Abstract
In this study, we test the predictive value of Co-parenting during childhood and the Mexican cultural value of familism over companionship and intimacy with mother and father –independently- reported by young adult child. To do so, a sample of 118 students - young adult children from nuclear families- in a public university of a Northwest state of Mexico were interviewed using close-ended questionnaires; after that we performed multivariate analyses (i.e. path analyses). The results show a sex difference favoring women who reported higher level of companionship and intimacy in their relations with mothers. Similarly, women reported higher values on co-parenting and familism. Also, there were direct, positive and statistically significant effects from co-parenting and familism over companionship and intimacy with the mother. Our findings show that only co-parenting during childhood predicts the experience of companionship and intimacy with the father children experience during early adulthood.
References
Ahrons, C. R., & Wallisch, L. (1987). The relationship between former spouses. In. D.
Perlman & S. Duck (Eds.), Intimate relationships: Development, dynamics and deterioration (pp. 269–296). Los Angeles: Sage.
Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1989). Attachments beyond infancy. American Psychologist, 44, 709-
Ainsworth, M. D. S., Bell, S. M., & Stayton, D. J. (1971). Attachment, exploration, and
separation: Illustrated by the behavior of one-year-olds in a strange situation. Child Development, 41, 49-67
Arcia, E., & Johnson, A. (1998). When respect means to obey: Immigrant Mexican
mothers’ values for their children. Journal of Child and Family Studies,
, 79-95.
Belsky, J., & Hsieh, K. H. (1998). Patterns of marital change during the early childhood
years: Parent personality, co-parenting, and division of labor correlates. Journal of Family Psychology, 12, 511-528.
Best, D. L., House, A. S., Barnard, A. E., & Spicker, B. S. (1994). Parent-child interactions in France, Germany, and Italy: The effects of gender and culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural, 25, 181-193.
Brown, G. L., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. J., Mangelsdorf, S.C. & Neff, C. (2010). Observed
and reported supportive coparenting as predictors of infant-mother and infant-father attachment security. Early Child Development and Care, 180, 121-137.
Burhmester, D. & Furman, W. (1987). The development of companionship and intimacy.
Child Development, 58, 1101-1113.
Cabrera, N. J., Ryan, R.M., Shannon, J.D., Brooks-Gunn, J., Vogel, C., Raikes, H., et al.
(2004). Low-income fathers’ involvement in their toddlers’ lives: Biological fathers from the early head start rsearch and evaluation study. Fathering, 2, 5-30.
Cabrera, N. J., Shannon, J. D., & La Taillade, J. J. (2009). Predictors of coparenting in Mexican American families and links to parenting and child social emotional development. Infant Mental Health Journal, 30, 523-548.
Castillo, L. G., Perez, F. V., Castillo, R., & Ghosheh, M. R. (2010). Construction and initial
validation of the Marianismo Beliefs Scale. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 23(2), 163-175.
Cohen, J., & Cohen, P. (1983). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the
behavioral sciences. Hillsdale, NJ.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
DeRosier, M.E., & Kupersmidt, J.B. (1991). Costa Rican children’s perceptions
of their social networks. Developmental Psychology, 27, 656–662
Diaz-Guerrero, R. (1994). Psicologia del Mexicano, (6th ed.). Mexico: Trillas.
Dilworth-Anderson, P., Burton, L. M., & Boulin-Johnson, L. (1993). Reframing theories for understanding race, ethnicity and families. In P. Boss, W. Doherty, R. LaRossa, W. Schumm, and S. Steinmetz, (eds.), Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach. New York: Plenum Press.
Furman, W. & Burhmester, D. (1992). Age and sex differences in perceptions of networks
of personal relationships. Child Development, 63, 103-115.
Gable, S., Crnic, K., & Belsky, J. (1994). Coparenting within the family system:
Influences on children’s development. Family Relations, 43, 380-386.
Gasper, J. A. F., Stolberg, A. L., Macie, K. M., & Williams, L. J. (2008). Coparenting in
intact and divorced families: Its impact on young adult adjustment. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 49, 272-290.
Grusec, J. E. (2002). Parental socialization and children acquisition of values. In M.H. Bornstein, Handbook of Parenting (Vol. 5, pp. 145-167). Mahwah, N.J. Lawrence Earlbaum.
Harkness, S. & Super, C. (2002). Culture and parenting. In M. H. Bornstein,
Handbook of parenting, (Vol. 2, pp. 253-280). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Harwood, R.L., Miller, A.M., Carlson, V.J. & Leyendecker, B. (2002). Child-rearing
beliefs and practices during feeding among middle-class Puerto Rican and
Anglo mother-infant pairs. In J.M. Contreras, K.A. Kerns, & M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.), Latino children and families in the United States (pp. 133-153). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Hoff-Ginsberg, E., & Tardif, T. (1995). Socioeconomic status and parenting. In M. H.
Bornstein, (Ed.), The handbook of parenting: Vol. 2. Biology and ecology of parenting (pp. 161-188). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Horn, K. R.V. & Marques, J. C. (2000). Interpersonal relationships in Brazilian
adolescents. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24 (2), 199-203
Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (2010). Censo Nacional.
Recuperado el 15 de Enero 2014. http: www.inegi.gob.mx
Ippolito-Morrill, M., Hines, D. A., Mahmood, S., & Cordova, J.V. (2010). Pathways
between marriage and parenting for wives and husbands: The role of coparenting. Family Process, 49, 59-73.
Knight, G.P., Yun-Tein J., Prost, J.H., & Gonzalez, N. (2002). Measurement equivalence
and research on Latino children and families: The importance of culturally
informed theory. In J. M. Contreras, K.A. Kerns, & M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.),
Latino children and families in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Lopéz-Suarez, A. D., Correa, R. F. E., & Olvera, M. M. A. (2014). Cohesión familiar como
predictora del bienestar subjetivo en jóvenes guanuajatenses. La Psicología Social en México, 15, 504-511
McHale, J.P, Khazan, I., Erera, P., Rotman, T., DeCourcey, W., & McConnell, M.
(2002). Co-parenting in diverse family systems. In M. H. Bornstein, Handbook of parenting, (Vol. 3, pp. 75-107). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Moilanen, K. L. & Raffaelli, M. (2010). Support and conflicto in ethnically diverse young
adults’ relationships with parents and friends.
Mora, O., I., Chambläs, Navarro. G., Castro, M. (2002). Valores morales y familia en
estudiantes de enseñanza media de la Provincia de Concepción. Revista de Psicología de la Universidad de Chile, 11(2), 55-72.
Romero, A. J. & Ruiz, M. (2007). Does familism lead to increased parental monitoring?:
Protective factors for coping with risky behavior. Journal of Child & Family Studies, 16, 143-154.
Sabogal, F., Marin, G., Otero-Sabogal, R., & Marin, B.V. (1987). Hispanic familism and acculturation: What changes and what doesn’t? Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 9, 397-412.
Schoppe, S. J., Mangelsdorf, S. C., & Frosch, C. A. (2001). Co-parenting, family
process, and family structure: Implications for preschooler’s externalizing behavior problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 15, 526-545.
Schoppe-Sullivan, S., Mangelsdorf, S., Frosch, C.A., & McHale, J.L. (2004).
Associations between co-parenting and marital behavior from infancy to the preschools years. Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 194-207.
Snyder, D. K. (1981). Manual for the marital satisfaction inventory. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
Solmeyer, A.R, McHale, S. M., Killoren, S. E., & Updegraff, K. A. (2011). Coparenting
around siblings’ differential treatment in Mexican-origin families. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 251-260.
Autor y colaboradores (2013). Shared parenting, parental effort, and life history strategy: A
cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(4), 620-639.
Autor y colaboradores (2012). Couples’ cultural values, coparenting, and family emotional
climate within Mexican-origin families. Family Process, 51, 218-233.
Autor y colaboradores (2011). Marital relationship quality and couples’ cognitive
stimulation practices toward their infants: Actor and partner effects of Whites and Hispanic parents. Early Child Development and Care, 181, 103-122.
Tapia-Valladares, J., Rojas-Campos, A., Picado-Arce, K., & Conejo-Bolaños, L.D. (2015).
Identidad personal y apego en adolescentes costarricenses: exploración,
compromiso e inocuo nivel educacional de progenitors. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 49(1), 3-14.
Teubert, D. & Pinquart, M. (2010). The association between coparenting and children
adjustment: A meta-analysis. Parenting: Science & Practice. Oct-Dec2010, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p286-307
Unger, J. B., Ritt-Olson, A., Teran, L., Huang, T., Hoffman, B. R., & Palmer, P. (2002).
Cultural values and substance use in a multiethnic sample of California adolescents. Addiction Research & Theory, 10(3), 257-279.
Valls-Vidal, C., Pérez-Testor, C., Guardia-Olmos, J., & Iafrate, R. (2010). Assessment of
the familial relationships of young adult children of separated parents. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 51, 491-507.
Velasco, M. P.W., Rivera, A. S., García, M. M., & Arita, W.B.Y. (2014). Correlatos
culturales del bienestar subjetivo en México. La Psicología Social en México, 15, 99-106.
Wozniak, R., Sung, S., Crump, T., Edgar-Smith, S., & Litzinger, S. (1996). The Relational family values Q-Sort. Unpublished manuscript, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2016 Marcela Sotomayor-Peterson