BACKGROUND The aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between mothers' report of parental weight talk about her daughter, herself, and others, and adolescent girls' weight-related behaviors and cognitions among a socio-demographically diverse population of mothers and their adolescent daughters. METHODS Data were drawn from the baseline assessment of 218 mother/adolescent daughter ...

This study examined the role of mothers' child-invested contingent self-esteem, that is, their tendency to hinge their self-worth on their child's achievements, in maternal promotion of extrinsic goals, as perceived by adolescents. It was also examined whether maternal promotion of extrinsic goals would, in turn, relate to adolescents' Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Participants were 184 m...

Guided by attachment theory, this longitudinal study examined the mediating role of parent-adolescent on relation between parents’ styles and adolescents’ regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE, including managing negative affect expressing positive affect). Five hundred seventy-three Chinese junior high school students (46% male; aged 11–14 years, M = 12.76 SD 0.74) completed measures RESE a...

Mexican-origin adolescent mothers are at increased risk for poor psychosocial functioning as a result of various stressors with which they must contend; however, existing theory suggests that cultural strengths may help mitigate the negative effects of stress. As such, the current study examined the associations between cultural and economic stressors and Mexican-origin adolescent mothers' (N =...

This study examined whether intrafamily discrepancies in perceptions of the adolescent's competence and independence were associated with autonomy and well-being for adolescents and parents. The ways in which mothers and fathers consistently differed from their adolescent across measures of independence and competence regarding Type 1 diabetes, a stressful context for families, were examined wi...

OBJECTIVE To test the ability of a 3-item screening tool (Parenting Responsibility and Emotional Preparedness [PREP]) to detect adolescent mothers at elevated risk for nonoptimal parenting and poor child development outcomes at 2 years of age. DESIGN A 4-site prospective cohort study conducted from December 2001 to August 2007 of adolescent mothers recruited in the third trimester of pregnancy ...

Adolescent pregnancy (teenage pregnancy) is a high-risk condition associated with adverse outcome, not only for the mother but also for the newborn child. One report showed that teenage pregnancy was associated with adverse maternal outcomes, because teenage mothers had a higher risk of severe perineal tear during labor than adult mothers [odds ratio (OR) 1.6; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.95e...

First-time adolescent mothers are at high risk for a repeat pregnancy. The present investigation, part of an ongoing longitudinal study, examined sociodemographic, family, and health factors associated with repeat Pregnancy in a clinic sample of urban, first-time adolescent mothers (ages 13 to 17 years). They were predominantly African-American and from low-income households. Repeat pregnancy w...