Work and Mexican American Parent-Adolescent Relationships: The Mediating Role of Parent Well-Being

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-116

  Wheeler, Lorey A ^a   Updegraff, Kimberly A ^a   Crouter, Ann ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mexican American families; Parent well being; Parent adolescent relationship; Parental occupational conditions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK;

EID: 79952421274     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022440     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Bernstein J. The low-wage labor market: Trends and policy implications. Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children 2004, 3-34. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. A.C. Crouter, A. Booth (Eds.).
2. Collins W.A. Parent-child relationships in the transition to adolescence: Continuity and change in interaction, affect, and cognition. From childhood to adolescence: A transitional period? 1990, 85-106. Sage, Newbury Park, CA. R. Montemayor, G.R. Adams, T.P. Gullotta (Eds.).
3. Conger K.J., Rueter M.A., Conger R.D. The role of economic pressure in the lives of parents and their adolescents: The family stress model. Negotiating adolescence in times of social change 2000, 201-223. Cambridge University Press, New York. L.J. Crockett, R.K. Silbereisen (Eds.).
4. Conger R.D., Patterson G.R., Ge X. It takes two to replicate: A mediational model for the impact of parents' stress on adolescent adjustment. Child Development 1995, 66:80-97. doi: 10.2307/1131192.
5. Cox M.J., Paley B. Understanding families as systems. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2003, 12:193-196. doi: 10.1111/1467-8721.01259.
6. Crouter A.C., Bumpus M.F. Linking parents' work stress to children's and adolescents' psychological adjustment. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2001, 10:156-159. doi: 10.1111/1467-8721.00138.
7. Crouter A.C., Bumpus M.F., Maguire M.C., McHale S.M. Linking parents' work pressure and adolescents' well-being: Insights into dynamics in dual-earner families. Developmental Psychology 1999, 35:1453-1461. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.35.6.1453.
8. Crouter A.C., Davis K.D., Updegraff K., Delgado M., Fortner M. Mexican American fathers' occupational conditions: Links to family members' psychological adjustment. Journal of Marriage and Family 2006, 68:843-858. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00299.x.
9. Crouter A.C., Lanza S.T., Pirretti A., Goodman W.B., Neebe E. The O*Net jobs classification system: A primer for family researchers. Family Relations 2006, 55:461-472. the Family Life Project Key Investigators, doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00415.x.
10. Foster S.L., Martinez C.R. Ethnicity: Conceptual and methodological issues in child clinical research. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 1995, 24:214-226. doi: 10.1207/s15374424jccp2402_9.
11. Galambos N.L., Sears H.A., Almeida D.M., Kolaric G.C. Parents' work overload and problem behavior in young adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence 1995, 5:201-223. doi: 10.1207/s15327795jra0502_3.
12. Goodman W.B., Crouter A.C., Lanza S.T., Cox M.J. Paternal work characteristics and father-infant interactions in low-income, rural families. Journal of Marriage and Family 2008, 70:640-653. the Family Life Project Key Investigators, doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00511.x.
13. Harris V.S. But dad said I could: Within-family differences in parental control in early adolescence. Dissertation Abstracts International 1992, 52:4104.
14. House R.J., Rizzo J.R. Role conflict and ambiguity as critical variables in a model of organizational behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 1972, 7:467-505. doi: 10.1016/0030-5073(72)90030-X.
15. Hovey J.D., Magaña C.G. Exploring the mental health of Mexican migrant farm workers in the Midwest: Psychosocial predictors of psychological distress and suggestions for prevention and treatment. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied 2002, 136:493-513. doi: 10.1080/00223980209605546.
16. Katz M.H., Piotrkowski C.S. Correlates of family role strain among employed black women. Family Relations 1983, 32:331-339. doi: 10.2307/584610.
17. Kohn M.L., Schooler C. The reciprocal effects of the substantive complexity of work and intellectual flexibility: A longitudinal assessment. American Journal of Sociology 1978, 84:24-52. doi: 10.1086/226739.
18. MacDermid S.M., Roy K., Zvonkovic A. Don't stop at the borders: Theorizing beyond dichotomies of work and family. Sourcebook on family theory and research methods 2005, 493-516. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA. V.L. Bengtson, A.C. Acock, K.R. Allen, P. Dilworth-Anderson, D.M. Klein (Eds.).
19. MacKinnon D.P. Introduction to statistical mediation analysis 2008, Taylor & Francis, New York.
20. MacKinnon D.P., Fritz M.S., Williams J., Lockwood C.M. Distribution of the product confidence limits for the indirect effect: Program PRODLIN. Behavior Research Methods 2007, 39:384-389.
21. Moos R.H. Work environment scale manual 1986, Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, CA. 2nd ed.
22. Moos R.H., Moos B.S. Adaptation and the quality of life in work and family settings. Journal of Community Psychology 1983, 11:158-170. doi: 10.1002/1520-6629(198304)11:2::AID-JCOP22901102093.0.CO;2-Z.
23. Mosicicki E.K., Locke B.Z., Raue D.S., Boyd J.H. Depressive symptoms among Mexican Americans: The Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. American Journal of Epidemiology 1989, 130:348-360.
24. Mosisa A.T. The role of foreign-born workers in the U.S. economy. Monthly Labor Review 2002, 125:3-14.
25. Parke R.D., Coltrane S., Duffy S., Buriel R., Dennis J., Powers J., Widaman K.F. Economic stress, parenting, and child adjustment in Mexican American and European American families. Child Development 2004, 75:1632-1656. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00807.x.
26. Perry-Jenkins M., Repetti R.L., Crouter A.C. Work and family in the 1990s. Journal of Marriage and the Family 2000, 62:981-998. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00981.x.
27. Peterson N.G., Mumford M.D., Borman W.C., Jeanneret P.R., Fleishman E.A., Levin K.Y., Dye D.M. Understanding work using the Occupational Information Network (O*Net): Implications for practice and research. Personnel Psychology 2001, 54:451-492. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2001.tb00100.x.
28. Radloff L. The CES-D scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement 1977, 7:385-401. doi: 10.1177/014662167700100306.
29. Raffaelli M., Ontai L.L. Gender socialization in Latino/a families: Results from two retrospective studies. Sex Roles 2004, 50:287-299. doi: 10.1023/B:SERS.0000018886.58945.06.
30. Ransford C.R., Crouter A.C., McHale S.M. Implications of work pressure and supervisor support for fathers', mothers' and adolescents' relationships and well-being in dual-earner families. Community, Work & Family 2008, 11:37-60. doi: 10.1080/13668800701785312.
31. Reilly M.D. Working wives and consumption. Journal of Consumer Research 1982, 8:407-418. doi: 10.1086/208881.
32. Repetti R.L. Linkages between work and family roles. Applied Social Psychology Annual 1987, 7:98-127.
33. Roxburgh S. Gender differences in work and well-being: Effects of exposure and vulnerability. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 1996, 37:265-277. doi: 10.2307/2137296.
34. Schwarz J.C., Barton-Henry L.M., Pruzinsky T. Assessing child-rearing behaviors: A comparison of ratings made by mother, father, child, and sibling on the CRPBI. Child Development 1985, 56:462-479. doi: 10.2307/1129734.
35. Sears H.A., Galambos N.L. Women's work conditions and marital adjustment in two-earner couples: A structural model. Journal of Marriage & the Family 1992, 54:789-797. doi: 10.2307/353161.
36. Smetana J.G. Concepts of self and social convention: Adolescents' and parents' reasoning about hypothetical and actual family conflicts. Minnesota symposia on child psychology: Vol. 21. Development during the transition to adolescence 1988, 79-122. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. M.R. Gunnar, W.A. Collins (Eds.).
37. Stattin H., Kerr M. Parental monitoring: A reinterpretation. Child Development 2000, 71:1072-1085. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00210.
38. Steinberg L. We know some things: Parent-adolescent relationships in retrospect and prospect. Journal of Research on Adolescence 2001, 11:1-19. doi: 10.1111/1532-7795.00001.
39. Tilton-Weaver L., Kerr M., Pakalniskeine V., Tokic A., Salihovic S., Stattin H. Open up or close down: How do parental reactions affect youth information management?. Journal of Adolescence 2010, 33:333-346. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.07.011.
40. The Hispanic population in the United States: March 2002 (PC Publication No. P20-545) 2003, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
41. Hispanic heritage month. U.S. Census Bureau News 2010, July, U.S. Census Bureau, Retrieved October 6, 2010 http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb10-ff17.html.
42. Updegraff K.A., Crouter A.C., Umaña-Taylor A.J., Cansler E. Work-family linkages in the lives of families of Mexican origin. Immigrant families in contemporary society 2007, 250-267. Guilford Press, New York. J.E. Lansford, K. Deater-Deckard, M.H. Bornstein (Eds.).
43. Updegraff K.A., McHale S.M., Whiteman S.D., Thayer S.M., Delgado M.Y. Adolescent sibling relationships in Mexican American families: Exploring the role of familism. Journal of Family Psychology 2005, 19:512-522.
44. Vandewater E.A., Lansford J.E. A family process model of problem behaviors in adolescents. Journal of Marriage and Family 2005, 67:100-109. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2005.00008.x.
45. Vega W., Warheit G., Palacio R. Psychiatric symptomatology among Mexican American farmworkers. Social Science Medicine 1985, 20:39-45. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(85)90309-0.