Published online April 3, 2006
PEDIATRICS Vol. 117 No. 4 April 2006, pp. 1329-1338 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-1784)
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Do Parenting and the Home Environment, Maternal Depression, Neighborhood, and Chronic Poverty Affect Child Behavioral Problems Differently in Different Racial-Ethnic Groups?

Lee M. Pachter, DOa, Peggy Auinger, MSb, Ray Palmer, PhDc and Michael Weitzman, MDb

a Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut
b American Academy of Pediatrics Center for Child Health Research and University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York
c Department of Family Medicine, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

OBJECTIVE. To determine whether the processes through which parenting practices, maternal depression, neighborhood, and chronic poverty affect child behavioral problems are similar or different in minority and nonminority children in the United States.

METHODS. Data from 884 white, 538 black, and 404 Latino families with children who were 6 to 9 years of age in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were analyzed. The outcome, child behavioral problems, was measured using the Behavior Problems Index externalizing and internalizing subscales. The effects of chronic poverty, neighborhood, maternal depression, and parenting on the outcome were analyzed using multigroup structural equation modeling.

RESULTS. Chronic poverty affected child behavioral problems indirectly through the other variables, and parenting practices had direct effects in each racial/ethnic group. The effects of maternal depression were partially mediated through parenting in the white and Latino samples but were direct and unmediated through parenting practices in the black sample. Neighborhood effects were present in the white and black samples but were not significant for the Latino sample.

CONCLUSIONS. Chronic poverty, neighborhood, maternal depression, and parenting practices have effects on child behavioral problems in white, black, and Latino children, but the processes and mechanisms through which they exert their effects differ among the groups. The differences may be related to social stratification mechanisms as well as sociocultural differences in family and childrearing practices.

Key Words: child behavior and development • behavioral problems • minority groups • parenting • maternal depression • neighborhood effects • poverty • racial/ethnic groups • disparities

Abbreviations: NLSY—National Longitudinal Survey of Youth • HOME-SF—Home Observation of the Environment-Short Form • SEM—structural equation modeling • CFI—Comparative Fit Index • RMSEA—Root Mean Square Error of Approximation • CFA—confirmatory factor analysis

Accepted Sep 14, 2005.


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