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Longitudinal Links between Contextual Risks, Parenting, and Youth Outcomes in Rural African American Families

Sooyeon Kim

University of Georgia

Gene H. Brody

University of Georgia

Velma McBride Murry

University of Georgia

Longitudinal links between contextual risks, parenting processes, youth self-regulation, academic achievement, and conduct problems were explored in young adolescents. Data were gathered across 4years from 139 rural, African American, single mother-headed families with young adolescents (mean age =11 years at recruitment). Structural equation modeling indicated that accumulated risks were associated with lower levels of the competence-promoting parenting practices that were linked indirectly with youth outcomes via youth self-regulation. A combination of parent and youth variables appears to foster a link that encourages academic achievement and discourages conduct problems during early adolescence. Parental involvement, support, and vigilance and youths' development of self-regulation appear to enhance development among rural African American youths growing up in challenging circumstances. When Wave 1 academic achievement and conduct problems were controlled, all paths in the model remained significant thereby indicating that the hypothesized path-ways accounted for change in the outcome variables across 3 years.

Key Words: contextual risks • parenting • self-regulation • academic achievement • externalizing behavior • longitudinal family

Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 4, 359-377 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0095798403256887
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