title: Family relationships and school achievement among boys of lower-income urban black families.
abstract: This study of poor, black, urban families relates mothers' views of the ideal relationship between their sons and the world to the sons' academic achievement. In open-ended interviews, mothers of high achievers express ideals for their sons that emphasize self-motivated, active, learning engagement with the world; mothers of low achievers express ideals that emphasize constraint, isolation, and adult control. The effects of a hostile environment on this family interaction among low achievers are considered.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D014505:Urban Population