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Vicarious Severe School Discipline Predicts Racial Disparities among Non-Disciplined Black and White American Adolescents
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Del Toro, Juan; Wang, Ming-Te – Child Development, 2023
Racial disparities in school discipline may have collateral consequences on the larger non-suspended student population. The present study leveraged two longitudinal datasets with 1201 non-suspended adolescents (48% Black, 52% White; 55% females, 45% males; M[subscript age]: 12-13) enrolled in 84 classrooms in an urban mid-Atlantic city of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Urban Schools, Discipline, African American Students
Parenting among Low-Income, African American Single Mothers with Preschool-Age Children: Patterns, Predictors, and Developmental Correlates.
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McGroder, Sharon M. – Child Development, 2000
Examined dimensions and patterns of parenting among 193 low-income African American single mothers with preschoolers. Identified four parenting patterns (aggravated but nurturant, cognitively stimulating, patient and nurturant, and low nurturance). Found that maternal well-being and sociodemographic characteristics accounted for 93 percent of…
Descriptors: Black Family, Black Mothers, Black Youth, Child Development
Social Support, Locus of Control, and Parenting in Three Low-Income Groups of Mothers: Black Teenagers, Black Adults, and White Adults.
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Stevens, Joseph H., Jr. – Child Development, 1988
Among low-income women, Black teenage and White adult mothers' social ties to significant others were found to influence parenting skill. Black adult mothers' parenting skill was predicted only by locus of control. (RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blacks, Family Problems
A Comparative Study of Black South African Children from Three Different Contexts.
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Goduka, Ivy N.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Compared family characteristics and developmental outcomes of African-American children from three rural contexts in South Africa: the homeland, the resettlement, and white-owned farms. Child outcomes were highly intercorrelated in all three contexts, but correlations among family variables, and between family and child variables, showed different…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Crowding
Early Warning Signs of Functional Illiteracy: Predictors in Childhood and Adolescence.
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Baydar, Nazli; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Used longitudinal data from a sample of African-American children of teenaged mothers in the Baltimore, Maryland, area to examine determinants of functional literacy in adulthood. Found that preschool cognitive and behavioral functioning predicted literacy in young adulthood. Family environmental factors that predicted literacy in young adulthood…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Blacks, Children
Parenting Styles, Adolescents' Attributions, and Educational Outcomes in Nine Heterogeneous High Schools.
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Glasgow, Kristan L.; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined contemporaneous and predictive relations between parenting styles, adolescents' attributions, and educational outcomes. Found that adolescents who perceived their parents as nonauthoritative were more likely than peers to attribute achievement outcomes to external causes or low ability. The higher the proportion of dysfunctional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Asian Americans, Attribution Theory
Predictors of Behavior Problems in Preschool Children of Inner-City Afro-American and Puerto Rican Adolescent Mothers.
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Leadbeater, Bonnie J.; Bishop, Sandra J. – Child Development, 1994
Using maternal reports of child behavior, evaluated child, maternal, and environmental predictors of behavior problems in 83 African American and Puerto Rican preschoolers of disadvantaged adolescent mothers. Children of teenage mothers were less likely to have behavior problems by age three if the mothers received emotional support from peers and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Blacks, Child Behavior, Disadvantaged Youth