Stress In Latino Families Research Paper
Stress in Latino Families Following an Adolescent’s Childbearing: Effects on Family Relationships and Siblings
Evelyn Ramirez
Psych 3350
Professor Petranovich
September 12, 2013
Stress in Latino Families Following an Adolescent 's Childbearing
BACKGROUND
In this study, it shows how teen childbearing can increase stress, effects family relationships and siblings in Latino families. The theory from this study was to see the behavior of young siblings and interactions with the mother and older sister. However, some of the socio-cultural theory impacts young children because it is deals with their environment and how living in the stressful household can influence them. Some behavior from this study shows how younger siblings, mostly …show more content…
They make sure Latino mothers can understand what is happening by having translators and make the surveys third grade level because most mothers had low education. The question they asked the mother and siblings were not bias and relevant to their lives. Although, there were some flaws in the study such as, the family disruption can be father of the baby moving in, financial problems, and teenager transition to parent. Since the researcher stated that younger sister had more impact than younger brother, they should have calculated between the siblings and difference of gender. Also, the loss of participants could have affected the result because they still included 243 participants instead of the 196 participants. In the future studies, the research should considered more of the age of the parenting teen and younger siblings. They should examine changes in father- sibling relationship. Instead of using low income Mexican Americans, they should study middle class Mexican Americans because would it be the same as low income? Even though adolescent’s childbearing affects the family, can the sibling’s friends also affect them as
Evelyn Ramirez
Psych 3350
Professor Petranovich
September 12, 2013
Stress in Latino Families Following an Adolescent 's Childbearing
BACKGROUND
In this study, it shows how teen childbearing can increase stress, effects family relationships and siblings in Latino families. The theory from this study was to see the behavior of young siblings and interactions with the mother and older sister. However, some of the socio-cultural theory impacts young children because it is deals with their environment and how living in the stressful household can influence them. Some behavior from this study shows how younger siblings, mostly …show more content…
They make sure Latino mothers can understand what is happening by having translators and make the surveys third grade level because most mothers had low education. The question they asked the mother and siblings were not bias and relevant to their lives. Although, there were some flaws in the study such as, the family disruption can be father of the baby moving in, financial problems, and teenager transition to parent. Since the researcher stated that younger sister had more impact than younger brother, they should have calculated between the siblings and difference of gender. Also, the loss of participants could have affected the result because they still included 243 participants instead of the 196 participants. In the future studies, the research should considered more of the age of the parenting teen and younger siblings. They should examine changes in father- sibling relationship. Instead of using low income Mexican Americans, they should study middle class Mexican Americans because would it be the same as low income? Even though adolescent’s childbearing affects the family, can the sibling’s friends also affect them as