%0 Journal Article
%T Maternal Parenting Behaviors and Coping in African American Children: The Influence of Gender and Stress
%J Journal of child and family studies
%D 2010
%A Gaylord-Harden, Noni
%A Campbell, Cynthya
%A Kesselring, Christine
%V 19
%N 5
%P 579-587
%X We examined the effects of maternal parenting behavior on coping strategies in 200 low-income, African American children (mean age = 10.41) and the role of child gender and economic stress on these effects. Participants completed measures of perceived economic stressors, coping strategies and perceptions of mothers' parenting behaviors. Regression analyses demonstrated a main effect for maternal support on active coping and support-seeking coping. For boys, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that maternal support and economic stressors interacted to predict active and support-seeking coping. For girls, there was a significant interaction between maternal psychological control and economic stressors in the prediction of avoidant coping. Our results add to the literature on the effects of parent-child relationships on children's responses to stress.<p />
%G 
%I Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group
%@ 1062-1024
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-009-9333-3