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Positive Parenting Among African American Mothers With a Serious Mental Illness
Author(s) -
Oyserman Daphna,
Bybee Deborah,
Mowbray Carol T.,
MacFarlane Peter
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00065.x
Subject(s) - psychology , mental health , structural equation modeling , social support , mental illness , clinical psychology , poverty , parenting styles , developmental psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , economics , economic growth
Positive parenting is hampered by social‐contextual risks—lack of income, education, and support, as well as maternal mental illness—but current models do not examine the effect of each factor in concert with the others. Using structural equation modeling and a community sample ( N = 202) of African American mothers diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, we examined the direct and indirect effects of poverty, maternal education, social support, material and social stress, current mental health, and psychiatric history on positive parenting attitudes, involvement in children's education, and authoritative parenting style. The strongest predictors of parenting attitudes were stress and current mental health. Parenting attitudes were the strongest predictors of parent involvement and style but stress and current mental health were also predictive. Involvement was also predicted by maternal education and social support.