title: Gender role attitudes across the transition to adolescent motherhood in Mexican-origin families.
abstract: Using longitudinal data collected at four time points from 191 dyads of Mexican-origin adolescent first-time mothers and their mother figures, we examined changes in and socialization of traditional gender role attitudes across the transition to parenthood using latent growth curve modeling and actor-partner interdependence modeling. Longitudinal growth models indicated that, regardless of nativity status, adolescent mothers' and their foreign-born mother figures' gender role attitudes became more egalitarian across adolescents' transition to parenthood, spanning from the 3rd trimester of pregnancy to 36 months postpartum. Furthermore, actor-partner interdependence modeling suggested that adolescents' and their mother figures' gender role attitudes during adolescents' third trimester of pregnancy equally contributed to subsequent increases in one another's gender role attitudes at 10 months postpartum. Importantly, this reciprocal socialization process was not moderated by adolescent mothers' nor by their mother figures' nativity status. Findings suggest that it is important to understand the cultural and intergenerational family processes that contribute to the development of gender role attitudes during the transition to parenthood for adolescent mothers and their mother figures in Mexican-origin families.
authors.affiliation: School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
authors.forename: Russell B
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1828-9485
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Toomey
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
authors.forename: Kimberly A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Updegraff
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
authors.forename: Adriana J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Umaña-Taylor
authors.affiliation: Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Laudan B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Jahromi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology*; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000523:psychology*; D012951:Socialization; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling; Adolescent Mothers; Gender Role Attitudes; actitudes de roles de género; madres adolescentes; modelo de interdependencia actor-pareja; 少女妈妈; 性别角色态度; 行动者-搭档相互依靠模型