Supportive/conflictual family relations and depressive symptomatology: teenage mother and grandmother perspectives  

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Jackson, James S. ; Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard ; Antonucci, Toni C.

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Family Relations vol. 47 no. 04 (Oct. 1998), page 395-402.
Topik: depressive symptoms; family conflict; family support; mother-daughter relations; teenage mothers; grandmothers

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: F17 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The influences of supportive and conflictual mother-daughter relationships on depressive symptoms expressed by African American and White teenage mothers and grandmothers were examined. Interviews were conducted with 83 grandmother-teenage mother dyads to assess their individual perspectives of the quality of their relationship and their psychological well-being. Findings indicated that grandmothers assessed the mother-daughter relationship as more favorable than young mothers. African American teenage mothers were more likely than White mothers to report childrearing conflicts with grandmothers. Grandmothers, regardless of race, were more likely than teenage mothers to report less conflict around raising the young mothers' babies. Although racial differences were found in the number of depressive symptoms expressed among grandmothers, this finding did not hold when controlling for socioeconomic status. Similarly, the inverse relationship found between supportive maternal relations and depressive symptoms at the bivariate level of analysis was no longer important for predicting depressive symptoms among teenage mothers in the presence of conflictual mother-daughter relationships. Implications of these and other findings for future social network research and family interventions are discussed.

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