Pasch Lauri A, Deardorff Julianna, Tschann Jeanne M, Flores Elena, Penilla Carlos, Pantoja Philip
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0848, USA.
Fam Process. 2006 Mar;45(1):75-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00081.x.
We tested an acculturation model in a community sample of Mexican American families (146 mothers, 137 fathers, and 146 adolescents) that proposed that differences between parents and adolescents in acculturation would be associated with parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent adjustment problems. Contrary to hypotheses, we found that families who exhibited an acculturation gap were not more likely to report parent-adolescent conflict or adolescent adjustment problems. In fact, familial conflict and adolescent sexual experience were associated with high levels of acculturation among adolescents and their parents. Pending replication, these findings suggest that both parent and children acculturation may independently predict familial processes and youth outcomes, irrespective of an acculturation gap. Future research should consider other factors aside from acculturation differences that might account for parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent adjustment in Mexican American families.
我们在一个墨西哥裔美国家庭的社区样本（146位母亲、137位父亲和146名青少年）中测试了一种文化适应模型，该模型提出，父母与青少年在文化适应方面的差异会与亲子冲突及青少年适应问题相关联。与假设相反，我们发现，存在文化适应差距的家庭报告亲子冲突或青少年适应问题的可能性并不更高。事实上，家庭冲突和青少年性经历与青少年及其父母的高文化适应水平相关。在等待重复验证的同时，这些发现表明，无论文化适应差距如何，父母和子女的文化适应都可能独立预测家庭过程和青少年的结果。未来的研究应考虑除文化适应差异之外的其他因素，这些因素可能导致墨西哥裔美国家庭中的亲子冲突和青少年适应问题。
