Associations among Mexican-origin youth's sibling relationships, familism and positive values, and adjustment problems.

ABSTRACT: Finding ways to protect youth from maladjustment during adolescence and young adulthood is important, and youth of Mexican descent are key targets for such efforts given that they experience higher rates of depressive symptoms, risky behaviors, and sexual risk behaviors compared to youth from other ethnic/racial groups. Using a sample of younger (M_age Time 1 = 12.77 years) and older (M_age Time 1 = 15.70 years) siblings from an 8-year longitudinal study of 246 Mexican-origin families, we conducted path analyses to test whether older siblings' reports of sibling intimacy predicted younger siblings' later positive values and adjustment problems controlling for prior adjustment and maternal and paternal warmth. Additionally, we tested whether younger sibling

SUBMITTER: Killoren SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363190 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature