Young Adolescents' Experiences with Parents and Friends: Exploring the Connections<sup>*</sup>

Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Madden-Derdich, Debra A.; Estrada, Ana Ulloa; Sales, Lara J.; Leonard, Stacie A.

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2002.00072.x

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“…A sample item is “How much do you go to (friend name) for advice or support?” Answers ranged on a five-point scale from “Not at all” to “Very much,” with higher scores representing more intimate friendships. This measure has demonstrated adequate reliability and validity for Mexican American youth (Updegraff et al 2002); alphas for the present study were .84 and .85 for younger and older adolescents, respectively.…”

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Conflict Resolution in Mexican American Adolescents’ Friendships: Links with Culture, Gender and Friendship Quality

Thayer

Updegraff

Delgado

2007

J Youth Adolescence

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This study was designed to describe the conflict resolution practices used in Mexican American adolescents' friendships, to explore the role of cultural orientations and values and gender-typed personality qualities in conflict resolution use, and to assess the connections between conflict resolution and friendship quality. Participants were 246 Mexican American adolescents (M = 12.77 years of age) and their older siblings (M = 15.70 years of age). Results indicated that adolescents used solution-oriented strategies most frequently, followed by nonconfrontation and control strategies. Girls were more likely than boys to use solution-oriented strategies and less likely to use control strategies. Familistic values and gender-typed personality qualities were associated with solution-oriented conflict resolution strategies. Finally, conflict resolution strategies were related to overall friendship quality: solution-oriented strategies were positively linked to intimacy and negatively associated with friendship negativity, whereas nonconfrontation and control strategies were associated with greater relationship negativity.

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Conflict Resolution in Mexican American Adolescents’ Friendships: Links with Culture, Gender and Friendship Quality

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Updegraff

Delgado

2007

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“…Higher scores indicated higher friendship intimacy. The psychometric properties of this measure have been documented with Mexican American youth (Updegraff, Madden-Derdich, Estrada, Haase, & Leonard, 2002). Cronbach’s alphas were .84, 89, and .84 for T1 – T3, respectively.…”

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Emotional Closeness in Mexican-Origin Adolescents’ Relationships with Mothers, Fathers, and Same-Sex Friends

Rodriguez

Perez‐Brena

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J Youth Adolescence

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Research on the associations between parent-adolescent relationships and friendships among Latinos is limited. Drawing on developmental and ecological perspectives, we examined bidirectional associations between parental warmth and friendship intimacy with same-sex peers from early to late adolescence using a longitudinal cross-lag panel design. Parent-adolescent immigration status and adolescent gender were examined as moderators of these associations. Home interviews were conducted with 246 Mexican American adolescents (51% female) when they were in early (M = 12.55; SD = .60 years), middle (M = 14.64; SD = .59 years), and late adolescence (M = 17.67; SD = .57 years). Modest declines in paternal warmth were evident from early to late adolescence, but maternal warmth was high and stable across this time period. Girls’ intimacy with same-sex friends also was high and stable from early to late adolescence, but boys’ intimacy with same-sex friends increased over this time period. In general, findings revealed that adolescents’ perceptions of parents’ warmth in early adolescence were associated positively with friendship intimacy in middle adolescence, and friendship intimacy in middle adolescence was associated positively with parental warmth in late adolescence. Some associations were moderated by adolescent gender and parent-adolescent immigration status. For example, there was an association from maternal warmth in early adolescence to friendship intimacy in late adolescence only for immigrant youth. These findings suggest that among Mexican American adolescents, their relationships with their mothers, fathers, and same-sex friends are intertwined closely and that gender and immigration status shape some of these associations during adolescence.

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“…Although Latinos may experience greater conflict with parents because of the acculturation experience, Latino adolescents’ connections with family are more important than those with peers (Updegraff, Madden-Derdich, Estrada, Sales, & Leonard, 2002). Examining interpersonal transactions between suicide attempters and their environments, especially parents, can give important insights into the course of suicidal thinking and behavior (Davila & Daley, 2000).…”

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Acculturation, Familism and Mother–Daughter Relations Among Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Adolescent Latinas

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We examined the role of acculturation, familism and Latina mother-daughter relations in suicide attempts by comparing 65 adolescents with recent suicide attempts and their mothers to 75 teens without any attempts and their mothers. Attempters and non-attempters were similar in acculturation and familistic attitudes but attempters report significantly less mutuality and communication with their mothers than non-attempters. Mothers of attempters reported lower mutuality and communication with their daughters than mothers of non-attempters. Small increments in mutuality decreased the probability of a suicide attempt by 57%. Acculturation and familism do not appear to play major roles in suicide attempts but relational factors may. Instituting school-based psychoeducational groups for young Latinas, particularly in middle school, and their parents, separately and jointly, and focusing on raising effective communication and mutuality between parents and adolescent daughters are important primary prevention strategies. KeywordsLatina/Hispanic adolescents; acculturation; suicide attempts; familism; mother-daughter relations Acculturation among Latino 1 youth has garnered considerable attention in the behavioral and social science literature. Research has associated acculturation with both positive and negative behavioral outcomes (Brayr, Getz, & McQueen, 2003;Ebin, Sneed, Morisky, Rotheram-Borus, Magnusson, & Malotte, 2001;Samaniego & Gonzalez, 1999;Smokowski & Bacallao, 2007). Among Latino youth, symptoms of depression have been directly associated with bicultural stress, particularly with lower levels of acculturation (Mikolajczyk, Bredehorst, Khelaifat, Maier, & Maxwell, 2007;Romero, Carvajal, Volle, & Orduña, 2007). Hovey and King (1996) assert that a quarter of immigrant and second-generation Latino adolescents report levels of depression and suicidal ideation that are positively correlated with acculturative stress.In families, acculturation discrepancies between adolescents Latinos and their parents are well documented (Fuligni, 2004;Phinney & Vedder, 2006). It has long been found that acculturation differences generate conflicts between adolescents and their parents, usually arising from a higher, more rapid acculturation among children and slower, lower acculturation by parents (Smokowski & Bacallao, 2007). Thus, for instance, substance abuse (Martinez, 2006), conduct disorder (Bird, Canino, Loeber, Duarte, Shrout, Davies, & Shen, 2007), dating violence Correspondence should be sent to Luis H. Zayas, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130-4899. E-mail to E-mail: lzayas@wustl.edu. 1 We use the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" interchangeably in this paper (see Lopez & Minushkin, 2008, p. iv, for Pew Hispanic Center, Washington, D.C. usage). NIH Public AccessAuthor Manuscript J Prim Prev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 December 1. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript (Hokoda, Galvan, Malcarne, Castañed...

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Young Adolescents' Experiences with Parents and Friends: Exploring the Connections^*

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

Conflict Resolution in Mexican American Adolescents’ Friendships: Links with Culture, Gender and Friendship Quality

Conflict Resolution in Mexican American Adolescents’ Friendships: Links with Culture, Gender and Friendship Quality

Emotional Closeness in Mexican-Origin Adolescents’ Relationships with Mothers, Fathers, and Same-Sex Friends

Acculturation, Familism and Mother–Daughter Relations Among Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Adolescent Latinas

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Conflict Resolution in Mexican American Adolescents’ Friendships: Links with Culture, Gender and Friendship Quality

Conflict Resolution in Mexican American Adolescents’ Friendships: Links with Culture, Gender and Friendship Quality

Emotional Closeness in Mexican-Origin Adolescents’ Relationships with Mothers, Fathers, and Same-Sex Friends

Acculturation, Familism and Mother–Daughter Relations Among Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Adolescent Latinas

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