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African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes

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  • Laura D. Pittman
  • P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

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The relationship between parenting style and adolescent functioning was examined in a sample of 302 African American adolescent girls and their mothers who live in impoverished neighborhoods. Although previous research has found that authoritative parenting, as compared to authoritarian, permissive, and disengaged parenting, is associated with positive adolescent outcomes in both White, middle-class and large multi-ethnic school-based samples, these parenting categories have not been fully explored within African American families living at or near the poverty line. Data were collected using in-home interviews and self-administered questionnaires of adolescent girls and their self-identified mothers or mother-figures. Parenting style was found to be significantly related to adolescent outcomes in multiple domains including externalizing and internalizing behaviors, academic achievement, work orientation, sexual experience and pregnancy history. Specifically, teens whose mothers were disengaged (low on both Parental Warmth and Supervision/Monitoring) were found to have the most negative outcomes. Furthermore, a significant difference was not found between authoritative and authoritarian parenting.

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  • Laura D. Pittman & P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, 1999. "African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes," JCPR Working Papers 119, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:jopovw:119
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    1. Rebekah Levine Coley & P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, 1999. "Welfare, Poverty, and Financial Strain In Urban African American Families with Adolescent Daughters," JCPR Working Papers 116, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
    2. Danziger, Sandra K., 1995. "Family life and teenage pregnancy in the inner-city: Experiences of African-American youth," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 17(1-2), pages 183-202.
    3. Laurie Zabin & Edward Smith & Marilyn Hirsch & Janet Hardy, 1986. "Ages of physical maturation and first intercourse in black teenage males and females," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 23(4), pages 595-605, November.
    4. Mignon R. Moore & P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, 1999. "Sexual Intercourse and Pregnancy among African American Adolescent Girls in High-Poverty Neighborhoods: The Role of Family and Perceived Community Environment," JCPR Working Papers 117, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
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    1. Rebekah Levine Coley & P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, 1999. "Welfare, Poverty, and Financial Strain In Urban African American Families with Adolescent Daughters," JCPR Working Papers 116, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.

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