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Title: Mother's Delinquency, Family Economic Status, Divorce, Children's Externalizing Problems
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Rogers, Karen Coulter |
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Mother's Delinquency, Family Economic Status, Divorce, Children's Externalizing Problems Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1994 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Children, Adjustment Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Divorce; Family Resources; Income Level; Marital Status; Parents, Behavior; Racial Differences Family economic status, marital status, and antisocial behavior have all been implicated in the development of children's antisocial behavior. Research to date has focused either on the implications of one of these variables (e.g., divorce) for children's adjustment, or investigated which variables best predict the development of externalizing problems in children. The intercorrelations between these predictors have seldom been taken into account. The purpose of the current study is to integrate these two lines of previous research, and investigate the relative importance of divorce, low income, and parental antisocial behavior in view of their high correlations. Four theoretical frameworks that offer explanations for these associations (economic deprivation, divorce, parental antisocial behavior, and multiple stressors) are described, and the hypotheses generated by each are tested. Analyses were conducted using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which includes information on all children of the women in the sample. Roughly 800 children of continuously married or separated or divorced families were included in the current study. Results indicate that maternal delinquency, divorce, and low income relative to family needs each contributes unique and independent variance to the prediction of children's externalizing disorders. Results found in the total sample held for white children and for boys, but for black children and girls, the prediction of externalizing may differ in important ways. |
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Rogers, Karen Coulter. Mother's Delinquency, Family Economic Status, Divorce, Children's Externalizing Problems. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1994. |