The Younger Siblings of Childbearing Adolescents: Parenting Influences on Their Academic and Social-Emotional Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Chien, Nina C.; East, Patricia L.
Titel	The Younger Siblings of Childbearing Adolescents: Parenting Influences on Their Academic and Social-Emotional Adjustment
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41 (2012) 10, S.1280-1293 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-011-9715-x
Schlagwörter	Siblings; Social Adjustment; Emotional Adjustment; Early Parenthood; Parenting Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Student Adjustment; Peer Relationship; Stress Variables; Hispanic Americans; Gender Differences; Well Being; Sibling Relationship; Mothers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sibling; Geschwister; Soziale Anpassung; Emotionale Anpassung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Peer-Beziehungen; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Geschlechterkonflikt; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Mother; Mutter
Abstract	The younger siblings of childbearing adolescents have poorer school outcomes and exhibit more internalizing and externalizing problems compared to their peers without a childbearing sister. We test a model where living with an adolescent childbearing sister constitutes a major family stressor that disrupts mothers' parenting and well-being, and through which, adversely affect youths' adjustment. Data came from 243 Latino younger siblings (62% female, M age 13.7 years) and their mothers, 121 of whom lived with a childbearing adolescent sister and 122 of whom did not. Individual fixed-effects models controlled for earlier measures of each respective model construct, thereby reducing omitted variable bias from pre-existing group differences. Results show that, for boys, the relationship between living with a childbearing adolescent sister and youth outcomes was sequentially mediated through mothers' stress and parenting (i.e., monitoring and nurturance). For girls, however, the relationship was mediated through mothers' monitoring only. Findings elucidate the within-family processes that contribute to the problematic outcomes of youth living with childbearing adolescent older sisters. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10