The Impact of Parental Stress and Social Support on Behavioral Outcomes of Children in African American Single-Mother Households

Royal, Kira J.; Eaton, Sherry C.; Smith, Nina; Cliette, George; Livingston, Jonathan

doi:10.1353/bsr.2017.0011

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“…This study supports past research that calls for the identification of existing and new social support networks to assist caretakers in helping to raise their children (Royal et al, 2017). Future studies should delve into the precise mechanisms behind why growing up in a mother absent family is particularly related to midlife suicidal ideation.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Past research found single-mother households to be associated with a higher risk of suicidal ideation (Juon et al, 1997;Royal et al, 2017). It should be noted that singlemother households are often stigmatized and are more common among African American families; however, the adverse health outcomes are likely due to the intersection of systematic oppression, poverty, educational inequity, and limited employment opportunities (Jones et al, 2007;Royal et al, 2017), rather than simply being from a single-mother household. Participants in mother-absent homes may have been in foster care or have mothers who were incarcerated, deceased, or have serious mental health or drug problems.…”

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Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort

Sifat,

Kuo,

Yoo

et al. 2023

Journal of Black Psychology

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Suicide is a problem on the rise but not studied extensively among African Americans. It is critical to identify risk factors for suicidal ideation to reduce risk. This study examines whether family and social factors over the life course predict suicidal ideation among African American adults in midlife. We conducted multiple logistic regression analyses on data from a longitudinal cohort of African Americans first assessed in childhood to identify associations with suicidal ideation in midlife (ages 33–42). Findings suggested living without one’s mother in childhood (vs. living with mother alone; aOR = 3.69, p = .017) and parental rule-setting in adolescence ( aOR = 0.79, p = .047) were associated with suicidal ideation. Having a lifetime drug disorder ( aOR = 2.19, p = .046) or major depression by young adulthood ( aOR = 3.58, p < .001) was also associated with an increased risk of suicidal ideation. Findings highlight the importance of intervention for children in mother-absent homes for improving mental health outcomes. Family interventions that promote parental rule-setting and addressing drug problems and depressive symptoms early in the life course offer an area for intervention to reduce suicide over the long term.

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Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort

Sifat,

Kuo,

Yoo

et al. 2023

Journal of Black Psychology

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“…The idea of an empowering social network is strongly linked to the idea of the buffering hypothesis (Cohen & Wills, 1985; Royal et al, 2017) and the idea of the role of social support in activation for the labor market (Raeymaeckers et al, 2008). The social network proves to be a buffer in cases of disruption, with family and friends able to allay many of the concerns that single parents have in the initial phases of the process of household reorganization in single parenthood.…”

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Social support in the process of household reorganization after divorce

Gasse

Mortelmans

2020

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Social support has been shown to be important in the world of single parents. As for divorce, social support is mostly studied in a static way in academic research. Divorcing and/or separating people are in a dynamic state of a changing need for social support. This need changes over time within their process of becoming a single parent. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective on social support in the process of household reorganization after divorce. We argue that single parents move on after divorce and work toward a new conciliation of their responsibilities at home and at the labor market, using their social network. This resulted from a grounded theory analysis, conducted using 30 unstructured interviews that were then compared within an elaborative population of an additional 244 semi-structured interviews in order to develop a six-phase model of family reorganization after divorce.

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The Impact of Parental Stress and Social Support on Behavioral Outcomes of Children in African American Single-Mother Households

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Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort

Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort

Social support in the process of household reorganization after divorce

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