Arizona State University.
Toronto General Hospital.
Dev Psychopathol. 2018 Dec;30(5):1611-1627. doi: 10.1017/S0954579418001256.
Growth mixture modeling with a sample of 749 Mexican heritage families identified parallel trajectories of adolescents' and their mothers' heritage cultural values and parallel trajectories of adolescents' and their fathers' heritage cultural values from Grades 5 to 10. Parallel trajectory profiles were then used to test cultural gap-distress theory that predicts increased parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychopathology over time when adolescents become less aligned with Mexican heritage values compared to their parents. Six similar parallel profiles were identified for the mother-youth and father-youth dyads, but only one of the six was consistent with the hypothesized problem gap pattern in which adolescents' values were declining over time to become more discrepant from their parents. When compared to families in the other trajectory groups as a whole, mothers in the mother-adolescent problem gap trajectory group reported higher levels of mother-adolescent conflict in the 10th grade that accounted for subsequent increases in internalizing and externalizing symptoms assessed in 12th grade. Although the findings provided some support for cultural gap-distress predictions, they were not replicated with adolescent report of conflict nor with the father-adolescent trajectory group analyses. Exploratory pairwise comparisons between all six mother-adolescent trajectory groups revealed additional differences that qualified and extended these findings.
采用 749 个墨西哥裔美国家庭样本的增长混合模型，确定了青少年及其母亲的文化价值观和青少年及其父亲的文化价值观在五年级到十年级之间的平行轨迹。然后，平行轨迹模型被用于检验文化差距-压力理论，该理论预测当青少年与墨西哥裔美国价值观的一致性程度低于其父母时，随着时间的推移，父母与青少年之间的冲突和青少年心理病理会增加。对于母子和父女对，确定了六个类似的平行轨迹，但只有一个与假设的问题差距模式一致，即青少年的价值观随着时间的推移而下降，与父母的差距越来越大。与其他轨迹组的家庭相比，在青少年问题差距轨迹组中，母亲在十年级报告的母子冲突水平更高，这导致在十二年级评估的内化和外化症状随后增加。尽管这些发现为文化差距-压力预测提供了一些支持，但在青少年报告的冲突或青少年与父亲的轨迹组分析中并未得到复制。对所有六个母子轨迹组进行的探索性两两比较揭示了额外的差异，这些差异使这些发现得到了限定和扩展。
