Jinjin Yan, Tiffiny Sakahara, Shanting Chen, Jiaxiu Song, Yang Hou, Minyu Zhang, Su Yeong Kim
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Extensive research on the Family Stress Model demonstrated the negative indirect impacts of parental cultural stress on adolescents' mental health via disrupted parenting. However, limited attention has been paid to testing how adolescents' cultural stress could affect parents' mental health through adolescent-reported parenting. According to Family Systems Theory, the family serves as an interdependent system, suggesting that adolescents' cultural stress can spill over and negatively influence parenting and their parents' mental health. Furthermore, prior studies have largely neglected the bidirectional link between parenting and mental health within the Family Stress Model. Thus, this study examined the associations among cultural stress, parenting (i.e., maternal warmth and hostility), and their mental health (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms) in mother-adolescent dyads across two waves. Participants included 595 mothers (Mage = 38) and adolescents (54% female, Mage = 12) as dyads. The actor-effect results revealed that Mexican-origin mothers' and adolescents' cultural stress at Wave 1 (W1) were related to their own mental health at Wave 2 (W2) via their self-reported parenting at W1. Moreover, mothers' and adolescents' cultural stress at W1 were associated with their self-reported parenting at W2 through their self-reported mental health at W1. Partner-effect results indicated that mothers with higher levels of cultural stress at W1 were likely to report anxiety at W1, which may in turn influence adolescents' perceptions of more maternal hostility at W2. This study provides implications for family-based intervention programs that aim to both foster parenting and promote mental health outcomes in Mexican-origin mothers and their adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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Developmental Psychology ® publishes articles that significantly advance knowledge and theory about development across the life span. The journal focuses on seminal empirical contributions. The journal occasionally publishes exceptionally strong scholarly reviews and theoretical or methodological articles. Studies of any aspect of psychological development are appropriate, as are studies of the biological, social, and cultural factors that affect development. The journal welcomes not only laboratory-based experimental studies but studies employing other rigorous methodologies, such as ethnographies, field research, and secondary analyses of large data sets. We especially seek submissions in new areas of inquiry and submissions that will address contradictory findings or controversies in the field as well as the generalizability of extant findings in new populations. Although most articles in this journal address human development, studies of other species are appropriate if they have important implications for human development. Submissions can consist of single manuscripts, proposed sections, or short reports.
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