Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Parenting Stress
2013/09/01 by Kei Nomaguchi, Amanda N. House · 144 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Early Childhood Education and Development #Ethnic group #Political science #Psychology #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
paper · open access · doi:10.1177/0022146513498511
published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(3), 386-404 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2013/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Abstract
Although researchers contend that racial-ethnic minorities experience more stress than whites, knowledge of racial-ethnic disparities in parenting stress is limited. Using a pooled time-series analysis of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (n = 11,324), we examine racial-ethnic differences in maternal parenting stress, with a focus on structural and cultural explanations and variations by nativity and child age. In kindergarten, black mothers, albeit U.S.-born only, report more parenting stress than white mothers due to structural disadvantages and authoritarian parenting values. The black-white gap increases from kindergarten to third grade, and in third grade, U.S.-born black mothers' higher stress than white mothers' persists after controlling for structural and parenting factors. Hispanic and Asian mothers, albeit foreign-born only, report more stress than white mothers at both ages due to structural disadvantages and authoritarian values. Despite structural disadvantages, American Indian mothers report less stress.
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