Linking employment status, maternal psychological well-being, parenting, and children's attributions about poverty in families receiving government assistance.

Part of a special section on the concept of resilience among families. A study was conducted to examine connections among maternal employment status, mothers' physical health and psychological functioning, parenting, and children's attributions about the causes of poverty. Findings revealed that mat...

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Publicado en:Family Relations Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 112 - 121
Autores principales: Murry, Velma McBride, Brody, Gene H., Brown, Anita
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell April 2002
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Sumario:Part of a special section on the concept of resilience among families. A study was conducted to examine connections among maternal employment status, mothers' physical health and psychological functioning, parenting, and children's attributions about the causes of poverty. Findings revealed that maternal psychological distress was linked with children's attributions about the causes of poverty, both directly and indirectly through its association with parenting. Children who did not relate poverty to social causes had better academic ambitions than did those who ascribed poverty to social, economic, or political barriers.