Updegraff Kimberly A, Umaña-Taylor Adriana J
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Fam Process. 2015 Jun;54(2):205-16. doi: 10.1111/famp.12135. Epub 2015 Feb 10.
Mexican-origin families are a large and rapidly increasing subgroup of the U.S. population, but they remain underrepresented in family scholarship. This paper introduces a special section of four papers on Mexican-origin families designed to contribute to the advancement of research on how cultural, family, and gender socialization processes unfold across key developmental periods and life transitions in this cultural context. Two longitudinal studies of Mexican-origin families provided the data for these four papers: (a) The Juntos Project, an 8-year longitudinal study of mothers, fathers, and adolescent sibling pairs in 246 Mexican-origin families; and (b) The Supporting MAMI Project, a study following 204 adolescent mothers and their mother figures from the third trimester of pregnancy through their young children's 5th birthdays. In this introductory paper, we highlight four themes, including (a) differential acculturation and reciprocal socialization, (b) interdependence in families, (c) the intersection of culture and gender, and (d) methodological issues. We end with suggestions for future research.
墨西哥裔家庭是美国人口中一个庞大且数量迅速增长的亚群体，但在家庭研究领域，他们的代表性仍然不足。本文介绍了一个由四篇论文组成的专题，这些论文旨在推动关于在这种文化背景下，文化、家庭和性别社会化过程如何在关键发展阶段和人生转折中展开的研究。两项针对墨西哥裔家庭的纵向研究为这四篇论文提供了数据：（a）“团结项目”，一项对246个墨西哥裔家庭中的母亲、父亲和青少年兄弟姐妹对进行的为期8年的纵向研究；（b）“支持妈妈项目”，一项跟踪204名青少年母亲及其母亲形象的研究，从怀孕晚期一直到她们孩子5岁生日。在这篇引言性论文中，我们突出了四个主题，包括（a）不同的文化适应和相互社会化，（b）家庭中的相互依存，（c）文化与性别的交叉，以及（d）方法学问题。我们最后提出了对未来研究的建议。
