School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2021 Sep;49(7):2548-2568. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22493. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
This study explores how variations in maternal caregiver types may be associated with adolescents' internalized behaviors (i.e., depressive symptoms) and resources (i.e., attitudes toward delinquent behaviors and efficacious beliefs).
Using a sample of 375 African American youth from public housing in three large US cities, we used Latent Profile Analysis to identify various maternal caregiver classes. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess whether youth can be correctly classified into maternal caregiver classes based on their internalized behaviors.
Three maternal caregiver classes were identified. Results suggest youth living with high encouragement and high (supervision) maternal caregivers were associated with more conventional attitudes, higher self-efficacy, and lower depressive symptoms.
Findings highlight how maternal caregivers can influence the internalizing behaviors of African American youth in US public housing. Individual, community, and system-level interventions can be leveraged to support the impact of these maternal caregivers.
本研究探讨了母亲照顾者类型的变化如何与青少年的内化行为（即抑郁症状）和资源（即对犯罪行为的态度和有效信念）相关。
本研究使用来自美国三个大城市公共住房中的 375 名非裔美国青少年样本，采用潜在剖面分析来确定各种母亲照顾者类型。采用多项逻辑回归分析来评估青少年是否可以根据其内化行为正确分类到母亲照顾者类型中。
确定了三种母亲照顾者类型。结果表明，与生活在高鼓励和高（监督）母亲照顾者环境中的青少年相比，具有更传统的态度、更高的自我效能感和更低的抑郁症状。
研究结果强调了母亲照顾者如何影响美国公共住房中非裔美国青少年的内化行为。可以利用个人、社区和系统层面的干预措施来支持这些母亲照顾者的影响。
