title: Mastery in middle adolescence: the contributions of socioeconomic status, maternal mastery and supportive-involved mothering.
abstract: Mastery, or the feeling of power or control over one's life, is a vital yet understudied covariate of wellbeing in adolescence and adulthood. The goal of the current study was to explore the effects of demographic characteristics (i.e., sex, age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES)), maternal mastery, and supportive-involved mothering on children's mastery at ages 16-17 years. 855 teens (47.6% female) and their mothers provided study data as part of the 1992 and 1998 waves of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 (NLSY-79; 24.1% Hispanic, 36.6% Black). Hybrid path models indicated that only maternal parenting during middle childhood was linked directly to levels of children's mastery in middle adolescence; a small portion of the association between parenting and adolescent mastery was attributable to SES. The discussion centers on significance of these findings for future research and theory development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Technology, Learning, and Culture, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6122, Morgantown, WV, 26506-6122, USA, klmoilanen@mail.wvu.edu.
authors.forename: Kristin L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Moilanen
authors.forename: Yuh-Ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012923:Social Class