Social Capital, Parenting, and African American Families

Hunter, Andrea G.; Chipenda-Dansokho, Selma; Tarver, Shuntay Z.; Herring, Melvin; Fletcher, Anne C.

doi:10.1007/s10826-018-1282-2

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“…It also shows how individuals can benefit from participating in groups ( Bourdieu, 1973 ; Coleman, 1988 ). For example, the bond between parents and children and the time and attention parents give to their children promotes their social norms and cognitive development, and ultimately educational achievement ( Li et al, 2018 ; Hunter et al, 2019 ; Waddling et al, 2019 ) argues that family social capital contains the quality of the relationship between children and their parents. Parental concern for children, parental supervision, extended family communication and support are also forms of family social capital.…”

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Study on the influence of family capital on Chinese adolescents’ subjective well-being

Liu²,

Lin

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Subjective well-being (SWB) is an important part of positive psychology research. Compared with other countries and regions, Chinese adolescents’ well-being level is relatively lower. Under the guidance of ecological systems theory, this study is based on the survey data of PISA 2018, with 10,805 middle school students from four provinces and cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang) as the research samples, and examines the theoretical model of the influence of family capital on adolescents’ subjective well-being by means of structural equation modeling, in which the effects of family capital, school climate and academic achievement on adolescents’ subjective well-being are discussed. The empirical results show that family capital directly and indirectly negatively influences adolescents’ subjective well-being through academic achievements, and indirectly positively influences adolescents’ subjective well-being through school climate. School climate directly positively affects adolescents’ subjective well-being and indirectly negatively influences adolescents’ subjective well-being through their academic achievement. Academic achievement negatively affects adolescents’ subjective well-being. The research results strongly support the correctness of the theoretical framework, indicating the complexity of the formation of adolescents’ subjective well-being.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Study on the influence of family capital on Chinese adolescents’ subjective well-being

Liu²,

Lin

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Linked lives is a term that illuminates the importance of grounding individuals in their larger networks and acknowledges the influences of others in one's own trajectories. Mothers and fathers exist in these networks; indeed, how they tie children to these networks is vital for children's social capital, as well as children's senses of mattering to the larger community (Coleman, 1988; Hunter et al, 2018; Rosenberg and McCoullough, 1981). Children, especially as they grow, forge new and important ties outside their mothers and nuclear families, including with other relatives, teachers, peers, and other adults like coaches and neighbors.…”

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Beyond mothers’ time in childcare: Worlds of care and connection in the early life course

Milkie,

Wray

2023

Time & Society

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Family scholars examining time spent on children's care focus heavily on mothers’ allocations to a specific sphere of active caregiving activities . But children's needs for care and supervision involve connection to others; and many others beyond mothers can and do provide care, especially as children grow. Using a “linked lives” approach that centers relationality, we show how time diaries can illuminate children's time spent in “socially connected” care. Using recent (2014–2019) time diary data from the American and the United Kingdom Time Use Surveys, we examine mothers', children's, and teenagers' days to assess two forms of connected care time. First, results show that in addition to childcare time as traditionally measured by time use studies, mothers spend considerable further time providing connected care through social and community time in which children are included, religious activities with their children present, and mealtime with children. Second, looking from the child's perspective also underscores time in the larger “village” of carers within which children and youth are embedded. Fully two-thirds of 8–14-year-olds' and three-quarters of 15–17-year-olds’ waking time is not with mothers—it is spent alone or in social connection to fathers, extended family, teachers, neighbors, and friends. A “linked lives” approach shifts attention to assessing care time in diverse activities with others and to measuring mothers’ and children's time in social connections within the larger world. This analytic frame also moves away from maternal determinism to highlight the contours of children's care and social time occurring within the community at large, as well as the roles and responsibilities of those outside of the mother–child dyad across the child's early life course.

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“…However, researchers have also argued that salutary effects can emerge when PTSDaffected individuals obtain new sources of support (Hollifield et al, 2016). In support of this idea, neighborhood cohesion appears to buffer the effect of race-related stress among Black families (e.g., Riina et al, 2013), and involvement in community organizations is associated with a range of positive outcomes across Black PTSD, NEIGHBORHOOD COHESION, PARENT FUNCTIONING S5 adults and children (Cutrona et al, 2000;Hunter et al, 2019). Single parents who may have fewer social resources at their disposal might also benefit more from access to neighborhood social networks compared to those who already have greater access to social support (An & Western, 2019).…”

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PTSD and parental functioning: The protective role of neighborhood cohesion among Black and White veterans.

Franz¹,

Sanders²,

Nillni³

et al. 2022

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: Parents with a history of trauma exposure may struggle to parent effectively, particularly when symptoms of PTSD are prominent. Consequently, identifying factors that buffer associations between PTSD and poor parental functioning is critical to help traumaexposed families thrive. One important source of resilience may spring from being part of a socially cohesive neighborhood that offers positive social connections and resources. The purpose of this study was to examine whether greater neighborhood cohesion buffers associations between PTSD and perceived parental functioning. Method: A diverse national sample of 563 Black and White veterans raising children in single or dual parent households completed questionnaires assessing PTSD symptoms and neighborhood cohesion at baseline, as well as parental functioning four months later. Results: Multigroup moderation analyses that controlled for crime index, income, and sex revealed that among single Black veterans, but not other groups, the relationship between higher PTSD and poorer parental functioning was weakened for veterans who reported higher neighborhood cohesion. Conclusions: Findings suggest that PTSD symptoms and neighborhood cohesion affect parenting differently across racial and family makeup configurations, and that higher neighborhood cohesion might be particularly useful in buffering the association between PTSD and parenting among single Black veterans.

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Social Capital, Parenting, and African American Families

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Study on the influence of family capital on Chinese adolescents’ subjective well-being

Study on the influence of family capital on Chinese adolescents’ subjective well-being

Beyond mothers’ time in childcare: Worlds of care and connection in the early life course

PTSD and parental functioning: The protective role of neighborhood cohesion among Black and White veterans.

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