1-089 - Broadening the Parenting Lens: Considering Ethnic Minority Parents in Current Parenting Models

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

The presence of ethnic minority families in parenting research has increased over the past 20 years in response to calls to consider factors that impact the nature of parenting in many ethnic minority families (Garcia Coll, Meyer, & Brillon, 1995; Frabutt, 1999). However, as our samples have diversified, there has been little progress in broadening parenting models and theories originally conceptualized for middle class, European American families. The four papers presented in this symposium challenge some of the current parenting models across several parenting domains: global parenting dimensions, prosocial development support, and emotion socialization. Paper 1 finds that both racial and residential factors may have consequence for the expression of general parenting practices in a sample of low-income Black and White parents. Paper 2 uses a person-centered approach to distinguish four parenting profiles among African American fathers, highlighting the need to additionally consider father’s level of engagement in Baumrind’s parenting styles framework. Paper 3 challenges currently dominant models of children’s prosocial development and motivation with data from US Mexican-heritage families, providing evidence that by including children in mature productive endeavors from an early age children continue to contribute eagerly to household work. Paper 4 challenges Gottman and colleagues’ (1996) Meta Emotion Theory by identifying four clusters of parenting based on parents’ beliefs about children’s emotions in a sample of African American, European American, and Lumbee American Indian parents. These four papers investigate important factors related to race and culture while pushing forward both classic and modern parenting models.

Sub Unit

• Parenting & Parent-Child Relationships

Chair

• Fantasy T. Lozada, University of Michigan

Individual Presentations

• In the eye of the Beholder: Reporter Differences in Low-Income Parenting Practices - Presenting Author: Riana Elyse Anderson, University of Virginia; Sam Portnow, University of Virginia; Saida Hussain, University of Virginia; Melvin N Wilson, Univ of Virginia; Daniel S. Shaw, Univ of Pittsburgh; Thomas J Dishion, Arizona State University

• Parenting Quality and Quantity: A Person-Centered Approach to Black Married Fathers’ Paternal Involvement - Presenting Author: Tamarie Macon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Cultural Variation in How Parents Support Children’s Development of Prosocial Collaborative Initiative - Presenting Author: Andrew D Coppens, University of California, Santa Cruz; Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Revisiting Meta Emotion Theory: Latent Clusters of Parents’ Emotion-Related Beliefs across Three American Ethnicities - Presenting Author: Fantasy T. Lozada, University of Michigan; Ashley B Craig, N/A; Amy G Halberstadt, North Carolina State University; Rebecca L Stelter, innovation Research & Training (iRT)