title: Racial-ethnic disparities in maternal parenting stress: the role of structural disadvantages and parenting values.
abstract: Although researchers contend that racial-ethnic minorities experience more stress than whites, knowledge of racial-ethnic disparities in parenting stress is limited. Using a pooled time-series analysis of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (n = 11,324), we examine racial-ethnic differences in maternal parenting stress, with a focus on structural and cultural explanations and variations by nativity and child age. In kindergarten, black mothers, albeit U.S.-born only, report more parenting stress than white mothers due to structural disadvantages and authoritarian parenting values. The black-white gap increases from kindergarten to third grade, and in third grade, U.S.-born black mothers' higher stress than white mothers' persists after controlling for structural and parenting factors. Hispanic and Asian mothers, albeit foreign-born only, report more stress than white mothers at both ages due to structural disadvantages and authoritarian values. Despite structural disadvantages, American Indian mothers report less stress.
authors.affiliation: 1Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nomaguchi
authors.forename: Amanda N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: House
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012923:Social Class; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: child age; nativity; parenting stress; parenting styles; race and ethnicity; role strain; social structure
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