Chickasaw Native American adolescent mothers: Implications for early intervention practices
✍ Scribed by Anne McDonald Culp; Virginia McCarthick
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
Twenty-four adolescent mothers completed a cultural identity questionnaire and met with an observer in their home to complete the HOME Scale. Analyses utilizing Pearson product moment correlation coefficients found a significant relationship between high identity with the Native American culture and lower scores on verbal responsivity and on provision of material goods. These findings were expected given the Chickasaw values of quietness, reservation, and few worldly possessions. This study illustrates why cultural sensitivity is important for training and in practice when providing community services, such as early intervention. ᭧ 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Adolescent parenting practices have been found to differ when compared to older mothers, especially in the area of responsiveness and verbal interactions (Chase-Lansdale, Brooks-Gunn, & Palkoff, 1991;Culp, Osofsky, & O'Brien, 1996), and stimulation in the home environment (see Luster & Mittelstaedt, 1993, for a review). In this regard, early interventions in home visitation have targeted first-time adolescent parents and have found effective results in better maternal perception of empathic understanding toward children and increased understanding of adult roles in parenting. (Culp, Culp, Blankemeyer, & Passmark, in press). Additionally, children of adolescent mothers benefit from early intervention by nurses in the areas of reduced rate of child maltreatment, fewer ac-