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Assessing the Relationship Between Parental Influences and Wellbeing Among Low Income African American Adolescents in Chicago

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Abstract

Background

African American youth in urban centers often reside in poorly resourced communities and face structural disadvantage, which can result in higher rates of poor behavioral health factors such as mental health problems, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, risky sex and lower school engagement. While parental monitoring has been shown to be protective with regards to these risk factors, less understood are the effects of parental warmth in conjunction with monitoring.

Objective

This study examined whether parental monitoring and warmth had a main or mediated relationship to behavioral health factors among low income African American youth.

Method

African American youth (n = 638) completed self-administered questionnaires on parenting factors (i.e., monitoring and warmth), mental health, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, school engagement, and sexual risk behaviors.

Results

Participants reported higher mean parental monitoring versus warmth. Parental monitoring was correlated with lower substance use, delinquency, unsafe sex and higher school engagement. Higher parental warmth in contrast was uniquely correlated with better youth mental health but also higher rates of alcohol, cigarette and marijuana use.

Conclusions

Monitoring their youth at high levels appears to be a common and effective strategy by parents in poorly resourced communities and was associated with lower behavioral health risks. By contrast, parental warmth had both positive and negative associations with behavioral health, suggesting that more research is needed to clarify the circumstances within which parental warmth may be protective or not.

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Funding for this study was provided by the Center for Health Administration Studies and the STI/HIV Intervention Network at the University of Chicago awarded to Principal Investigator Dexter Voisin. This manuscript was also made possible with help from the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (P30 AI 117943).

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Voisin, D.R., Harty, J., Kim, D.H. et al. Assessing the Relationship Between Parental Influences and Wellbeing Among Low Income African American Adolescents in Chicago. Child Youth Care Forum 46, 223–242 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-016-9373-y

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