Lei Man-Kit, Beach Steven R H
Department of Sociology, University of Georgia.
Department of Psychology and Center for Family Research, University of Georgia.
Justice Q. 2024;41(6):870-891. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2024.2332372. Epub 2024 Mar 25.
Protective parenting practices, including parental monitoring and establishing nurturing and supportive rules, are thought to affect the risk of children's involvement in delinquency. However, there has yet to be any direct test of this hypothesis using experimental data designed to test causality better. Data from 346 Black couples with an 11-year-old child were assigned randomly to Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) intervention or control condition. Results from traditional mediation models, causal mediation analysis, and the complier analysis indicated that the intervention had a significant indirect effect on youth delinquent behaviors and that effects on protective parenting mediated this effect. The results demonstrated that ProSAAF, which is designed to promote family communication, is effective in deterring delinquent behaviors among Black Americans who reside in resource-scarce communities by enhancing parenting practices.
保护性育儿行为，包括父母监督以及制定关爱和支持性的规则，被认为会影响儿童卷入犯罪行为的风险。然而，尚未使用旨在更好地检验因果关系的实验数据对这一假设进行直接检验。来自346对有一个11岁孩子的黑人夫妇的数据被随机分配到“保护强大非裔美国家庭”（ProSAAF）干预组或对照组。传统中介模型、因果中介分析和依从者分析的结果表明，该干预对青少年犯罪行为有显著的间接影响，且对保护性育儿的影响介导了这一效应。结果表明，旨在促进家庭沟通的ProSAAF通过加强育儿行为，在威慑居住在资源匮乏社区的美国黑人的犯罪行为方面是有效的。
