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Cumulative Socioeconomic Status Risk, Allostatic Load, and Adjustment: A Prospective Latent Profile Analysis with Contextual and Genetic Protective Factors
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Brody, Gene H.; Yu, Tianyi; Chen, Yi-Fu; Kogan, Steven M.; Evans, Gary W.; Beach, Steven R. H.; Windle, Michael; Simons, Ronald L.; Gerrard, Meg; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Philibert, Robert A. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The health disparities literature has identified a common pattern among middle-aged African Americans that includes high rates of chronic disease along with low rates of psychiatric disorders despite exposure to high levels of cumulative socioeconomic status (SES) risk. The current study was designed to test hypotheses about the developmental…
Descriptors: Profiles, Public Health, Adolescents, African Americans
Economic Pressure in African American Families: A Replication and Extension of the Family Stress Model.
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Conger, Rand D.; Wallace, Lora Ebert; Sun, Yumei; Simons, Ronald L.; McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Brody, Gene H. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Evaluated applicability of family stress model of economic hardship for understanding economic influences on child development among African American families with a 10- or 11-year-old child. Found that economic hardship positively related to economic pressure in families, and to emotional distress of caregivers, which in turn damaged the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Child Development, Economic Factors
Parental Religiosity, Family Processes, and Youth Competence in Rural, Two-Parent African American Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Tested a model linking parental formal religiosity to early adolescents' academic competence and socioemotional adjustment. Found that greater parental religiosity led to more cohesive family relationships, less interparental conflict, and fewer externalizing and internalizing problems in adolescents. Found that religiosity indirectly influenced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Maternal Psychological Functioning, Family Processes, and Child Adjustment in Rural, Single-Parent, African American Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Tested a model linking family financial resources to adjustment among African American 6- to 9-year olds with single, rural, Southern mothers. Found that inadequate financial resources related to mothers' depression and low self-esteem. Self-esteem was linked with family routines and mother-child relationship quality. Child self-regulation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Child Development, Depression (Psychology)