TY - JOUR
T1 - System Justification, Mental Health, and Behavior Among Disadvantaged Mothers and Their Children
AU - Godfrey, Erin B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health under the Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (#F31MH082535) and by the American Psychological Foundation of the American Psychological Association under the Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Fellowship. I especially thank Hiro Yoshikawa, John Jost, and Larry Aber for their considerable support of this work, and Diane Hughes and Carola Suarez-Orozco for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - Integrating social psychological research with work in child development, this study explored relationships between system justification (Jost & Banaji, 1994), maternal mental health, and child externalizing behavior among low-income immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities. Dominican, Mexican, and African American families (N = 239) were assessed when children were 14, 24, and 36 months old. Structural equation modeling was used to explore longitudinal relationships between maternal system justification and mental health and associations with child behavior. Earlier mental health was negatively related to later system justification and system justification was negatively related to children's externalizing behavior. Implications for system justification theory, child development, and immigration are discussed.
AB - Integrating social psychological research with work in child development, this study explored relationships between system justification (Jost & Banaji, 1994), maternal mental health, and child externalizing behavior among low-income immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities. Dominican, Mexican, and African American families (N = 239) were assessed when children were 14, 24, and 36 months old. Structural equation modeling was used to explore longitudinal relationships between maternal system justification and mental health and associations with child behavior. Earlier mental health was negatively related to later system justification and system justification was negatively related to children's externalizing behavior. Implications for system justification theory, child development, and immigration are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/01973533.2013.803965
DO - 10.1080/01973533.2013.803965
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880323402
SN - 0197-3533
VL - 35
SP - 382
EP - 395
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
IS - 4
ER -