Social Capital, Parenting, and African American Families.
African American parents and children are embedded within diverse social networks that cut across social contexts. Using a concurrent mixed-method approach, this study explored mechanisms through which kinship- and community-based social capital (i.e., intergenerational closure) may be associated wi...
| Published in: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 547 - 560 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=134434786&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 134434786 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2019 vid: 28 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 134434786 10.1007/s10826-018-1282-2 ppf: 547 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 626KB tig: atl: Social Capital, Parenting, and African American Families. aug: au: Hunter, Andrea G. Chipenda-Dansokho, Selma Tarver, Shuntay Z. Herring, Melvin Fletcher, Anne affil: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 248 Stone Building, 27412, Greensboro, NC, USA Office of Education and Professional Development, Laval University, 1050 ave. de la Médecine, G1V 0A6, Québec, QC, Canada Old Dominion University, Education Building II, 4301 Hampton Blvd, Office 2122, 23529, Norfolk, VA, USA Johnson C. Smith University, 100 Beatties Ford Road, 28262, Charlotte, NC, USA su: United States Social capital African American families Parenting Social conditions of African American children African American parents Social networks Kinship Intergenerational relations Self-efficacy Black people Child behavior Interviewing Psychology of mothers Social participation Social skills Socialization Family relations Community-based social services Research methodology Path analysis (Statistics) sug: subj: Social capital African American families Parenting Social conditions of African American children African American parents Social networks Kinship Intergenerational relations Self-efficacy Black people Child behavior Interviewing Psychology of mothers Social participation Social skills Socialization Family relations Community-based social services United States Other Individual and Family Services Research methodology Path analysis (Statistics) keyword: Child social competency Closure Intergenerational Child social competency Closure Intergenerational ab: African American parents and children are embedded within diverse social networks that cut across social contexts. Using a concurrent mixed-method approach, this study explored mechanisms through which kinship- and community-based social capital (i.e., intergenerational closure) may be associated with children's own competences at accessing social capital, as well as mothers' perspectives on the social-relational processes adhered in intergenerational closure, and on its importance for parenting and socialization goals. Third-grade children (N = 149) and their mothers participated in structured home interviews, and a subsample of mothers (n = 10) participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews. Path analysis (LISREL) indicated that kinship-based intergenerational closure was positively associated with communication between mothers and children (e.g., peers and friendships, importance of talking, life lessons) which was positively associated with children's self-efficacy in accessing intergenerational social resources (i.e., from adults). Community-based intergenerational closure was positively associated with parental community engagement. Parents involved in community organizations engaged in more parent-to-parent communication regarding parenting and childrearing issues. Greater communication between parents was positively associated with children's self-efficacy. Qualitative analyses indicated that mothers cultivated intergenerational closure across social contexts, that supported parenting and reinforced values, norms, and socialization goals, relying on network processes as theorized by James Coleman. This study highlights the mechanisms that link kinship- and community-based social capital to child social competences, as well as African American mothers' perspectives on the meanings of social relationships when there is intergenerational closure. Moreover, the study illustrates the applicability of Coleman's theory among economically diverse, southern, African American families. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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