Longitudinal and integrative tests of family stress model effects on Mexican origin adolescents.

ABSTRACT: The family stress model represents a common framework through which to examine the effects of environmental stressors on adolescent adjustment. The model suggests that economic and neighborhood stressors influence youth adjustment via disruptions to parenting. Incorporating integrative developmental theory, we examined the degree to which parents' cultural value orientations mitigated the effects of stressors on parenting disruptions and the degree to which environmental adversity qualified the effect of parenting on adolescent adjustment. We tested the hypothesized integrative family stress model longitudinally in a sample of mother-youth dyads (N = 749) and father-youth dyads (N = 467) from Mexican origin families, across 3 times points spanning early to middle adolescence. Providing the

SUBMITTER: White RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4412805 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature