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Parentification, Substance Use, and Sex among Adolescent Daughters from Ethnic Minority Families: The Moderating Role of Monitoring

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Sang, Jina, Cederbaum, Julie A., Hurlburt, Michael S.·2014·Family Process
DOI 10.1111/famp.12038PMC PMC4057798
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Guided by structural family systems theory, this study explored the relationship between parentification and adolescent daughters' sexual risk engagement and substance use. We also explored how adolescent reports of parental monitoring moderated the relationship between parentification and adolescent risk. Data were from a cross-sectional, cross-generational study of 176 mother-daughter dyads from low-income, inner-city, ethnic minority families. In this sample, which included a subset of mothers with HIV, parental physical symptoms were associated with slightly higher levels of parentification. Parentification was associated with adolescent daughters' intention to have sex (but not substance use) in a direction opposite to prediction. Higher parentification was associated with lower intention to have sex. Parental monitoring did not moderate relationships between parentification and adolescent risk. These findings highlight that despite the negative influence hypothesized in structural family systems theory, parentification was not associated with risk engagement of high-risk adolescent daughters in ethnic minority families with low income.

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  • Parentification was linked to less risky sex among high-risk adolescent girls.

    “Similarly, parentification was linked to less risky sex among high-risk adolescent girls [20]”

    From Parentification Vulnerability, Reactivity, Resilience, and Thriving: A Mixed Methods Systematic Literature Review (2023) · cites this paper as [20]

    The Results (Parentification as a Predictor of Risky Behavior; page not supplied) link higher parentification to a lower intention to have sex among adolescent daughters, but find no significant relationship with whether they had ever had sex. The claim describes less risky sex, which implies a difference in sexual behavior rather than intention alone. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Among the six associations examined in three studies on risky sex, the only two significant associations were in opposite directions: more parentification was associated with lower sexual intention, and more parental role was linked with more concurrent risky sex measured as a latent variable.

    “Among the six associations examined in three studies on risky sex, the only two significant associations were in opposite directions where more parentification was associated with lower sexual intention [20], and the more parental role was linked with more concurrent risky sex measured as a latent variable [95].”

    From Parentification Vulnerability, Reactivity, Resilience, and Thriving: A Mixed Methods Systematic Literature Review (2023) · cites this paper as [20]

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Authors
Sang, J., Cederbaum, J. A., & Hurlburt, M. S.
Affiliations
University of Southern California (US)
Corresponding author
Sang, Jina
ORCID
Venue
Family Process
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2013-07-09
Volume
53
Issue
2
Pages
252-266
ISSN
0014-7370 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/famp.12038
PMC
PMC4057798
OpenAlex
W2028344764
Cited by
33
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
FWCI
6.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 784 d)
Locations
  • Family Process (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH076697)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
parentification, adolescent substance use, adolescent sexual risk, parental supervision, ethnic minority families, low-income households, mother-daughter dyads, HIV-positive mothers, sexual intention
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Minority Groups, Mother-Child Relations, Poverty, Risk-Taking, Role, Sexual Behavior, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Incidence, Logistic Models, Odds Ratio, Parenting, Substance-Related Disorders

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