Citation

Simons RL, Simons LG, Burt CH, Drummund H, Stewart E, Brody GH, Gibbons FX, Cutrona C. J. Health Soc. Behav. 2006; 47(4): 373-389.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. rsimons@uga.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17240926

Abstract

Studies have shown that exposure to discrimination increases the probability that African American adolescents will engage in delinquent behavior, especially acts of violence. The present study extended this research by examining the extent to which supportive parenting buffers a youth from these deleterious consequences of discrimination. Analyses based upon two waves of data from a sample of 332 African American adolescent males and their caretakers supported this hypothesis. Further the results indicated that there are two avenues whereby supportive parenting reduces the probability that discrimination will lead to violence. First, supportive parenting decreases the chances that discrimination will lead to anger and a hostile view of relationships. Second, supportive parenting lowers the risk that anger or a hostile view of relationships, when they develop, will result in violence.

Language: en