Multiple risk factors in the family environment and youth problem behaviours
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The link between multiple risk exposure and youth maladjustment is examined to determine how certain risk factors operate together. The results support the pattern of independent, additive effects of individual family stressors. The idea that the effects of poor parenting, overt interparental conflict and family economic hardship exacerbate one another, is not supported. Poor parenting is the strongest risk factor, with economic hardship the only significant risk factor for youth internalizing problem behavior.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1999
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Selected aspects of parenting and children's social competence post-separation: the moderating effects of child's sex, age, and family economic hardship
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Data was collected to assess the effects of the child's sex, age, and the family's financial status in determining the relationship between the residential mother's interaction with the child and frequency of the nonresidential father's visit, and the child's social adaptability after marital separation. Results showed that these relationships are consistent regardless of the child's age and sex or financial status.
Publication Name: Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1050-2556
Year: 1992
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Risk, resistance, and self-esteem: a longitudinal study of elementary school-aged children from mother custody and two-parent families
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Family income plays a greater role than marital status in affecting the pressures faced by mothers. The strain on the mother, the social support she receives, and how she copes also affects the child's self-esteem. Sixty-six mother-child pairs were interviewed in the study, 44 from two-parent families and 22 from single parent families.
Publication Name: Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1050-2556
Year: 1993
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