@article{ref1,
title="Linking Perceived Discrimination to Longitudinal Changes in African American Mothers’ Parenting Practices",
journal="Journal of marriage and family",
year="2008",
author="Brody, Gene H. and Chen, Yi‐Fu and Kogan, Steven M. and Murry, Velma McBride and Logan, Patricia and Luo, Zhijuan",
volume="70",
number="2",
pages="319-331",
abstract="This longitudinal study was designed to test hypotheses, derived from a stress proliferation framework, regarding the association between perceived racial discrimination and changes in parenting among African American mothers in the rural South. A sample of 139 mothers and their children were interviewed 3 times at 1-year intervals. Mothers reported on perceived discrimination and two proliferated stressors: stress-related health problems and depressive symptoms. Both mothers and children reported on mothers’ competence-promoting parenting. Structural equation modeling revealed a chain-like sequence: Perceived discrimination forecast increases in mothers’ stress-related health problems, which in turn were positively associated with depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms constituted the proximal variable associated with decreases in mothers’ competence-promoting parenting. These results emerged independent of socioeconomic characteristics.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-2445",
doi="10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00484.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2008.00484.x"
}