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Disentangling Ethnicity and Context as Predictors of Parenting within Rural African American Families
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Murry, Velma McBride; Brody, Gene H.; Simons, Ronald L.; Cutrona, Carolyn E.; Gibbons, Frederick X. – Applied Developmental Science, 2008
This study will address the initial question: Are there ethnic differences in parenting that remain when contextual variables are controlled "and" are related to culture, focusing on two samples of rural African American families. This study is part of a series of coordinated studies presented in this special issue (Le et al., 2008).…
Descriptors: African Americans, Racial Discrimination, Family Size, Educational Attainment
Linking Employment Status, Maternal Psychological Well-Being, Parenting, and Children's Attributions about Poverty in Families Receiving Government Assistance.
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Murry, 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
Longitudinal Links between Contextual Risks, Parenting, and Youth Outcomes in Rural African American Families.
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Kim, 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
Self-Regulation and Self-Worth of Black Children Reared in Economically Stressed, Rural, Single Mother-Headed Families: The Contribution of Risk and Protective Factors.
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Murry, 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
Sibling Socialization of Competence in Rural, Single-Parent African American Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma McBride – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Older siblings' contributions to younger siblings' competence net of parenting processes were examined with 152 pairs of first-born (M=11.7 years) and second-born (M=9.2 years) siblings in rural, single-parent African American families. Structural equation modeling indicated that parenting was linked with older siblings' competence, which in turn…
Descriptors: Black Family, Children, Family Environment, Interpersonal Competence
Unique and Protective Contributions of Parenting and Classroom Processes to the Adjustment of African American Children Living in Single-Parent Families.
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Brody, 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
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
Maternal Psychological Functioning, Family Processes, and Child Adjustment in Rural, Single-Parent, African American Families.
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Brody, 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)
Maternal Resources, Parenting Practices, and Child Competence in Rural, Single-Parent African American Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L. – Child Development, 1998
Tested a model linking maternal/family characteristics to child cognitive and psychosocial competence in African-American 6- to 9-year olds in rural single-mother-headed households. Found that maternal education, religiosity, and financial resources were linked with parenting style, mother-child relationship, and maternal school involvement.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Black Family, Black Youth, Child Development