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Religion's Role in Organizing Family Relationships: Family Process in Rural, Two-Parent African American Families.
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Brody, 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
The Influence of Role Status on Risky Sexual Behavior among African Americans during the Transition to Adulthood
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Kogan, Steven M.; Brody, Gene H.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Murry, Velma McBride; Cutrona, Carolyn E.; Simons, Ronald L.; Wingood, Gina; DiClemente, Ralph – Journal of Black Psychology, 2008
Little research has examined the links between role status changes during the transition to adulthood and sexual behaviors that place African Americans at risk for sexually transmitted infections. Moreover, the mediating processes that explain these links, or protective factors that may buffer young adults from risky sexual behavior, are unknown.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Employment Level, Young Adults, Parents
Parent-Child Relationships, Family Problem-Solving Behavior, and Sibling Relationship Quality: The Moderating Role of Sibling Temperaments.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Observed parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and family problem solving, and obtained parent-reported child temperament assessments. Found that links among mother-older child relationship quality, father-older child relationship quality, and sibling relationship quality were moderated by the older sibling's temperament. The…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Personality
Effects of Television Viewing on Family Interactions: An Observational Study.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Family Relations, 1980
Assessed how family interaction patterns are influenced by television viewing. Results revealed that children oriented toward their parents less, talked less, and were less active and that fathers oriented toward their children and spouses less, talked less and made fewer positive facial expressions during television-viewing than during family…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Relationship, Interaction
Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Associations of Sibling Conflict with Family Relationship Assessments and Family Discussions about Sibling Problems.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Examined the relationship between sibling conflict and marital satisfaction, spousal conflict, family emotional climate, and family problem-solving processes that involve siblings. Results indicated that equal treatment by parents, family harmony in family discussions of sibling problems, and parent perceptions of family cohesiveness were…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict Resolution, Family Communication, Family Environment
Community Differences in the Association between Parenting: Practices and Child Conduct Problems.
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Simons, 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
Economic Pressure in African American Families: A Replication and Extension of the Family Stress Model.
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Conger, 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
Effects of Residential Instability on Head Start Children and Their Relationships with Older Siblings: Influences of Child Emotionality and Conflict between Family Members.
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Stoneman, Zolinda; Brody, Gene H.; Churchill, Susan L.; Winn, Laura L. – Child Development, 1999
Examined influence of residential dislocations on child behavior problems, depression, peer competence, cognitive competence, and quality of sibling relationships among Head Start children and their older siblings. Found that child emotionality moderated the effects of residential mobility. Caregiver conflict was a less powerful moderator.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cognitive Development, Conflict, Depression (Psychology)
Coparenting, Family Interactions, and Competence among African American Youths.
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Brody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L. – New Directions for Child Development, 1996
Traced pathways between perceived coparenting support and child-rearing conflict, family interaction quality, and child self-regulation, academic competence, and behavior problems in families of 9- to 12-year-old African-Americans. Found that husbands' perception of coparental support was linked to family interaction quality; wives' perception of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Black Youth, Child Rearing
Sibling Conflict: Contributions of the Siblings Themselves, the Parent-Sibling Relationship, and the Broader Family System.
Brody, Gene H.; Stoneman, Zolinda – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1987
Proposes a theoretical framework of sibling conflict that includes temperamental characteristics of the siblings, the parent-sibling relationship, and the interaction between these factors. Continuing research validates this framework. (BJV)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Psychology, Childhood Attitudes
Longitudinal Direct and Indirect Pathways Linking Older Sibling Competence to the Development of Younger Sibling Competence.
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Brody, Gene H.; Kim, Sooyeon; Murry, Velma McBride; Brown, Anita C. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Tested links between early adolescent older sibling (OS) and younger sibling (YS) competence in rural African American families. Found that OS competence was stable across time and related to improvements in mothers' psychological functioning from Wave 1 to Wave 2. Mothers' Wave-2 psychological functioning related to Wave-3 involved-supportive…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Children, Competence, Early Adolescents
Linking Family Processes and Academic Competence among Rural African American Youths.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
Tested a family process model that links family financial resources and parental educational attainment to academic competence during early adolescence on 90 rural African American youths ages 9-12 and their parents. Parental educational attainment was linked with family financial resources and with parental involvement with the adolescent's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Education, Black Family