Risk and Adversity, Parenting Quality, and Children's Social-emotional Adjustment in Families Experiencing Homelessness

Publication Date

1-11-2019

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Homelessness, Sociodemographic risk, Family adversity, Child adjustment

Abstract

A multimethod, multi‐informant design was used to examine links among sociodemographic risk, family adversity, parenting quality, and child adjustment in families experiencing homelessness. Participants were 245 homeless parents (Mage = 31.0, 63.6% African American) and their 4‐ to 6‐year‐old children (48.6% male). Path analyses revealed unique associations by risk domain: Higher sociodemographic risk predicted more externalizing behavior and poorer teacher–child relationships, whereas higher family adversity predicted more internalizing behavior. Parenting quality was positively associated with peer acceptance and buffered effects of family adversity on internalizing symptoms, consistent with a protective effect. Parenting quality was associated with lower externalizing behavior only when sociodemographic risk was below the sample mean. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Copyright Date

7-19-2017

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

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Rights Holder

Madelyn H. Labella, Angela J. Narayan, Christopher M. McCormick, Christopher D. Desjardins, Ann S. Masten, and Society for Research in Child Development, Inc

Provenance

Received from CHORUS

Language

English (eng)

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the authors and the Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This article was originally published as:

Labella, M. H., Narayan, A. J., McCormick, C. M., Desjardins, C. D., & Masten, A. S. (2019). Risk and adversity, parenting quality, and children's social‐emotional adjustment in families experiencing homelessness. Child Development, 90(1), 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12894

Publication Title

Child Development

Volume

90

Issue

1

First Page

227

Last Page

244

ISSN

1467-8624

PubMed ID

28722182

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