Citation

Armistead L, Forehand R, Brody G, Maguen S. Behav. Ther. 2002; 33(3): 361-375.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0005-7894(02)80033-8

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study addressed two questions about single-parent African American families: Are parenting strategies associated with perceived risks in the environmental context? and Does the association between parenting and child adjustment depend on the context in which parenting occurs? Families (N = 277) resided in 2 communities that differed in violence-related risk: one rural (low risk) and one urban (high risk). Mother-reported monitoring and warm, supportive mother-child relationships and child-reported internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and social competence were examined. Mothers monitored their children more in the urban than the rural community. The warmth and supportive nature of the mother-child relationship did not differ across contexts. A warm, supportive mother-child relationship was associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing child behaviors in both contexts. Monitoring was associated with fewer problem behaviors only in the urban community.