EJ561727 PS527729
Title: Maternal Psychological Functioning, Family Processes,
and Child Adjustment in Rural, Single-Parent, African American Families.
Author(s): Brody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L.
Source: Developmental Psychology, v33 n6 p1000-11 Nov 1997
Publication Date: 1997
ISSN: 0012-1649
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research
(143)
Journal Announcement: CIJSEP1998
Tested a model linking family financial resources to adjustment
among African American 6- to 9-year olds with single, rural, Southern
mothers. Found that inadequate financial resources related to mothers'
depression and low self-esteem. Self esteem was linked with family
routines and mother-child relationship quality. Child self-regulation
mediated paths from mother-child relationship quality and family
routines to child academic and psychosocial adjustment. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; Blacks; *Child Development;
Depression (Psychology); *Emotional Adjustment; Family Environment;
*Family Financial Resources; Models; *Mothers; One Parent Family;
Parent Child Relationship; Poverty; Rural Areas; Self Esteem; *Social
Adjustment
Identifiers: African Americans; Family Functioning; Self
Regulation; United States (South)
