title: Financial strain, parenting behaviors, and adolescents' achievement: testing model equivalence between African American and European American single- and two-parent families.
abstract: This study tested the equivalence of a theoretical model of parenting behaviors linking financial strain to adolescents' achievement for African American and European American families and for single- and two-parent families. The sample included an economic cross-section of African American (n = 387) and European American families (n = 230) from single- (n = 171) and two-parent (n = 446) homes. Multi-group analyses revealed no significant differences in the structural equation models between the African American and European American families, or between the single- and two-parent families. Results demonstrated that negative parent-adolescent relationships and parental school involvement mediated the relation between financial strain and adolescents' academic achievement.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48106-1248, USA. lmgutman@umich.edu
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Gutman
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Eccles
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008396:Maryland; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology*; D020954:Single-Parent Family / Q000523:psychology; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*