Longitudinal links among parenting, self-presentations to peers, and the development of externalizing and internalizing symptoms in African American siblings.
A longitudinal model that linked involved-supportive parenting and siblings' ability-camouflaging self-presentations to peers with the development of externalizing and internalizing symptoms was tested with 152 pairs of first- and second-born African American siblings (mean ages 12.7 years and 10.2 years at the first wave of data collection). Three waves of data were collected at 1-year intervals. Teachers assessed siblings' externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, and academic competence; siblings reported their own self-presentations and desire for peer acceptance; and mothers and siblings provided multiinformant assessments of involved-supportive parenting. Involved-supportive parenting at Wave 1 was linked with peer-directed self-presentations at Wave 2. Wave 2 self-presentations were linked indirectly with changes from Wave 1 to Wave 3 in externalizing and internalizing symptoms through their association with academic competence.
Brody
Gene H
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Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, 1095 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30602-4527, USA. gbrody@uga.edu
Kim
Sooyeon
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Murry
Velma McBride
VM
Brown
Anita C
AC
D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001722:Birth Order / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010379:Peer Group; D012649:Self Concept; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012944:Social Support; D013663:Teaching