Daily hassles, mother-child relationship, and behavior problems in Muslim Arab American adolescents in immigrant families.

Objective: This longitudinal study examines reciprocal and dynamic relations among daily hassles, the mother-child relationship, and adolescent behavior problems and whether the relations differed by sociodemographic variables.

Method: Three waves of data about adolescent daily hassles, quality of the mother-child relationship, and adolescent behavior problems were collected from 454 Arab Muslim adolescents and their immigrant mothers over a 3-year period. Cross-lagged structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine reciprocal relations among the study variables.

Longitudinal study of daily hassles in adolescents in Arab Muslim immigrant families.

This study investigated which daily hassles (i.e., parent, school, peer, neighborhood, and resource) were perceived by Arab Muslim immigrant adolescents as most stressful over a three-year time period and according to child's gender and mother's immigration status (i.

A longitudinal family-level model of Arab Muslim adolescent behavior problems.

Arab-American Muslim adolescents in immigrant families face a number of challenges that put them at risk for behavior problems. This study of Arab-American Muslim Adolescents and their relatively recent immigrant mothers tested a longitudinal family-level model of adolescent behavior problems. Mother-adolescent dyads (N = 530) completed measures of maternal and adolescent stressors, active and avoidance coping, and social support; maternal distress; quality of mother-child relationship; and adolescent behavior problems at Time 1 and approximately 18 months later.

A model of mother-child adjustment in Arab Muslim immigrants to the US.

We examined the mother-child adjustment and child behavior problems in Arab Muslim immigrant families residing in the U.S.A.

Coping with HIV: perspectives of mothers.

This qualitative study explored how HIV-infected mothers cope with a diagnosis of HIV and their resulting life circumstances. The study was a secondary analysis of qualitative semistructured interviews with a subgroup of women (N = 35) who had participated in a larger quantitative and qualitative longitudinal study, Living with HIV/AIDS: Mother-Child Coping and Adjustment. The sample for the current study was primarily low-income HIV-infected mothers.

Development and psychometric evaluation of an Arab version of the Family Peer Relationship Questionnaire.

Little is known about parent and peer relationships in immigrant adolescents due to a dearth of culturally sensitive measures. We adapted the Family Peer Relationship Questionnaire (FPRQ) for Arab immigrant mothers and their adolescents. Mothers and adolescents completed parallel versions of the Arab FPRQ and measures of child behavior problems, child social relations, and maternal depression.

Social network structure and social support in HIV-positive inner city mothers.

It has been documented that social support influences health outcomes of persons with chronic illnesses. The incidence of HIV and AIDS among minority women is growing at an alarming rate, but little is known about social support in this vulnerable population, and even less is known about the social network conveying that support. Guided by the convoy of social networks model, this study describes the social networks in a sample of HIV-positive, urban-dwelling mothers (N = 147) by stage of disease (i.

The process of disclosing HIV serostatus between HIV-positive mothers and their HIV-negative children.

The current study explores the impact of HIV disease on mothers as they face the task of balancing their own physical and psychological needs with the needs of their families as well as the additional burden of deciding whether to disclose their HIV status to their children. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 35 women and 19 children 10-18 years of age. Mothers were interviewed about the experience of being an HIV-positive mother and issues regarding disclosure.

A model of mother-child coping and adjustment to HIV.

An increasing proportion of newly diagnosed AIDS cases is being reported among African American urban women. Recent research regarding the psychosocial and behavioral impact of a mother's HIV status on her uninfected children as well as a growing body of clinical evidence suggest that these children are extremely vulnerable and at risk for problems in psychosocial adjustment. The present paper reports the results of research designed to examine the pathways by which a mother's HIV-positive status affects the psychosocial adjustment of her uninfected school-age child.