• 236 (#TC1B-1) Mother-Daughter Relationships within a Muslim Community and the Influence on American Muslim Adolescent Daughters’ Health Behavior. Presented by: Ghadir F. Aljayyousi-Khalil

• 236 (TC1B-2) Mexican Families With Undocumented Immigrant Members: A Stress-in-Context Model. Presented by: Colleen I. Murray and J. Guillermo Villalobos, University of Nevada-Reno

Abstracts

236 (#TC1B-1) Mother-Daughter Relationships within a Muslim Community and the Influence on American Muslim Adolescent Daughters’ Health Behavior.

Presented by: Ghadir F. Aljayyousi-Khalil

This proposal aims to develop a conceptual model that examines the influence of the mother-daughter relationships within a Muslim community on the health behavior of adolescent daughters. The literature regarding the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the health behavior of adolescent daughters will be discussed. The mother’s values as a context to understand the dynamic nature of this relationship will be addressed. Further, the three contexts that shape and influence the values of immigrant Muslim mothers in the United States will be examined; religion, culture of origin, and acculturation. Gaps in the literature will be highlighted and implications will be discussed.

236 (TC1B-2) Mexican Families With Undocumented Immigrant Members: A Stress-in-Context Model.

Presented by: Colleen I. Murray and J. Guillermo Villalobos, University of Nevada-Reno

A stress-in-context model is applied to understanding Mexican mixed status immigrant families’ experiences, utilizing aspects of family stress theory, additional elements, and multiple contexts.  It addresses diverse patterns within horizontally extended households; considers individual, household unit, and family household; adds legal and geographic external contexts to previously-proposed contexts; include stressor categories of acculturation, reunification, ongoing threat of deportation; replaces the adaptation outcome with one of well-being; and focuses on situations faced in many Mexican families rather than by Latinos in general. The resulting model examines two potentially simultaneous periods – under fear of deportation and after deportation.