Aroian Karen J, Templin Thomas N, Hough Edythe S
College of Nursing, University of Central Florida.
College of Nursing, Wayne State University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2016 Oct;22(4):533-543. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000084. Epub 2016 Apr 7.
This longitudinal study examines reciprocal and dynamic relations among daily hassles, the mother-child relationship, and adolescent behavior problems and whether the relations differed by sociodemographic variables.
Three waves of data about adolescent daily hassles, quality of the mother-child relationship, and adolescent behavior problems were collected from 454 Arab Muslim adolescents and their immigrant mothers over a 3-year period. Cross-lagged structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine reciprocal relations among the study variables.
Relations between the mother-child relationship and adolescent behavior problems were reciprocal, with a poor mother-child relationship contributing to greater behavior problems and behavior problems contributing to a decline in the quality of the mother-child relationship. Relations involving daily hassles were unidirectional: A better mother-child relationship contributed to fewer daily hassles and behavior problems contributed to more daily hassles but daily hassles did not contribute to more behavior problems. Father's education was the only sociodemographic variable that was significant: Adolescents with more highly educated fathers had a better mother-child relationship and fewer behavioral problems.
Findings suggest that Arab American Muslim adolescents with behavior problems are differentially exposed to daily hassles but daily hassles are not the best point of intervention. Bidirectional relations between the mother-child relationship and adolescent behavior problems suggest intervening to improve the mother-child relationship and manage symptoms of adolescent behavior problems. (PsycINFO Database Record
本纵向研究考察了日常烦恼、母子关系和青少年行为问题之间的相互及动态关系，以及这些关系是否因社会人口统计学变量而有所不同。
在3年时间里，从454名阿拉伯穆斯林青少年及其移民母亲那里收集了关于青少年日常烦恼、母子关系质量和青少年行为问题的三轮数据。采用交叉滞后结构方程模型（SEM）来考察研究变量之间的相互关系。
母子关系与青少年行为问题之间的关系是相互的，不良的母子关系会导致更多的行为问题，而行为问题又会导致母子关系质量下降。涉及日常烦恼的关系是单向的：较好的母子关系会导致较少的日常烦恼，行为问题会导致更多的日常烦恼，但日常烦恼不会导致更多的行为问题。父亲的教育程度是唯一显著的社会人口统计学变量：父亲受教育程度较高的青少年，其母子关系更好，行为问题也更少。
研究结果表明，有行为问题的阿拉伯裔美国穆斯林青少年面临的日常烦恼存在差异，但日常烦恼并非最佳干预点。母子关系与青少年行为问题之间的双向关系表明，应进行干预以改善母子关系并管理青少年行为问题的症状。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
