Abstract
Drawing on a symbolic-interaction perspective and a compensation model, the processes linking mother-and father-adolescent relationship qualities, deviant peer affiliations, and adolescents' sexual intentions were investigated for 246 Mexican-origin youths born in the United States and in Mexico using multiple-group structural equation models. Deviant peer affiliations significantly mediated the relations between paternal acceptance and sexual intentions and between disclosure to mothers and sexual intentions for U.S.-born youths but not for Mexico-born youths. Findings highlight the importance of examining variability as a function of youth nativity.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 209-220 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Marriage and Family |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2011 |
Keywords
- Adolescence
- Adolescent peer relations
- Culture/race/ethnicity
- Hispanic Americans
- Parent-adolescent relations
- Sexuality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)