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ArticleJustice quarterly : JQ2024

Testing Whether Protective Parenting is a Causal Mediator of Intervention Effects on Decreased Delinquency Using a Randomized Prevention Trial.

Man-Kit Lei, Steven R H Beach

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  1. Relationship enhancement protects against relationship-quality-associated weathering among Black adults in romantic partner relationships.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025
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2 authors.

Man-Kit LeiDepartment of Sociology, University of Georgia.ORCID 0000-0002-7757-6548
Steven R H BeachDepartment of Psychology and Center for Family Research, University of Georgia.

Funding

Research Support CoreP50DA051361 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI EHRLICH, KATHERINE BABCOCK · 2020 to 2024
$9.7M
Using a Randomized Prevention Trial to Understand the Health Benefits of Supportive Couple Relationships among Rural African American AdultsR01AG059260 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI BEACH, STEVEN R · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Home-based Prevention for African American Families in Rural CommunitiesR01HD069439 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI BEACH, STEVEN R · 2012 to 2016
$2.6M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG059260NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD069439NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA051361
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protective parenting practices, including parental monitoring and establishing nurturing and supportive rules, are thought to affect the risk of children's involvement in delinquency. However, there has yet to be any direct test of this hypothesis using experimental data designed to test causality better. Data from 346 Black couples with an 11-year-old child were assigned randomly to Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) intervention or control condition. Results from traditional mediation models, causal mediation analysis, and the complier analysis indicated that the intervention had a significant indirect effect on youth delinquent behaviors and that effects on protective parenting mediated this effect. The results demonstrated that ProSAAF, which is designed to promote family communication, is effective in deterring delinquent behaviors among Black Americans who reside in resource-scarce communities by enhancing parenting practices.

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causal mediating analysiscomplier average causal effect modelingdelinquencyfamily-centered preventive programProtective parenting

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PMID39611046
PMCPMC11601125

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