Padilla Jenny, McHale Susan M, Updegraff Kimberly A, Umaña-Taylor Adriana J
Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Department.
Family and Human Development Department, T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University.
J Fam Psychol. 2016 Dec;30(8):955-965. doi: 10.1037/fam0000229. Epub 2016 Aug 8.
Parents' differential treatment is a common family dynamic that has been linked to youth's well-being in childhood and adolescence in European American families. Much less is known, however, about this family process in other ethnic groups. The authors examined the longitudinal associations between parents' differential treatment (PDT) and both depressive symptoms and risky behaviors of Mexican-origin sibling pairs from early adolescence through young adulthood. They also tested the moderating roles of cultural orientations as well as youth age, gender and sibling dyad gender constellation in these associations. Participants were mothers, fathers, and 2 siblings from 246 Mexican-origin families who participated in individual home interviews on 3 occasions over 8 years. Multilevel models revealed that, controlling for dyadic parent-child relationship qualities (i.e., absolute levels of warmth and conflict), adolescents who had less favorable treatment by mothers relative to their sibling reported more depressive symptoms and risky behavior, on average. Findings for fathers' PDT emerged at the within-person level indicating that, on occasions when adolescents experienced less favorable treatment by fathers than usual, they reported more depressive symptoms and risky behavior. However, some of these effects were moderated by youth age and cultural socialization. For example, adolescents who experienced relatively less paternal warmth than their siblings also reported poorer adjustment, but this effect did not emerge for young adults; such an effect also was significant for unfavored youth with stronger but not weaker cultural orientations. (PsycINFO Database Record
父母的差别对待是一种常见的家庭动态模式，在美国白人家庭中，它与儿童期和青少年期孩子的幸福安康相关。然而，对于其他种族群体中的这种家庭过程，我们知之甚少。作者考察了从青春期早期到成年早期，父母差别对待（PDT）与墨西哥裔同胞手足对的抑郁症状及危险行为之间的纵向关联。他们还检验了文化取向以及青少年的年龄、性别和同胞二元组性别组合在这些关联中的调节作用。研究参与者包括来自246个墨西哥裔家庭的母亲、父亲和两个同胞手足，这些家庭在8年时间里接受了3次个人入户访谈。多层次模型显示，在控制了二元亲子关系质量（即温暖和冲突的绝对水平）后，相对于同胞手足，母亲给予较少优待的青少年平均报告了更多的抑郁症状和危险行为。父亲的差别对待的研究结果出现在个体层面，表明当青少年经历了比平常更少的来自父亲的优待时，他们报告了更多的抑郁症状和危险行为。然而，其中一些影响受到青少年年龄和文化社会化的调节。例如，相对于同胞手足，经历了相对较少父亲关爱的青少年也报告了较差的适应情况，但这种影响在年轻人中并未出现；对于文化取向较强而非较弱的受冷落青少年，这种影响也很显著。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》 ）
