Parental and Friend Support Among Black Adolescents with Low Socioeconomic Status: Independent and Interactive Relations with Mental Health

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

Rachel Chiu
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Zidi Mu
Vanderbilt University
Hee Moon
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Veronica Passarelli
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Jungwon Kim
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Edith Chen
Northwestern University
Edith Chen
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Phoebe Lam
Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

We examined parental and friend support among low socioeconomic status Black adolescents. We found that high parental support alone correlated with reduced depression and anxiety symptoms while friend support alone had no correlation with symptoms. However, the combination of high parental support and high friend support yielded the lowest symptoms.

Psychopathology

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Parental and Friend Support Among Black Adolescents with Low Socioeconomic Status: Independent and Interactive Relations with Mental Health

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