1-189 - Parent and Adolescent Perspectives: Parenting Processes and Ethnic Minority Adolescent Academic and Psychosocial Outcomes

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Parents and adolescents hold differing perspectives on parenting processes and acculturation experiences (Taber, 2010; Lui, 2015) that are likely to influence important developmental outcomes (Guion et al., 2009). This is likely due to individual factors and underlying processes in the parent-child relationship (Ehrlich et al., 2011). The three papers in this symposium focus on parents’ and adolescents’ reports of the same constructs and explore how these perspectives influence parenting and adolescent academic and psychosocial outcomes. Paper 1 examines Mexican American parent-adolescent discrepancies in their reports of parenting (i.e., warmth, monitoring, reasoning). It explores parent-adolescent acculturation gaps as antecedents, and adolescents’ psychosocial outcomes (e.g., delinquent behaviors) as longitudinal consequences of these discrepancies. Their findings suggest that parents who are more American-oriented tended to over-report on positive parenting which was then associated with worse adolescent outcomes. Paper 2 examines Black parents’ and adolescents’ perspectives of parents’ academic socialization messages (e.g., pressure to perform academically) and their influence on a range of academic and psychosocial outcomes (e.g., GPA, well-being). Results suggest that parents’ and adolescents’ perspectives can have differential effects on the same adolescent outcome. Paper 3 examines the gendered association between African American parents’ and adolescents’ reports of discrimination on parents’ home-based involvement and adolescent academic performance. Parents’ home-based involvement varied based on adolescents’ gender and adolescents’ and parents’ discrimination experiences. Academic involvement mediated the association between discrimination and test scores but not GPA. Discussion will focus on the methodological and conceptual implications for studying parent and adolescent perspectives in developmental science.

Sub Unit

• Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships

Chair

• Naila Antonia Smith, Dickinson College

Discussant

• Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University

Individual Presentations

• Parent-Adolescent Discrepant Reports of Parenting in Mexican American Immigrant Families: Antecedents and Consequences - Presenting Author: Yang Hou, University of Texas at Austin; Su Yeong Kim, Univeristy of Texas at Austin; Aprile Benner, University of Texas

• Parental Academic Socialization: Do Adolescent Perspectives Mediate Relations Between Parent Perspective and Adolescent Outcomes? - Presenting Author: Latisha Ross, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• African American Parents' and Adolescents' Racial Discrimination Experiences, Parental Involvement, and Academic Achievement - Presenting Author: Fatima Varner, University of Texas at Austin; Yang Hou, University of Texas at Austin