Investigating the Relationship between Perceived Maternal AcceptanceRejection and the Psychological

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• Investigating the Relationship between Perceived
  Maternal Acceptance-Rejection and the
  Psychological Well-Being of African American
  Young Adults

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Background
Historical Overview of AA Fatherhood
BREADWINNER
STERN PATRIARCH
FREEMENSBUREAU
GENIAL PLAYMATE/ROLE MODEL
SEX-ROLE MODEL
CO-PARENT
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Background

• Importance of Topic
• Defines the specific contributions mothers have
  on a childs psychological Well-Being
• Promotes understanding of the impact that non
  present mothers have on child psychological
  Well-Being
• Provides a new way to conceptualize a mothers
  behavior in relation to childrens Well-Being.
• Recognizes need to increase the number of studies
  on topic, on this population, and this age group

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Theory
Theoretical tools used

• PARTheory, personality subtheory which seeks to
  explain main causes and consequences of parental
  nurturance as children perceive their
  relationship with their parent
• PARTheory looks at parental acceptance and
  rejection and how it affect childrens
  development, and follows them through adulthood.
• Parental acceptance-rejection construct the
• warmth dimension of parenting

Rohners,1986
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Study Aims

• How does perceived maternal nurturance affect the
  psychological well-being of African Americans
  emerging into adulthood?

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Hypothesis

• There is a positive correlation between perceived
  maternal acceptance and the psychological
  well-being of young adults.
• As perceived maternal warmth
• increases, the young adults
• psychological well-being will increase.

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The Results

• Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire
  (PARQ)
• Mean score, M37.1,SD12.93,n 228
• Findings Students experienced significantly
  lower levels of maternal rejection and higher
  levels of acceptance
• during adolescence

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The Results

• Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ)
• Mean score, M 120.78 , SD 25.80, n 189
• Findings Indicate that this sample population
  experienced a moderate level of self-reported
  well- being.

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The Results
Bi-variate correlation

• The correlation proves to be moderate, indicating
  
• that there is a relationship between perceived
• maternal acceptance and the psychological
  well-being

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level
(2-tailed).
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Results
Scatter Gram Provides a graphic view of
relationship that exist between mother
nurturance and psychological well-being

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Discussion

• Hypothesis
• Moderate positive relationship
• Relationship to PARTheory
• Parental relationships predictor of childs
  well-being (Rohners, 1986)
• Relationship to Theory
• Gecas Schwalbe
• Veneziano (2000)
• Brynum and Kotchick, 2006

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Discussion

• Limitations
• Generalizing results
• Cross-sectional study
• Sample of convenience
• Not causal relationship
• Ambiguity
• Future Research
• Maternal nurturance at different developmental
• stages and gender differences.

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