Urbina-Garcia Angel
School of Education and Social Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2025 Dec;20(1):2454518. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2025.2454518. Epub 2025 Jan 20.
Traditional research on parenthood and wellbeing often employs a positivist perspective and focuses on non-LA samples -limiting our knowledge and understanding of the influence of cultural components such as Machismo and Marianismo, have in parents' wellbeing. This study explored how Latin American (LA) parents' wellbeing is influenced by parenthood in a culture strongly influenced by such gender-based perspectives.
An interpretative perspective was employed to qualitatively explore fifteen LA parents' lived experiences and data were analysed via Thematic Analysis. The American Psychological Association's Journal Article Reporting Standards for Qualitative Research (JARS-Qual), was followed to compile this paper.
Results showed that socio-economic factors such as crime, violence, and economic inequality, negatively influence parents' wellbeing -emotions experienced and life satisfaction.
Parents find joy in sharing own personal experiences with their children and passing on gender-based models. However, parents perceive family pressure as a "burden" when expected to follow principles of Machismo/Marianismo. Similar to Asian, but unlike European parents, LA parents experience a mixture of positive and negative emotions whilst parenting -shaped by Machismo and Marianismo. This study makes a unique contribution by uncovering the unique influence of LA socio-economic challenges and cultural impositions and expectations and its influence on parental wellbeing.
传统上关于为人父母与幸福的研究通常采用实证主义视角，且聚焦于非拉丁裔样本，这限制了我们对大男子主义和圣母玛利亚主义等文化因素对父母幸福的影响的认识与理解。本研究探讨了在深受此类基于性别的观念影响的文化中，拉丁裔父母的幸福是如何受到为人父母这一角色的影响的。
采用解释性视角对15位拉丁裔父母的生活经历进行定性探索，并通过主题分析对数据进行分析。本文遵循了美国心理学会的定性研究期刊文章报告标准（JARS-Qual）来撰写。
结果表明，犯罪、暴力和经济不平等之类的社会经济因素对父母的幸福产生负面影响，包括他们所体验到的情绪和生活满意度。
父母们在与孩子分享个人经历并传承基于性别的模式中找到乐趣。然而，当被期望遵循大男子主义/圣母玛利亚主义原则时，父母们将家庭压力视为一种“负担”。与亚洲父母类似，但与欧洲父母不同的是，拉丁裔父母在育儿过程中会体验到积极和消极情绪的混合，这受到大男子主义和圣母玛利亚主义的影响。本研究通过揭示拉丁裔社会经济挑战、文化强制与期望的独特影响及其对父母幸福的作用，做出了独特贡献。
