"""A mother's gotta' do what she can"": neighborhood influences on the parenting strategies of mothers raising preadolescent children in high-risk environments"

This research examines the parenting strategies of low-income African American caregivers of preadolescents in high-risk, low resource neighborhoods that promote their positive youth development. Adopting a family resilience approach and utilizing multiple qualitative methods (interviews, photos, drawings, neighborhood observations) and demographic data, I argue that parenting strategies are responses to neighborhood social processes and economic characteristics outlined in collective socialization, collective efficacy, social control, epidemic, and neighborhood resource frameworks. I identified three strategies including protective measures, promotional values, and promotional behaviors that maternal caregivers used to facilitate positive preadolescent development in the face of multiple neighborhood barriers. The research findings add to theoretical discussions of the relationship between neighborhood context and parenting strategies, and suggest contextually-relevant intervention and prevention initiatives that improve the lives of inner-city families and children.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2013

Author dc:creator

• Taylor, Mona

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jarrett, Robin L.
• Aber, Mark S.
• Allen, Nicole E.
• Carter-Black, Janet
• Miller, Peggy J.

• parenting strategies
• neighborhoods
• African American preadolescents
• qualitative methods

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2013 Mona Taylor

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/45656

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/45656