Titre du document / Document title
Mental Health and HIV Risk Among African American Adolescents : The Role of Parenting
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
TOLOU-SHAMS Marina (1) ;
PAIKOFF Roberta (2) ;
MCKIRNAN David J. (3) ;
HOLMBECK Grayson N. (4) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Brown University Medical School/ Rhode Island Hospital, ETATS-UNIS
(2) University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry/Institute For Juvenile Research, ETATS-UNIS
(3) University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, ETATS-UNIS
(4) Loyola University, Chicago, Department of Psychology, ETATS-UNIS
Résumé / Abstract
The family system is integral to adolescent mental health and HIV risk. However, few studies have addressed family variables and adolescent outcomes among African American families. This study tested a longitudinal model of parenting, adolescent mental health, and adolescent HIV risk, among a community sample of low-income, urban African American families from the Collaborative HIV prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project (CHAMP). Consistent with general adolescent population data, we expected less parental monitoring, greater psychological control and less positive parenting to increase risk for adolescent depression and conduct problems. We hypothesized that these variables would in turn increase rates of HIV risk. We followed one hundred and thirty-four African American youth and their maternal caregivers as part of the CHAMP project. Study variables included: positive parenting, parental monitoring, psychological control, adolescent distress, conduct problems, and recent HIV risk. We examined the relationship among these variables via longitudinal path analysis. Age was strongly associated with increased adolescent HIV risk. Contrary to hypotheses, more parental psychological control was marginally associated with less HIV risk, while positive parenting was marginally associated with greater HIV risk. Adolescent depression was associated with more conduct problems, but unrelated to HIV risk. Thus, parenting practices generally considered negative might actually be protective among some lower SES African-American families. This underscores the importance of extending studies of family context and adolescent risk behaviors to diverse social and ethnic groups. Designing prevention programs for diverse groups will require articulating culturally specific effects for different parenting practice.
Revue / Journal Title
Social work in mental health
ISSN
1533-2985
Source / Source
2007, vol. 5, n
o 1-2 (252 p.) [Document : 32 p.] (6 p.), pp. 27-58 [32 page(s) (article)]
Langue / Language
Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY, ETATS-UNIS
(2002)
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INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 27875, 35400016195977.0020
Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 20201406
