Parenting, Social-Emotional Development, and School Achievement of African American Youngsters

Abstract

(from the chapter) The present chapter is guided in part by the family economic stress model (Conger & Elder, 1994; Conger, Rueter & Conger, 2000) shown in Figure 3.1. The model suggests that families' economic resources are linked to adolescents' adjustment including their school achievement and psychological well-being through processes occurring in the family. To date, this model is the most comprehensive formulation linking families' economic resources to parents' adjustment, child-rearing practices, and youngsters' outcomes. This chapter also discusses how families' SES is associated with important social variables (e.g., family functioning, neighborhood conditions) that in turn, are linked to adolescents' well-being. Other social contextual variables including families' social networks, schooling, and some personal attributes (e.g., ethnic identity) of youngsters will be examined. The term, youngsters, used throughout the chapter refers to both children and adolescents although the majority of the literature involves studies on adolescents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).