Support Networks of Adolescent Mothers: Effects on Parenting Experience and Behavior.
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| Title: | Support Networks of Adolescent Mothers: Effects on Parenting Experience and Behavior. |
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| Authors: | Voight, Janet D., Hans, Sydney L., Bernstein, Victor J. |
| Source: | Infant Mental Health Journal. Spring96, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p58-73. 16p. |
| Subjects: | Social networks, Parenting, Teenage mothers, Behavior, African American women |
| Abstract: | The relation between social support and lower-income AfricanAmerican adolescent mothers’ parenting experience, parenting behavior, and psychological symptoms was studied. Larger support networks were associated with better maternal adjustment unless individuals providing support were also providers of conflict. The young women’s own mothers were their most prominent providers of support, and the number of different types of support the grandmother provided was related positively to quality of the adolescent’s parenting behavior, but negatively to her experience of parenting. Having more friends in the network was related to better parenting behavior, but having more siblings in the network was related to poorer parenting behavior as well as more psychological symptoms. Although most of the young women relied on male partners for support, no variables related to provision of support by male partners were correlated with maternal adjustment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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