TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Maternal Parenting Behaviors and Coping in African American Children: The Influence of Gender and Stress
JO  - Journal of child and family studies
A1  - Gaylord-Harden, Noni
A1  - Campbell, Cynthya
A1  - Kesselring, Christine
SP  - 579
EP  - 587
VL  - 19
IS  - 5
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1062-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-009-9333-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -