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Title: Relationship of Family Structure and Context to Reports of Behavior Problems and Academic Performance in African-American Adolescents
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McKinney, Robin Earl |
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Relationship of Family Structure and Context to Reports of Behavior Problems and Academic Performance in African-American Adolescents Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Bias Decomposition; Black Youth; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Income; Family Size; Family Structure; Home Environment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Marital Status; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Self-Reporting This study investigated the effect of maternal marital status on maternal and adolescent reports of behavioral problems and academic performance in African American adolescents. The data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, collected in 1992, were used for the analyses. Three hundred and eighty, African American mothers with children 13-17 were involved. Of the 380 mothers, 135 were never married, 118 married, and 127 were separated/divorced. The adolescent sample consisted of 216 females and 243 males between the ages of 13 and 17. Maternal marital status did not have a significant relationship with maternal reports of behavioral problems, adolescent self reports of behavioral problems, and academic performance. However, maternal marital status had a strong relationship with family income, number of children, neighborhood conditions, home environment, and parent/adolescent relationships. These variables had a stronger relationship to maternal reports of behavioral problems, adolescent self reports of behavioral problems, and academic performance. Children from married families lived in better neighborhoods, had larger families, more income, positive home environments and greater academic performance than children from never married or separated/divorced families. Poverty, more importantly than maternal marital status, influenced maternal and adolescent reports of behavioral problems and academic performance. |
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McKinney, Robin Earl. Relationship of Family Structure and Context to Reports of Behavior Problems and Academic Performance in African-American Adolescents. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1996. |