| Sumario: | The writers consider perceived paternal and maternal acceptance in relation to rural African American and European American youths' psychological adjustment. Focusing on 281 families in a poor, rural, biracial county of Georgia, they examine whether these youths' experiences of such acceptance equally related to their self-reported psychological adjustment, and they explore social-class, age, gender, and paternal-residence differences in perceived paternal and maternal acceptance and youths' psychological adjustment. Their findings reveal that only perceived paternal acceptance is significantly linked to European American youths' self-reported psychological adjustment when the effect of perceived maternal acceptance is controlled for; in African-American families, both perceived paternal and maternal acceptance are significantly linked to youths' self-reported psychological adjustment; and relationships between acceptance and adjustment are not related significantly to youths' age, gender, paternal residence, or class.
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