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Author: Burnett, Marketa
Resulting in 1 citation.
1. Cooper, Shauna M.
Metzger, Isha
Georgeson, Alexis
Golden, Alexandrea R.
Burnett, Marketa
White, C. Nicole
Communicative Support and Parental Knowledge among African American Residential Fathers: Longitudinal Associations with Adolescent Substance Use
Journal of Child and Family Studies 28,12 (December 2019): 3433-3445.
Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-019-01525-2
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Black Family; Fathers, Presence; Parent-Child Interaction; Parental Influences; Parenting Skills/Styles; Substance Use

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Objectives: The current study examines how African American residential fathers' communicative support and parental knowledge influence adolescents' substance use across a 3-year period. Additionally, this study examines whether these associations vary for African American boys and girls.

Method: Participants were 665 African American adolescents (M = 13.1 years of age; 49% female) from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth-1997. All adolescents resided with their fathers or father figures. Individual and parallel process growth curve analyses examined how communicative support and parental knowledge were associated with initial levels and rate of change in African American adolescents' substance use.

Results: Although African American girls exhibited higher initial levels of substance use, there was greater growth in boys' substance use over time. Analyses indicated that residential fathers' parental knowledge was associated with substance use over time for both girls and boys. Findings also revealed that demographic factors more strongly predicted father-daughter relational characteristics.

Bibliography Citation
Cooper, Shauna M., Isha Metzger, Alexis Georgeson, Alexandrea R. Golden, Marketa Burnett and C. Nicole White. "Communicative Support and Parental Knowledge among African American Residential Fathers: Longitudinal Associations with Adolescent Substance Use." Journal of Child and Family Studies 28,12 (December 2019): 3433-3445.