Parent–child relationship qualities and child adjustment in highly stressed urban black and white families
✍ Scribed by Keith B. Magnus; Emory L. Cowen; Peter A. Wyman; Douglas B. Fagen; William C. Work
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
Compared poor, highly stressed African-American and White, 2nd-6th grade urban parents and their children on: a) three parent-child relationship clusters (i.e., positive attitudes, involvement, and discipline practices); b) nine child adjustment variables; and c) patterns of relationships between these two sets of variables. There were no significant racial group differences on any parent-child relationship cluster. Although White children exceeded African-American children on social problem solving and realistic control variables, few group differences were found in the relationships between parenting-and child test-variables. In both groups, the parent attitude cluster, reflecting overall warmth and soundness of the parent-child relationship, was the strongest predictor of positive child outcomes on teacher and child self-ratings of adjustment.