Influences of income change and parental acceptance on adolescent transgression proneness and peer relations

Galambos, Nancy L.; Silbereisen, Rainer Κ.

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“…The results add to a growing literature demonstrating the influence of economic change on die quality of parent-child relationships (Flanagan, in press;Galambos & Silbereisen, 1987a, 1987bLempers et al, 1989;McLoyd, in press;Radin & Harold-Goldsmith, 1989;Silbereisen et al, in press). When families are coping with a job loss or demotion, adolescents report higher levels of confiict with parents than their peers report.…”

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confidence: 63%

Change in Family Work Status: Effects on Parent-Adolescent Decision Making

Flanagan¹

1990

Child Development

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The interactions of parental work status, family integration, and sex of child on parent-adolescent decision making were examined in a 4-wave study of 504 adolescents and their mothers. 3 work status groups were compared. Deprived families reported a layoff or demotion at Time 1 and no recovery by Time 4. Recovery families reported similar work status losses at Time 1 and reemployment by Time 4. Nondeprived families reported stable employment at both times. Adolescents in deprived households, especially boys, reported the highest conflict with parents. Adolescents in recovery families reported high conflict when parents were unemployed, but levels declined when parents were reemployed. According to mothers, daughters in deprived households enjoyed the highest level of autonomy of any adolescent group.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 63%

Change in Family Work Status: Effects on Parent-Adolescent Decision Making

Flanagan¹

1990

Child Development

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“…Other studies have also found that boys are more vulnerable to problematic adjustment than are girls under stressful family conditions such as poverty or parental divorce (Elder et al 1984; Hetherington et al 1989). And, there is evidence that mothers are less supportive and nurturing toward sons than daughters under stressful family conditions, which partially accounts for boys’ greater tendency toward acting-out behaviors (Galambos and Silbereisen, 1987; Nix et al 1999). …”

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confidence: 99%

Children’s Experiences After the Unintended Birth of a Sibling

Barber

East

2011

Demography

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This study examines whether children with a younger sibling whose birth was unintended experience larger declines in the quality of their home environment and larger increases in behavioral problems than children whose younger sibling’s birth was intended. We use data from the NLSY79 to estimate crosslag regression models that assess changes in the home environment and children’s behavioral problems after the birth of a sibling (intended or unintended). Results are consistent with our hypotheses, finding that, indeed, unintended births have negative spillover effects. Compared to children whose sibling’s birth was intended, both boys and girls whose sibling’s birth was unintended experienced larger declines in the quality of their home environment, and boys had larger increases in behavioral problems. We also find some unexpected evidence that mistimed births may have larger negative effects. This deserves further research, and we offer some possible explanations that could guide those investigations.

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“…In addition to the effects of economic hardship on parenting, the analytic model maps a specific pathway by which economic adversity affects the child socioemotionally. The work of Elder and his colleagues (Elder, 1979;Elder et al, 1984Elder et al, , 1985, together with recent investigations of contemporary families (Galambos & Silbereisen, 1987a, 1987bLempers et al, 1989), provides compelling evidence that children in families sustaining economic decline suffer a variety of socioemotional problems as a result of negative changes in parenting behavior.…”

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“…For example, in Lempers et al's (1989) study of white working-and middle-class adolescents (grades 9-12), economic loss led to higher rates of adolescent delinquency and drug use through increasing inconsistent and punitive discipline by parents (as reported by the adolescents). Transgression-proneness is also higher among children living in families that have experienced economic loss than among children in families that have experienced an economic gain, but only when parental acceptance of the child is low (Galambos & Silbereisen, 1987b).…”

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The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development

McLoyd¹

1990

Child Development

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Family processes affecting the socioemotional functioning of children living in poor families and families experiencing economic decline are reviewed. Black children are of primary interest in the article because they experience disproportionate shares of the burden of poverty and economic loss and are at substantially higher risk than white children of experiencing attendant socioemotional problems. It is argued that (a) poverty and economic loss diminish the capacity for supportive, consistent, and involved parenting and render parents more vulnerable to the debilitating effects of negative life events, (b) a major mediator of the link between economic hardship and parenting behavior is psychological distress deriving from an excess of negative life events, undesirable chronic conditions, and the absence and disruption of marital bonds, (c) economic hardship adversely affects children's socioemotional functioning in part through its impact on the parent's behavior toward the child, and (d) father-child relations under conditions of economic hardship depend on the quality of relations between the mother and father. The extent to which psychological distress is a source of race differences in parenting behavior is considered. Finally, attention is given to the mechanisms by which parents' social networks reduce emotional strain, lessen the tendency toward punitive, coercive, and inconsistent parenting behavior, and, in turn, foster positive socioemotional development in economically deprived children.

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Influences of income change and parental acceptance on adolescent transgression proneness and peer relations

Cited by 16 publications

References 13 publications

Change in Family Work Status: Effects on Parent-Adolescent Decision Making

Change in Family Work Status: Effects on Parent-Adolescent Decision Making

Children’s Experiences After the Unintended Birth of a Sibling

The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development

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