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Bidirectional Relationships Between Parenting Processes and Deviance in a Sample of Inner‐City African American Youth
Author(s) -
Harris Charlene,
Vazsonyi Alexander T.,
Bolland John M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12267
Subject(s) - deviance (statistics) , psychology , developmental psychology , path analysis (statistics) , permissiveness , african american , sociology , statistics , ethnology , mathematics , viral replication , biology , genetics , cell culture
This study assessed bidirectional relationships among supportive parenting (knowledge), negative parenting (permissiveness), and deviance in a sample ( N = 5,325) of poor, inner‐city African American youth from the Mobile Youth Survey over 4 years. Cross‐lagged path analysis provided evidence of significant bidirectional paths among parenting processes (knowledge and permissiveness) and deviance over time. Follow‐up multigroup tests provided only modest evidence of dissimilar relationships by sex and by developmental periods. The findings improve our understanding of developmental changes between parenting behaviors and deviance during adolescence and extend current research of the bidirectionality of parent and child relationships among inner‐city African American youth.