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Peer reviewedBrody, 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
Peer reviewedBrody, Gene H.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1994
Examined hypothesis that parental religiosity contributes to organization of rural African American family relationships among sample of 90 African American youths and their married parents. Religiosity was linked with higher levels of marital interaction quality and cocaregiver conflict. Associations between religiosity and parent-youth…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Relationship, Nuclear Family, Religion
Peer reviewedBrody, Gene H.; Stoneman, Zolinda; Smith, Trellis; Gibson, Nicole Morgan – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1999
A family process model was used to link mothers' and fathers' psychological functioning to sibling relationship quality in a sample of 9- to 12-year-old African American youth (N=85) living in the rural Southeastern United States. Better parental psychological functioning was linked to more supportive relationships in the family, and youth in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Influence, Fathers, Mothers
Peer reviewedMurry, Velma McBride; Brody, Gene H.; Brown, Anita; Wisenbaker, Joseph; Cutrona, Carolyn E.; Simons, Ronald L. – Family Relations, 2002
Using an ecological risk-protection perspective, explores functional changes in single African American mothers (N=96) receiving government assistance. Examines links among maternal employment, mothers' physical and psychological health, and children's attributions about causes of poverty. Maternal psychological distress was linked with children's…
Descriptors: Blacks, Coping, Economic Factors, Employed Parents
Peer reviewedKim, Sooyeon; Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma McBride – Journal of Black Psychology, 2003
Collected longitudinal data from rural, African American, single mother-headed families with young adolescents to examine longitudinal links between contextual risks, parenting, and youth outcome. Accumulated risks related to lower levels of the competence-promoting parenting practices that were linked directly with youth outcomes via youth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Context Effect, Early Adolescents
Download full textBrody, Gene H.; And Others – 1994
A study examined a proposed family process model that links family financial resources to academic competence and socioemotional adjustment during early adolescence. Subjects were 90 9-to-12-year-old African American youths and their married parents, all of whom lived in the rural southeastern United States. The theoretical constructs in the model…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Rearing, Financial Problems, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedMurry, Velma McBride; Brody, Gene H. – Journal of Family Issues, 1999
Examines risk and protective factors to identify processes in rural, single-parent families that are linked with positive child outcomes. Protective domains promoted greater child self-regulation; parenting protective factors promoted greater self-regulation. Maternal risk had the greatest negative effect on child self-worth. Results also reveal…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Children, Competence
Peer reviewedSimons, Ronald L.; Lin, Kuei-Hsiu; Gordon, Leslie C.; Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma; Conger, Rand D. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2002
Surveys African American families (N=841) to test hypothesis that community context might influence the association between parent control and punishment on child conduct problems. Survey found the deterrent effect of caretaker control on conduct problems became smaller as deviant behavior became more widespread. Results suggest that a particular…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Blacks, Child Rearing, Children
Peer reviewedSmith, Trellis; Brody, Gene H. – Journal of School Psychology, 2000
Parents, relatives, and teachers assessed cognitive and social competence among rural African American youth (N=91) to determine the extent to which adults' ratings of cognitive and social competence converge. Data supported predictions that ratings of cognitive competence would be more similar across raters than ratings of social competence.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Blacks, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedConger, Rand D.; Wallace, Lora Ebert; Sun, Yumei; Simons, Ronald L.; McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Brody, Gene H. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Evaluated applicability of family stress model of economic hardship for understanding economic influences on child development among African American families with a 10- or 11-year-old child. Found that economic hardship positively related to economic pressure in families, and to emotional distress of caregivers, which in turn damaged the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Child Development, Economic Factors
Peer reviewedBrody, Gene H.; Dorsey, Shannon; Forehand, Rex; Armistead, Lisa – Child Development, 2002
Examined contributions parenting and classroom processes make to 7- to 15-year-olds' self-regulation and adjustment among single-parent Black families. Found that parenting and classroom processes contributed uniquely to children's adjustment through the development of self-regulation, and that each process could serve a protective or stabilizing…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Blacks, Children
Brody, Gene H. – 1997
A study examined the links among mothers' endorsement of developmental goals, use of competence-promoting parenting practices, youth self-regulation, and academic and psychosocial outcomes. A sample of 175 single-mother-headed African American families with a 6- to 9-year-old child was recruited from nonmetropolitan counties in Georgia. Interviews…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Environment, Home Management, Money Management
Peer reviewedBrody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Tested a model linking family financial resources to adjustment among African American 6- to 9-year olds with single, rural, Southern mothers. Found that inadequate financial resources related to mothers' depression and low self-esteem. Self-esteem was linked with family routines and mother-child relationship quality. Child self-regulation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Child Development, Depression (Psychology)
