Marital Problems, Maternal Gatekeeping Attitudes, and Father-Child Relationships in Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Stevenson, Matthew M.; Fabricius, William V.; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Parke, Ross D.; Coltrane, Scott; Braver, Sanford L.; Saenz, Delia S.
Titel	Marital Problems, Maternal Gatekeeping Attitudes, and Father-Child Relationships in Adolescence
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 4, S.1208-1218 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0035327
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Marital Instability; Fathers; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Structural Equation Models; Parenting Styles; Interaction; Adolescents; Attitude Measures; Gender Differences; Mexican Americans; Whites; Family Structure; Parent Attitudes; Conflict; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 10; Interviews; Predictor Variables; Arizona; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Familienkonflikt; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Interaktion; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Geschlechterkonflikt; Hispanoamerikaner; White; Weißer; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Elternverhalten; Konflikt; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Prädiktor; Kalifornien
Abstract	We evaluated maternal gatekeeping attitudes as a mediator of the relation between marital problems and father-child relationships in 3 waves when children were in Grades 7-10. We assessed each parent's contribution to the marital problems experienced by the couple. Findings from mediational and cross-lagged structural equation models revealed that increased marital problem behaviors on the part of mothers at Wave 1 predicted increased maternal gatekeeping attitudes at Wave 2, which in turn predicted decreased amounts of father-adolescent interaction at Wave 3. Decreased amounts of interaction with either parent were associated within each wave with adolescents' perceptions that they mattered less to that parent. Amount of interaction with fathers at Wave 2 positively predicted changes in boys' perceptions of how much they mattered to their fathers at Wave 3, and amount of interaction with mothers at Wave 2 positively predicted changes in girls' perceptions of how much they mattered to their mothers at Wave 3. The findings did not differ for European American versus Mexican American families or for biological fathers versus step-fathers. (As Provided).
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