Perez-Brena Norma J, Updegraff Kimberly A, Umaña-Taylor Adriana J
School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, PO Box 873701, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3701, USA,
J Youth Adolesc. 2014 Dec;43(12):2028-40. doi: 10.1007/s10964-014-0101-3. Epub 2014 Feb 15.
Cultural adaptation and parent-youth cultural incongruence have strong implications for individuals' social adaptation and family dynamics. This study highlighted adolescents' active role in parent-youth cultural incongruence through their decision to imitate or de-identify from parents, parent-youth warmth, and demographic similarities. Longitudinal data, spanning 8 years, from 246 Mexican-American families (mothers, fathers, and an early adolescent child), were used to address two study goals. The first goal was to link parent-youth relationship qualities and demographic similarities (i.e., gender, immigration status) at Wave 1 to adolescents' imitation and de-identification from parents at Wave 2. Findings revealed that adolescents who reported more parent-youth warmth reported more imitation and less de-identification. Also, adolescents who belonged to U.S.-raised dyads reported less de-identification. The second goal tested adolescents' reports of imitation and de-identification as predictors of parent-youth cultural incongruence in Mexican and Anglo cultural orientations at Wave 3. Results indicated that more imitation was associated with less mother-youth Anglo incongruence and that more de-identification was associated with more father-youth Anglo and Mexican incongruence. The unique relationship dynamics of mother-youth and father-youth dyads and the implications for intervention programming focused on reducing cultural incongruence and increasing family cohesion are discussed.
文化适应以及亲子文化不一致对个体的社会适应和家庭动态有着重要影响。本研究强调了青少年在亲子文化不一致中所起的积极作用，这体现在他们决定模仿父母、与父母保持距离、亲子温暖程度以及人口统计学上的相似性等方面。研究使用了来自246个墨西哥裔美国家庭（母亲、父亲和一名青少年早期孩子）的长达8年的纵向数据，以实现两个研究目标。第一个目标是将第1波时的亲子关系质量和人口统计学相似性（即性别、移民身份）与第2波时青少年对父母的模仿和与父母保持距离的行为联系起来。研究结果显示，报告称亲子关系更温暖的青少年表现出更多的模仿行为和更少的与父母保持距离的行为。此外，在美国长大的亲子对中的青少年与父母保持距离的行为更少。第二个目标是检验青少年关于模仿和与父母保持距离的报告，以此作为第3波时墨西哥和盎格鲁文化取向中亲子文化不一致的预测指标。结果表明，更多的模仿行为与母子之间盎格鲁文化不一致程度的降低相关，而更多的与父母保持距离的行为则与父子之间盎格鲁文化和墨西哥文化不一致程度的增加相关。本文还讨论了母子和父子二元组独特的关系动态，以及对旨在减少文化不一致和增强家庭凝聚力的干预项目的启示。
