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ERIC Number: EJ483931
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Unemployment and Work Interruption among African American Single Mothers: Effects on Parenting and Adolescent Socioemotional Functioning.
McLoyd, Vonnie C.; And Others
Child Development, v65 n2 Apr p562-89 1994
Using interview data from 241 single African American mothers and their seventh- and eighth-grade children, this study tested a model of how 2 economic stressors, maternal unemployment and work interruption, influenced adolescent socioemotional functioning. Found that current unemployment, but not past work interruption, contributed to depressive behavior among mothers, which in turn led to strained mother-adolescent relations. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Models, One Parent Family, Parent Child Relationship, Punishment, Social Behavior, Unemployment
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans
Note: Special issue on: "Children and Poverty."