@article{ref1,
title="Parenting and child psychosocial adjustment in single-parent African American families: Is community context important?",
journal="Behavior therapy",
year="2002",
author="Armistead, Lisa and Forehand, Rex and Brody, Gene and Maguen, Shira",
volume="33",
number="3",
pages="361-375",
abstract="This study addressed two questions about single-parent African American families: Are parenting strategies associated with perceived risks in the environmental context? and Does the association between parenting and child adjustment depend on the context in which parenting occurs? Families (N = 277) resided in 2 communities that differed in violence-related risk: one rural (low risk) and one urban (high risk). Mother-reported monitoring and warm, supportive mother-child relationships and child-reported internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and social competence were examined. Mothers monitored their children more in the urban than the rural community. The warmth and supportive nature of the mother-child relationship did not differ across contexts. A warm, supportive mother-child relationship was associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing child behaviors in both contexts. Monitoring was associated with fewer problem behaviors only in the urban community.<p />",
language="",
issn="0005-7894",
doi="10.1016/S0005-7894(02)80033-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7894(02)80033-8"
}