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Parent–child relationship qualities and child adjustment in highly stressed urban black and white families
Author(s) -
Magnus Keith B.,
Cowen Emory L.,
Wyman Peter A.,
Fagen Douglas B.,
Work William C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199901)27:1<55::aid-jcop4>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - psychology , white (mutation) , developmental psychology , cluster (spacecraft) , test (biology) , african american , clinical psychology , demography , ethnology , sociology , biology , computer science , gene , programming language , paleontology , history , biochemistry , chemistry
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. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.