Mothers’ and adolescents' bicultural management difficulties reciprocally relate to their depressive and anxiety symptoms
Su Yeong Kim·Dingjing Shi·Kiera M Coulter·Tianlu Zhang·Yayu Du·Jingyi Shen·Selena Carbajal·Katharine H. Zeiders·Wen Wen
The current study took a developmental and familial perspective to understand the impact of bicultural management difficulties on internalizing symptoms within mother-adolescent dyads. Multilevel analyses were conducted based on a three-wave data set from 604 adolescents (54% female; Mage = 12.92) and their mothers (n = 596; Mage = 38.89) in Mexican immigrant families collected from 2012 to 2020. Higher average levels (i.e., between-person) and fluctuations (i.e., within-person) in bicultural ma