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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
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