Economic Stress, Parenting, and Child Adjustment in Mexican American and European American Families

D Parke, Ross; Coltrane, Scott; Duffy, Sharon; Buriel, Raymond; Dennis, Jessica; Powers, Justina; French, Sabine; F Widaman, Keith

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00807.x

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Economic Stress, Parenting, and Child Adjustment in Mexican American and European American Families

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Ross D Parke

Scott Coltrane

Sharon Duffy

Abstract

Abstract To assess the impact of economic hardship on 111 European American and 167 Mexican American families and their 5th-grade (M age=11.4 years) children, a family stress model was evaluated. Structural equation analyses revealed that economic hardship was linked to indexes of economic pressure ...

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