Mental Health and HIV Risk Among African American Adolescents: The Role of Parenting
Mental Health and HIV Risk Among African American Adolescents: The Role of Parenting
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DOI：
10.1300/j200v05n01_02
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Holmbeck, Grayson N.
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作者：
Tolou-Shams, Marina;Paikoff, Roberta;Holmbeck, Grayson N.
家庭制度是青少年心理健康和艾滋病毒风险的组成部分。然而，很少有研究涉及非裔美国家庭的家庭变量和青少年结果。本研究在来自艾滋病预防和青少年心理健康合作项目（CHAMP）的低收入城市非裔美国家庭社区样本中测试了父母养育、青少年心理健康和青少年艾滋病风险的纵向模型。与一般青少年人口数据一致，我们预计较少的父母监控，更多的心理控制和较少的积极父母会增加青少年抑郁和行为问题的风险。我们假设这些变量反过来会增加艾滋病毒的风险。作为CHAMP项目的一部分，我们跟踪了134名非裔美国青年和他们的母亲照顾者。研究变量包括：积极的父母教育、父母监控、心理控制、青少年困扰、行为问题和最近的艾滋病毒风险。我们通过纵向路径分析来检验这些变量之间的关系。年龄与青少年艾滋病毒风险增加密切相关。与假设相反，更多的父母心理控制与更低的艾滋病毒风险略有关联，而积极的父母养育与更高的艾滋病毒风险略有关联。青少年抑郁与更多的行为问题有关，但与艾滋病毒风险无关。因此，通常被认为是消极的养育方式实际上可能在一些社会地位较低的非洲裔美国家庭中起到保护作用。这强调了将家庭背景和青少年危险行为研究扩展到不同社会和种族群体的重要性。为不同的群体设计预防方案需要明确不同的养育方式在文化上的具体效果。(C) 2007年，霍沃斯出版社出版。版权所有。
The family system is integral to adolescent mental health and HIV risk. However, few studies have addressed family variables and adolescent outcomes among African American families. This study tested a longitudinal model of parenting, adolescent mental health, and adolescent HIV risk, among a community sample of low-income, urban African American families from the Collaborative HIV prevention and AdolescentMentalHealth Project (CHAMP). Consistent with general adolescent population data, we expected less parental monitoring, greater psychological control and less positive parenting to increase risk for adolescent depression and conduct problems. We hypothesized that these variables would in turn increase rates of HIV risk.We followed one hundred and thirty-four African American youth and their maternal caregivers as part of the CHAMP project. Study variables included: positive parenting, parental monitoring, psychological control, adolescent distress, conduct problems, and recent HIV risk. We examined the relationship among these variables via longitudinal path analysis.Age was strongly associated with increased adolescent HIV risk. Contrary to hypotheses, more parental psychological controlwas marginally associated with less HIV risk, while positive parenting was marginally associated with greater HIV risk. Adolescent depression was associated with more conduct problems, but unrelated to HIV risk. Thus, parenting practices generally considered negativemight actually be protective among some lower SES African-American families. This underscores the importance of extending studies of family context and adolescent risk behaviors to diverse social and ethnic groups. Designing prevention programs for diverse groups will require articulating culturally specific effects for different parenting practice. (C) 2007 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.