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Ethnic Differences in the Developmental Significance of Parentification

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Khafi, Tamar Y., Yates, Tuppett M., Luthar, Suniya S.·2014·Family Process

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Using an ecological framework, this 2-wave longitudinal study examined the effects of parentification on youth adjustment across the transition to adolescence in a high-risk, low-income sample of African American (58%) and European American (42%) mother-child dyads (T1 Mage = 10.17 years, T2 Mage = 14.89 years; 52.4% female). Children's provision of family caregiving was moderately stable from early to late adolescence. Emotional and instrumental parentification evidenced distinct long-term effects on adolescents' psychopathology and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Ethnicity moderated these relations. Emotional and instrumental parentification behaviors were associated with predominantly negative outcomes among European American youth in the form of increased externalizing behavior problems and decreased parent-child relationship quality, whereas emotional parentification was associated with positive outcomes among African American youth in the form of increased parent-child relationship quality, and instrumental parentification was neutral. These findings support a multidimensional view of parentification as a set of culturally embedded phenomena whose effects can only be understood in consideration of the context in which they occur.

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Authors
Khafi, T. Y., Yates, T. M., & Luthar, S. S.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Riverside (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author
Khafi, Tamar Y.
Venue
Family Process
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2014-03-31
Volume
53
Issue
2
Pages
267-287
ISSN
0014-7370 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2157118299
Cited by
74
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2
FWCI
1.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Family Process (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA14385, R01DA014385)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
Keywords
parentification, ethnic differences, African American youth, European American youth, mother-child relationship, adolescent psychopathology, externalizing problems, transition to adolescence, low-income households, family caregiving, cultural context
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Black or African American, Child, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Maternal Behavior, Mother-Child Relations, Psychology, Regression Analysis, Social Behavior, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Parenting, White People

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