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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 71, Issue 5, Pages 1409-1423Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00236
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- NIMH NIH HHS [1 RO3 MH56063-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R03MH056063] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Using data from an ongoing study of 93 single black mothers of preschoolers who had been welfare recipients, but were employed in low-wage jobs at baseline, this study tests a model of how maternal education, economic conditions (earnings and financial strain), and the availability of instrumental support influence maternal psychological functioning, parenting, and child development. Results indicate that maternal educational attainment was positively associated with earnings, which, together with instrumental support, were negatively associated with financial strain. Financial strain, in turn, was implicated in elevated levels of depressive symptoms, which were directly and negatively implicated in parenting quality. The quality of parenting was associated with children's behavior problems and preschool ability. Specifically, mothers with higher scores on the HOME scale, our measure of involved, supportive parenting, had children with fewer behavior problems and better preschool ability.
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