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Kinship Support and Maternal and Adolescent Well-Being in Economically Disadvantaged African-American Families.
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Taylor, Ronald D.; Roberts, Debra – Child Development, 1995
Tested a conceptual model developed explaining the link between kinship support and the psychological well-being of economically disadvantaged African American families. Found that kinship social support to mothers or female guardians was positively associated with adolescent psychological well-being, maternal well-being, and more adequate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Rearing
Single Mothers in Low-Wage Jobs: Financial Strain, Parenting, and Preschoolers' Outcomes.
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Jackson, Aurora P.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Huang, Chien-Chung; Glassman, Marc – Child Development, 2000
Examined how maternal education, economic conditions, and instrumental support influenced maternal psychological functioning, parenting, and child development among single Black mothers. Found that maternal education positively related to earnings, which, with instrumental support, negatively related to financial strain. Financial strain related…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Child Development, Depression (Psychology)
African American Fathers in Low Income, Urban Families: Development, Behavior, and Home Environment of Their Three-Year-Old Children.
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Black, Maureen M.; Dubowitz, Howard; Starr, Raymond H., Jr. – Child Development, 1999
Examined relationship between paternal roles and 3-year olds' well-being in low income, African-American families. Found that children's cognition, receptive language, behavior, and home environment were not related to father presence. Controlled for maternal age, education, and parenting satisfaction; found that paternal roles related to indices…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Child Behavior, Child Development
Longitudinal Pathways to Competence and Psychological Adjustment among African American Children Living in Rural Single-Parent Households.
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Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma McBride; Kim, Sooyeon; Brown, Anita C. – Child Development, 2002
Examined the relationship between maternal psychological functioning and child competence and psychological adjustment among black families with 11-year-old children. Found a chain of influences over a 3-year period in which maternal education and income were linked with maternal psychological functioning, which predicted competence-promoting…
Descriptors: Black Family, Black Mothers, Black Youth, Blacks
Interobserver Agreement in the Assessment of Parental Behavior and Parent-Adolescent Conflict: African American Mothers, Daughters, and Independent Observers.
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Gonzales, Nancy A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined maternal support, restrictive control and parent-adolescent conflict of 57 African American female adolescents and their mothers. Found that mothers provided significantly more positive views of their own parenting behavior and of the mother-daughter relationship than did their daughters. Mothers' ratings of maternal restrictive control…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Daughters, Family Structure
Domain-Specific Antecedents of Parental Psychological Control and Monitoring: The Role of Parenting Beliefs and Practices.
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Smetana, Judith G.; Daddis, Christopher – Child Development, 2002
Examined effects of domain-differentiated beliefs about legitimate parental authority, and ratings of restrictive parental control and adolescent- and mother- reported psychological and behavioral control. Found that domain-specific parenting beliefs and ratings predicted adolescent-reported maternal psychological control and parental monitoring.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Beliefs
Neither Too Sweet nor Too Sour: Problem Peers, Maternal Control, and Problem Behavior in African American Adolescents.
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Mason, Craig A.; And Others – Child Development, 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…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Blacks
Unemployment and Work Interruption among African American Single Mothers: Effects on Parenting and Adolescent Socioemotional Functioning.
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McLoyd, Vonnie C.; And Others – Child Development, 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…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Black Mothers, Blacks