TY - JOUR
T1 - Transmission of Work Ethic in African-American Families and Its Links with Adolescent Adjustment
AU - Lee, Bora
AU - Padilla, Jenny
AU - McHale, Susan M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01-HD32336) to Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter, Co-Principal Investigators. A portion of this paper was presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Child Development in Philadelphia, PA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - A strong work ethic generally has positive implications for achievements in work and school settings, but we know little about how it develops. This study aimed to describe the intra-familial transmission of work ethic and the associations between work ethic and adjustment in African American youth. Mothers, fathers, and two adolescent siblings (Mage = 14.1 years) in 158 families were interviewed on two occasions. Path models revealed that fathers’ work ethic was positively linked with older siblings’ work ethic, which in turn was linked with more positive youth adjustment in the domains of school functioning and externalizing and internalizing problems. Moreover, the results indicated that the work ethics of older siblings, but not parents, was linked to those of younger siblings. The discussion focuses on the importance of African American fathers and siblings in youth adjustment and how work ethic may promote positive development.
AB - A strong work ethic generally has positive implications for achievements in work and school settings, but we know little about how it develops. This study aimed to describe the intra-familial transmission of work ethic and the associations between work ethic and adjustment in African American youth. Mothers, fathers, and two adolescent siblings (Mage = 14.1 years) in 158 families were interviewed on two occasions. Path models revealed that fathers’ work ethic was positively linked with older siblings’ work ethic, which in turn was linked with more positive youth adjustment in the domains of school functioning and externalizing and internalizing problems. Moreover, the results indicated that the work ethics of older siblings, but not parents, was linked to those of younger siblings. The discussion focuses on the importance of African American fathers and siblings in youth adjustment and how work ethic may promote positive development.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-015-0391-0
DO - 10.1007/s10964-015-0391-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 26608056
AN - SCOPUS:84948134270
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 45
SP - 2278
EP - 2291
JO - Journal of youth and adolescence
JF - Journal of youth and adolescence
IS - 11
ER -