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ERIC Number: EJ539841
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Neither Too Sweet nor Too Sour: Problem Peers, Maternal Control, and Problem Behavior in African American Adolescents.
Mason, Craig A.; And Others
Child Development, v67 n5 p2115-30 Oct 1996
Examined whether maternal control protected African American adolescents from the negative influence of problem peers in a sample of 95 seventh- and eighth-graders. Found support for the hypothesis of a curvilinear relation between control and adolescent problem behavior, and suggested that high-quality parenting can play a modest but critical role in the face of environmental adversity. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Blacks, Child Rearing, Delinquency, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Influence
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans