TY - JOUR
T1 - Growing up in a dangerous developmental milieu
T2 - The effects of parenting processes on adjustment in inner-city African American adolescents
AU - Vazsonyi, Alexander T.
AU - Pickering, Lloyd E.
AU - Bolland, John M.
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - The current longitudinal study examined the protective effects of parenting processes on measures of adolescent adjustment (health-compromising and violent behaviors) in a sample of high-risk, inner-city, poor African American youth (N = 2, 867). Parenting processes played an important role in this dangerous developmental milieu. For male adolescents, they accounted for 26 to 37% in health-compromising behaviors and 16 to 24% of the total variance in violent behaviors over time. Multigroup SEM analyses by sex and age groups (early, middle, and late adolescents) indicated no differences of these effects across groups. Findings provided evidence that parenting processes are salient for a high-risk, inner-city minority population in understanding and predicting health-compromising and violent behaviors.
AB - The current longitudinal study examined the protective effects of parenting processes on measures of adolescent adjustment (health-compromising and violent behaviors) in a sample of high-risk, inner-city, poor African American youth (N = 2, 867). Parenting processes played an important role in this dangerous developmental milieu. For male adolescents, they accounted for 26 to 37% in health-compromising behaviors and 16 to 24% of the total variance in violent behaviors over time. Multigroup SEM analyses by sex and age groups (early, middle, and late adolescents) indicated no differences of these effects across groups. Findings provided evidence that parenting processes are salient for a high-risk, inner-city minority population in understanding and predicting health-compromising and violent behaviors.
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U2 - 10.1002/jcop.20083
DO - 10.1002/jcop.20083
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:31644443763
SN - 0090-4392
VL - 34
SP - 47
EP - 73
JO - Journal of Community Psychology
JF - Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 1
ER -