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Parental Involvement Promotes Rural African American Youths’ Self‐Pride and Sexual Self‐Concepts
Author(s) -
McBride Murry Velma,
Brody Gene H.,
McNair Lily D.,
Luo Zupei,
Gibbons Frederick X.,
Gerrard Meg,
Wills Thomas Ashby
Publication year - 2005
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.1741-3737.2005.00158.x
Subject(s) - pride , socialization , psychology , intervention (counseling) , developmental psychology , identity (music) , african american , sexual identity , social psychology , clinical psychology , gender studies , human sexuality , sociology , ethnology , physics , psychiatry , political science , acoustics , law
This study, an evaluation of the Strong African American Families Program, was designed to determine whether intervention‐induced changes in targeted parenting behaviors were associated with young adolescents’ development of racial pride, self‐esteem, and sexual identity. Participants were 332 African American mothers and their 11‐year‐old children in 9 rural Georgia counties. Families were randomly assigned to a control group or an intervention group. Unlike those in the control families, mothers in the intervention group reported increases in targeted parenting behaviors, which promoted self‐esteem, positive racial identity, and positive sexual self‐concepts among their children. These findings expand the study of African American youths’ identity development by including broader domains of identity and parenting processes other than racial socialization.