title: Parentification, substance use, and sex among adolescent daughters from ethnic minority families: the moderating role of monitoring.
abstract: Guided by structural family systems theory, this study explored the relationship between parentification and adolescent daughters' sexual risk engagement and substance use. We also explored how adolescent reports of parental monitoring moderated the relationship between parentification and adolescent risk. Data were from a cross-sectional, cross-generational study of 176 mother-daughter dyads from low-income, inner-city, ethnic minority families. In this sample, which included a subset of mothers with HIV, parental physical symptoms were associated with slightly higher levels of parentification. Parentification was associated with adolescent daughters' intention to have sex (but not substance use) in a direction opposite to prediction. Higher parentification was associated with lower intention to have sex. Parental monitoring did not moderate relationships between parentification and adolescent risk. These findings highlight that despite the negative influence hypothesized in structural family systems theory, parentification was not associated with risk engagement of high-risk adolescent daughters in ethnic minority families with low income.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Jina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sang
authors.forename: Julie A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cederbaum
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hurlburt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016015:Logistic Models; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D016017:Odds Ratio; D016487:Parenting; D011203:Poverty; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012380:Role; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States
keywords: Monitoring; Parentification; Sex Risk; Substance Use
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