Parenting Efficacy and the Early School Adjustment of Poor and Near-Poor Black Children

Autor/inn/en	Jackson, Aurora P.; Choi, Jeong-Kyun; Bentler, Peter M.
Titel	Parenting Efficacy and the Early School Adjustment of Poor and Near-Poor Black Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 30 (2009) 10, S.1339-1355 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X09334603
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Behavior Problems; Employment Level; Mothers; Family Income; Economically Disadvantaged; Educational Attainment; Child Rearing; Student Adjustment; Language Skills; Longitudinal Studies; Cognitive Ability; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Parenting Skills; Preschool Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Beschäftigungsgrad; Mother; Mutter; Familieneinkommen; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Kindererziehung; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Denkfähigkeit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	This short-term longitudinal study investigates whether maternal educational attainment, maternal employment status, and family income affect African American children's behavioral and cognitive functioning over time through their impacts on mothers' psychological functioning and parenting efficacy in a sample of 100 poor and near-poor single Black mothers and their 3- and 4-year-old focal children. Results indicate that education, working status, and earnings display statistically significant, negative, indirect relations with behavior problems and, with the exception of earnings, statistically significant, positive, indirect relationships with teacher-rated adaptive language skills over time. Findings suggest further that parenting efficacy may mediate the link between poor and near-poor single Black mothers' depressive symptoms and their preschoolers' subsequent school adjustment. Implications of these findings for policy and program interventions are discussed. (Contains 2 tables, 2 figures, and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10