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. 2024 Dec;74(3-4):210-226.
doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12758. Epub 2024 Jun 4.

Parenting practices and trajectories of proactive coping assets among emerging adult Black men

Christopher C Collins  1 , Elizabeth Kwon  2 , Steven M Kogan  1
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Parenting practices and trajectories of proactive coping assets among emerging adult Black men

Christopher C Collins et al. Am J Community Psychol. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

Positive youth development (PYD) frameworks suggest that a critical response to investigating the challenges young Black men living in resource poor communities experience involves identifying contextual resources in young men's lives and personal assets that promote success. The following study examines heterogeneity in proactive coping assets trajectories, parental practices as predictors of developmental trajectories, and associated outcomes of each trajectory. The study sample consisted of Black emerging adult men living in rural Georgia (N = 504). At baseline, men were between the ages of 19 and 22 (Mage = 20.29; SD = 1.10). At wave four, the participants' mean age was 27.67 (SD = 1.39). Results of growth mixture modeling from waves 1 to 3 discerned three developmental trajectory classes of emerging adults' proactive coping assets: a high and increasing class (n = 247, 49%), a low and stable class (n = 212, 42%), and a moderate and decreasing class (n = 45, 9%). Trajectory classes were linked to baseline levels of parental support, coaching, and expectations. Analysis revealed that parental support and parental coaching predicted proactive coping asset trajectory class identification. Links were then investigated between emerging adults' proactive coping asset trajectory classes and wave four physical health, depression, and alcohol use. Results revealed significant associations between class identification, alcohol use, and physical health. Study findings provide evidence supporting the impact of parenting on emerging adult Black men, underscoring the need to expand resources that support parenting and emerging adult relationships.

Keywords: adolescence; emerging adults; family; growth mixture model; health; positive youth development; rural Black men; substance use.

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Three‐class solution of linear growth mixture model.
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