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The Contribution of Community and Family Contexts to African American Young Adults' Romantic Relationship Health: A Prospective Analysis
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Kogan, Steven M.; Lei, Man-Kit; Grange, Christina R.; Simons, Ronald L.; Brody, Gene H.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Chen, Yi-fu – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Accumulating evidence suggests that African American men and women experience unique challenges in developing and maintaining stable, satisfying romantic relationships. Extant studies have linked relationship quality among African American couples to contemporaneous risk factors such as economic hardship and racial discrimination. Little research,…
Descriptors: Risk, Racial Discrimination, African Americans, Child Rearing
The Relation of Child Age, Gender, and Number of Children to the Marital Adjustment of Wives.
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Abbott, Douglas A.; Brody, Gene H. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
Compared marital adjustment of 210 employed wives with no children, infants, and/or preschoolers. Although childless wives reported higher levels of marital adjustment and emotional quality of home environment than did mothers, differences were primarily due to mothers with two children and mothers with male children. (NRB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Employed Women, Family Environment, Family Size
Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Associations of Sibling Conflict with Family Relationship Assessments and Family Discussions about Sibling Problems.
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Brody, Gene H.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Examined the relationship between sibling conflict and marital satisfaction, spousal conflict, family emotional climate, and family problem-solving processes that involve siblings. Results indicated that equal treatment by parents, family harmony in family discussions of sibling problems, and parent perceptions of family cohesiveness were…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict Resolution, Family Communication, Family Environment
Sibling Socialization of Competence in Rural, Single-Parent African American Families.
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Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma McBride – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Older siblings' contributions to younger siblings' competence net of parenting processes were examined with 152 pairs of first-born (M=11.7 years) and second-born (M=9.2 years) siblings in rural, single-parent African American families. Structural equation modeling indicated that parenting was linked with older siblings' competence, which in turn…
Descriptors: Black Family, Children, Family Environment, Interpersonal Competence
The Links of Family Processes with Children's Academic and Psychosocial Competence in Rural Single-Parent African American Families.
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Brody, Gene H. – 1997
A study examined the links among mothers' endorsement of developmental goals, use of competence-promoting parenting practices, youth self-regulation, and academic and psychosocial outcomes. A sample of 175 single-mother-headed African American families with a 6- to 9-year-old child was recruited from nonmetropolitan counties in Georgia. Interviews…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Environment, Home Management, Money Management
Coparenting, Family Interactions, and Competence among African American Youths.
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Brody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L. – New Directions for Child Development, 1996
Traced pathways between perceived coparenting support and child-rearing conflict, family interaction quality, and child self-regulation, academic competence, and behavior problems in families of 9- to 12-year-old African-Americans. Found that husbands' perception of coparental support was linked to family interaction quality; wives' perception of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Black Youth, Child Rearing
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)