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Family Stress, Social Support, Violence, and Sons' BehaviorDepartment of Nursing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Although the low income, female-headed, inner-city family has been repeatedly linked to child behavior problems, thefamnily processes related to childmisbehavior in this high risk group have not been identified. In a group of predominantly African American inner-city low-income mothers who lived alone with their children, the relationships between family stress, social support, mothers'conflict resolution tactics, and sons'behavior were examined using thefamily stress adaptation model, and potential nursing interventions were identified. The sample of low-income, inner-city mother-alonefamilies reported morefamily stress and less social support than normative White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families. Family violence rates did not differ between the sample and nationally representative normative groups. Thirty-nine percent of sons, referred to the study because of school difficulties, were reported to have behavior problems requiring additional assessment. Analysis confirmed the fit of sample data to the model and identifiedfamily stress as the best site for nursing intervention for these high-risk families.
Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 16, No. 2,
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