TY - JOUR
T1 - How do mothers manage their privacy with adolescents? Exploring mother–adolescent communication in Mexican immigrant families
AU - Shin, YoungJu
N1 - Funding Information:
The author would like to thank Dr Sandra Petronio for her advice regarding this article. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by IUPUI Developing Diverse Researchers with InVestigative Expertise (DRIVE) Grant, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (YoungJu Shin, Principal Investigator).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - The present study seeks to understand how Mexican immigrant mothers manage private information with adolescent children activating the state of emotional parentification. “Emotional parentificiation” occurs when there is a role reversal between parent and adolescent where the child is prematurely given adult responsibilities in the family and provides emotional support to parents. Sixteen Mexican immigrant mothers participated in individual interviews and as a result of the thematic analysis, three themes were identified: (1) adolescent children serving as a reluctant confidant, (2) adolescent children becoming a deliberate confidant, and (3) adolescent children employing confidant privacy rule strategies. Findings discussed mothers’ perspective of adolescent children coping with unsolicited private information from their mothers during parent–adolescent conversations where the adolescent children were put into a situation of being a reluctant confidant. Findings also demonstrated that some adolescent children became a deliberate confidant seeking information from their mothers. In reaction to mothers’ disclosure, the study identified three types of confidant privacy rule strategies used by adolescent children, that is, comforting, mediating, and protecting.
AB - The present study seeks to understand how Mexican immigrant mothers manage private information with adolescent children activating the state of emotional parentification. “Emotional parentificiation” occurs when there is a role reversal between parent and adolescent where the child is prematurely given adult responsibilities in the family and provides emotional support to parents. Sixteen Mexican immigrant mothers participated in individual interviews and as a result of the thematic analysis, three themes were identified: (1) adolescent children serving as a reluctant confidant, (2) adolescent children becoming a deliberate confidant, and (3) adolescent children employing confidant privacy rule strategies. Findings discussed mothers’ perspective of adolescent children coping with unsolicited private information from their mothers during parent–adolescent conversations where the adolescent children were put into a situation of being a reluctant confidant. Findings also demonstrated that some adolescent children became a deliberate confidant seeking information from their mothers. In reaction to mothers’ disclosure, the study identified three types of confidant privacy rule strategies used by adolescent children, that is, comforting, mediating, and protecting.
KW - Communication privacy management
KW - emotional parentification
KW - immigrant families
KW - mother–child communication
KW - role reversal
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U2 - 10.1177/0265407519836282
DO - 10.1177/0265407519836282
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85063334734
SN - 0265-4075
VL - 36
SP - 3733
EP - 3751
JO - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
JF - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
IS - 11-12
ER -