Daily hassles, mother-child relationship, and behavior problems in Muslim Arab American adolescents in immigrant families.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This longitudinal study examines reciprocal and dynamic relations among daily hassles, the mother-child relationship, and adolescent behavior problems and whether the relations differed by sociodemographic variables.

Method

Three waves of data about adolescent daily hassles, quality of the mother-child relationship, and adolescent behavior problems were collected from 454 Arab Muslim adolescents and their immigrant mothers over a 3-year period. Cross-lagged structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine reciprocal relations among the study variables.

Results

Relations between the mother-child relationship and adolescent behavior problems were reciprocal, with a poor mother-child relationship contributing to greater behavior problems and behavior prob

SUBMITTER: Aroian KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5053834 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature