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
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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
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 Title
Child Development
Volume
90
Issue
1
First Page
227
Last Page
244
ISSN
1467-8624
Recommended Citation
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