Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Prospective Relations among Low-Income African American Adolescents’ Maternal Attachment Security, Self-Worth, and Risk Behaviors
Originally published 2017-01-24 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00033 ↗
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How are a dependable parental relationship, self-worth and adolescent risk behavior connected?
The paper examines secure-base relationships and self-worth in an underrepresented adolescent population, extending trust beyond early-childhood research.
Who was studied?
901 low-income African American adolescents
Age / stage: Adolescents aged 13–17 years
Read with three questions
- What sequence of attachment, self-worth and risk behavior was tested?
- Whose reports were used for the measures?
- Which families and caregiver relationships were not represented?
Keep the limits in view
The measures relied on adolescent self-report and followed annual change over a limited period. Findings concern low-income African American mother–adolescent relationships and do not establish causality or universal mechanisms.
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Ginger Lockhart; Samantha Phillips; Anneliese Bolland; Melissa Delgado; Juliet Tietjen; John Bolland (2017). Prospective Relations among Low-Income African American Adolescents’ Maternal Attachment Security, Self-Worth, and Risk Behaviors Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00033
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