, there was a positive relation between harsh discipline practices and later externalizing problems.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To understand the role of harsh discipline in the development of Mexican American youth outcomes, researchers must consider contextual variables that may affect youths' perceptions of their parents' behavior such as maternal warmth.
authors.affiliation: Montefiore Medical Center, 3444 Kossuth Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467.
authors.forename: Miguelina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Germán
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Gonzales
authors.forename: Darya Bonds
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: McClain
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dumka
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Millsap
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