The Complexity of Support
The Impact of Family Structure and Provisional Support on African American and White Adolescent Mothers' Well‐Being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11054579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia R Henly (0000-0002-4657-8639, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 629-655 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1023/a:1024634917076 |
| PMID | 9485577 |
| OpenAlex | W209805371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 64 |
The importance of social support to the well‐being of adolescent parents is a frequently discussed topic in the teen parenting literature. However, the meaning and conceptualization of social support varies across study and the heterogeneity within the teen parent population is often overlooked. In an effort to understand its role more precisely, the present study defined support both in terms of its structural and provision components, and examined the association of these components with both perceived psychological and behavioral measures of maternal well‐being for a sample of white and African American teen mothers. Specifically, the relative contribution of household structure and provisional social support to the well‐being of a sample of 107 African American and 146 white teen mothers was measured respectively. Results indicate great variability in the structural and provisional support adolescent mothers receive, regardless of race. Independent of other effects, provisional supports are more strongly associated with maternal well‐being than is family structure. Further, the impact of these different types of support varies by race
African american · Association (psychology) · Conceptualization · Developmental psychology · Family support · Health psychology · Population · Public health · Race (biology) · Social support · Sociology · White (mutation) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Demography · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Place, face, space
Teen Mothers’ Family Support and Adult Identity in the Emerging Adulthood
Teen Birth Across Generations Among Non-Latino Whites and African–American Women
Exploring Variation in Teenage Mothers' and Fathers' Educational Attainment
Research Review
I Just Let Him Have His Way”
Role Conflict and Self‐Efficacy Among Employed Parents
Explaining the Early Development and Health of Teen Mothers’ Children 1
Younger and Older African American Adolescent Mothers’ Relationships with Their Mothers and Female Peers
Teen Mothers Parenting their Own Teen Offspring
The Roles of Living Arrangements and Household Resources in Single Mothers' Employment
Social Embeddedness and Psychological Well‐Being Among African Americans and Whites
The Multitextured Lives of Women of Color
Adolescent and adult low‐income mothers
Support relationships and teen mothers’ school retention at one‐year postpartum
Multigenerational coresidence and welfare policy
Making the Best of a Bad Situation
Predictors and Consequences of Adolescents' Norms Against Teenage Pregnancy
Black and white self-esteem
Black wealth, white wealth
Risking the Future
Adolescent Mothers in Later Life
Effects of Stress and Social Supports on Mother-Child Interactions in Single- and Two-Parent Families
Going beyond social support
Family Structure and the Mental Health of Children
The New American Grandparent
The Truly Disadvantaged
Structures and Processes of Social Support
Developments in Research on Black Families
Socioeconomic status and psychological distress
Social Services and the Ethnic Community
Perceptions of social support, receipt of supportive behaviors, and locus of control as moderators of the effects of chronic stress
Distinctions between social support concepts, measures, and models
Support network characteristics associated with support satisfaction and perceived support
Social support, life stress, and psychological adjustment
Social support measurement
Coping with ecological transitions by black families
Components of change in adolescent fertility, 1971–1979
Changing living arrangements
Adolescents as mothers
Psychological correlates of teenage motherhood
Teenage Parenthood
Limitations of Social Support
Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era
Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era
Social Support and Adolescent Mothers
Black Neighbors
The Black extended family
Sex Codes and Family Life among Poor Inner-city Youths
Interrelations of social support measures
Teenage childbearing as an alternative life-course strategy in multigeneration black families
The meaning and measurement of social support
Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis
Risking the Future
Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements
Absent Does Not Equal Uninvolved
Kin Networks, Race, and Family Structure
The Long-Term Evolution of the Family Structure of Teenage and Older Mothers
Support Systems after Divorce
Choice and Circumstance
Surviving the Welfare System
Teenage Mothers in Nuclear and Extended Households
Welfare Receipt Among Black and White Adolescent Mothers
The Incidence of Extended Households Among Middle-Aged Black and White Women
The Significance of Social Context
The Impact of Social Status, Family Structure, and Neighborhood on the Fertility of Black Adolescents
Determinants of Extended Household Structure
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2022 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |