Correlates and Predictors of Parenting and Problem Behaviors in Young Children of African American Adolescent Mothers
Warren, Lisa Zepeda
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Title
Correlates and Predictors of Parenting and Problem Behaviors in Young Children of African American Adolescent Mothers
Author(s)
Warren, Lisa Zepeda
Issue Date
2004
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Mangelsdorf, Sarah C.
Department of Study
Clinical/Community Psychology
Discipline
Clinical/Community Psychology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Psychology, Clinical
Language
eng
Abstract
This investigation focused on the application of a modified version of McLoyd's (1990, 1998) model of the effects of poverty on children's developmental outcomes. Associations between maternal psychological and support variables, parenting, and child temperament and their relations to child outcomes were examined in a sample of fifty-four low-income African American adolescent mothers pregnant with their first child. Mothers participated in a structured interview during the prenatal period and again six years later. Maternal parenting efficacy and mother's reports of child negative affect and child effortful control predicted negative parenting. Lower maternal efficacy predicted maternal physical aggression. Mother's reports of child negative affect were a significant predictor of internalizing, externalizing, and total child behavior problems. The effect of maternal efficacy on child internalizing was mediated by maternal verbal and physical aggression. Negative prenatal temperament expectations were correlated with child negative affect, externalizing behavior and total behavior problems and were a significant predictor of maternal efficacy at Time 2. Maternal prenatal depression predicted children's internalizing. Implications for intervention and future directions for research are discussed.
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