University of Central Florida College of Nursing, Orlando, FL, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2011 Aug;40(8):996-1011. doi: 10.1007/s10964-010-9615-5. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
Arab-American Muslim adolescents in immigrant families face a number of challenges that put them at risk for behavior problems. This study of Arab-American Muslim Adolescents and their relatively recent immigrant mothers tested a longitudinal family-level model of adolescent behavior problems. Mother-adolescent dyads (N = 530) completed measures of maternal and adolescent stressors, active and avoidance coping, and social support; maternal distress; quality of mother-child relationship; and adolescent behavior problems at Time 1 and approximately 18 months later. The youth were between the ages of 11 and 15 years at Time 1 and 48.7% were girls. Longitudinal analyses were conducted using latent change modeling with change scores from Time 1 and Time 2 data. Social support facilitated active coping for both mothers and adolescents. Although maternal avoidance coping mediated maternal stressors and its effect on maternal distress, maternal stressors and maternal distress were not related to adolescent behavior problems. The only factor mitigating the effects of adolescent stressors on adolescent behavior problems was the quality of the mother-child relationship. These findings suggest that adolescents are insulated from maternal stress and distress as long as there is a good mother-child relationship.
阿拉伯裔美国穆斯林青少年移民家庭面临着许多挑战，使他们面临行为问题的风险。本研究对阿拉伯裔美国穆斯林青少年及其相对较新的移民母亲进行了研究，测试了青少年行为问题的纵向家庭模型。母亲-青少年二元组（N=530）在第一次和大约 18 个月后完成了母亲和青少年压力源、积极应对和回避应对、社会支持；母亲的困扰；母子关系的质量；以及青少年的行为问题的测量。在第一次时，青少年的年龄在 11 到 15 岁之间，其中 48.7%是女孩。使用来自第一次和第二次数据的变化分数进行潜在变化建模进行纵向分析。社会支持促进了母亲和青少年的积极应对。尽管母亲的回避应对中介了母亲的压力源及其对母亲困扰的影响，但母亲的压力源和母亲的困扰与青少年的行为问题无关。唯一减轻青少年压力源对青少年行为问题影响的因素是母子关系的质量。这些发现表明，只要母子关系良好，青少年就可以免受母亲压力和困扰的影响。
