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Liana Sayer starts a new Time Use Lab at the University of Maryland

Susan W. Parker, Public Policy

The majority of research on African American adolescents raised in single-mother homes has focused on externalizing problems, with less attention to other facets of socio-emotional functioning. Using a compensatory resilience approach, the current study examined risk and protective factors at the family (maternal warmth, monitoring, psychological control) and youth (ethnic identity and religiosity) levels as predictors of depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and self-esteem among African American adolescents from single-mother homes ( n  = 193). Lower levels of psychological control, higher levels of monitoring, and higher levels of youth ethnic identity were associated with at least one of the outcomes, depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and self-esteem. In addition, self-esteem, but not hopelessness, mediated the associations between the family- and youth-level factors and youth depressive symptoms. The importance of targeting maternal psychological control and youth ethnic identity, as well as self-esteem, in intervention programs for African American youth from single-mother families is discussed.

Melissa Milkie is completing an NICHD-funded project on “Social statuses, schools, and children’s problems”

Effect pronounced for boys, African Americans, and children in disadvantaged areas

How Cultural Factors Shape Economic Outcomes

Changes in Mothers' Perceptions of Neighborhood Quality, Child Well-Being, and Parenting Stress, 1976-2002

The Four O'Clock Shuffle: Parental Management of Children's Time Scarcity

Children exposed to "Sesame Street" were more likely to be enrolled in the correct grade level for their age at middle and high school

Plan could virtually end child poverty