Concurrent Sessions 4 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

210-01: Complexity and Emotional Content of Parents' Schemas of Their Children
Ashleigh Engbretson

210-02: Parenting Profiles and Children's Delay of Gratification in the Context of Poverty
Ye Rang Park

210-03: Profiles of Parents' Psychosocial Functioning in Families Living in Poverty
Christina N. Kim

210-04: Mothering While Black: A Qualitative Exploration of the Quality of the Relationship in a Cohort of African American Mother-Child Dyads Living in Poverty
Vivian L. Tamkin

Discussant: Robert L. Nix
Chair: Christina N. Kim

Summary
The aim of this symposium is to understand resilient parenting in the context of poverty from four different perspectives. The first study demonstrates that parenting profile characterized by high levels of learning support and teamwork is related to growth in children's delay of gratification. The second study highlights the significance of complexity and emotional content of parental schemas in predicting parents' positive interactions with their children and support for their children's learning. The third study found that the risk of depression on parenting behaviors and children's competence was only present when parent agreeableness and conscientiousness were also low. The fourth study uses qualitative analyses to examine the ways in which African American parents are emotionally and behaviorally present within the parent-child dyad.

Objectives
-- To identify constellations of specific parenting behaviors that represent resilient parenting
-- To identify parents' psychosocial functioning characteristics that predict resilient parenting
-- To examine relations among resilient parenting and child outcomes

Subject Codes: parenting, resilience, family relations
Population Codes: low income, early childhood, diverse but not representative
Method and Approach Codes: latent variable modeling, strength-based, mixed-methodology