Familial Support in the Black Community

Wilson, Melvin N.; Tolson, Timothy F. J.

doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp1904_6

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“…Particularly for at-risk women, living with one's own mother is associated with more positive parenting behavior through the provision of social support. 31,82,83 In several studies, adolescent mothers identified grandmothers as the primary members of their social networks on whom they depend the most, particularly for childcare assistance. 84,85 Mothers' relationships with other relatives, friends, and acquaintances are also important for mental health.…”

Section: Types Of Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Support Networks and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being

Balaji

Claussen

Smith

et al. 2007

Journal of Women's Health

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The link between social networks and mental health has increasingly been recognized by public health as an important topic of interest. In this paper, we explore this association among a specific group: mothers. Specifically, we discuss how maternal mental health can be understood in the context of social networks, the influence of specific social relationships, and how the type and quality of support can mediate maternal mental health outcomes. We review interventions that foster social networks to address maternal mental health as well as other related health outcomes. Findings suggest that interventions that combine multiple treatment approaches may be more effective in addressing mental health. Also, traditional measures of social networks may not be appropriate for vulnerable populations, with qualitative, rather than quantitative, indicators of social networks being more predictive of maternal health and well-being. The implications of these findings and future research directions are discussed.

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Section: Types Of Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Support Networks and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being

Balaji

Claussen

Smith

et al. 2007

Journal of Women's Health

149

129

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“…For example, it is known that extended family household arrangements and sharing of childrearing responsibilities with extended family, including grandmothers, cousins, aunts, and uncles, is common in many black families. 43,44 This family structure is the result of both cultural style (the traditional extended family) and social stratification mechanisms. Perhaps this culturally normative family structure acts as a buffer and makes it easier for other family members to provide childrearing and child care when a mother has serious mental illness problems, thus mitigating or decreasing the significance of the pathway between maternal depression and child behavioral problems through parenting and the home environment.…”

Section: Maternal Depressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Parenting and the Home Environment, Maternal Depression, Neighborhood, and Chronic Poverty Affect Child Behavioral Problems Differently in Different Racial-Ethnic Groups?

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OBJECTIVE-To determine whether the processes through which parenting practices, maternal depression, neighborhood, and chronic poverty affect child behavioral problems are similar or different in minority and nonminority children in the United States.METHODS-Data from 884 white, 538 black, and 404 Latino families with children who were 6 to 9 years of age in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were analyzed. The outcome, child behavioral problems, was measured using the Behavior Problems Index externalizing and internalizing subscales. The effects of chronic poverty, neighborhood, maternal depression, and parenting on the outcome were analyzed using multigroup structural equation modeling.RESULTS-Chronic poverty affected child behavioral problems indirectly through the other variables, and parenting practices had direct effects in each racial/ethnic group. The effects of maternal depression were partially mediated through parenting in the white and Latino samples but were direct and unmediated through parenting practices in the black sample. Neighborhood effects were present in the white and black samples but were not significant for the Latino sample.CONCLUSIONS-Chronic poverty, neighborhood, maternal depression, and parenting practices have effects on child behavioral problems in white, black, and Latino children, but the processes and mechanisms through which they exert their effects differ among the groups. The differences may be related to social stratification mechanisms as well as sociocultural differences in family and childrearing practices.

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“…Formal kinship is a well-documented source of support for African Americans (Billingsley, 1992;R. B. Hill, 1999;McAdoo, 1997;Wilson & Tolson, 1990). According to Wilson and Tolson (1990), formal kinship connections are maintained through patterns of contact that are proximal, frequent, and consistent.…”

Section: Africentric Coping Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exposure to Chronic Community Violence

Jones

2007

Journal of Black Psychology

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In many African American communities, violence and poverty are often part of daily living. As a result, children are at risk for difficulties in all aspect of their lives, particularly their emotional well-being. This study explored the relationship between exposure to chronic community violence and the development of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), a constellation of symptoms that occur as a result of repeated exposure to traumas, in the context of specific African American cultural beliefs and values that are used as coping mechanisms. It was anticipated that the coping mechanisms would act as stress moderators, or buffers, to the development of symptoms of C-PTSD. Participants in the study included 71 African American children between the ages of 9 and 11 years who lived in a high-crime, high-poverty community in Houston, Texas. The results indicated that formal kinship and spirituality, along with high levels of combined supports, demonstrated buffering effects on exposure to violence.Exposure to chronic violent experiences is a part of daily living for some inner-city children. Such violence has the potential to affect their emotional and cognitive development. When community violence becomes a recurring part of day-to-day life, the sense of safety and security needed for normal

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Familial Support in the Black Community

Cited by 78 publications

References 68 publications

Social Support Networks and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being

Social Support Networks and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being

Do Parenting and the Home Environment, Maternal Depression, Neighborhood, and Chronic Poverty Affect Child Behavioral Problems Differently in Different Racial-Ethnic Groups?

Exposure to Chronic Community Violence

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