| Abstrakt: |
This article explores the relationship between stress in the parent-child relationship and successful pursuit of education and training activities for mothers of poor families of North Carolina. According to several previous researches, improvements in education, training, and family earnings are likely to advantage children, their mothers, and the quality of the parent-child relationship. There appears to be a significant link between parental well-being, child behavior problems, and economic advancement. The present investigation is guided by the assumption that mothers on welfare are motivated to improve their economic condition through enhanced education and training, but that personal and relational bathers can significantly inhibit their progress toward completing education and training goals. Subjects for this analysis consist of a subset of 365 individuals who participated in the longitudinal component of the Job Opportunity and Basic Skills (JOBS). To assess the influence of the level of stress in the parent-child relationship of the probability of successful completion of the human capital component activity engaged in by this group of JOBS participants, a two-stage probit analysis was performed. At the first stage dependent variable was regressed on participant demographic characteristics of age, race, number of children, and age of the youngest child. At the second stage the model introduces level of stress in the parent-child interaction as an independent variable alongside participants' demographic characteristics enunciated above. |
