OBJECTIVE This study examined whether a family-focused prevention program for African American families could buffer the negative effect of perceived financial strain on protective parent-child interactions and thereby reduce the indirect effect of financial strain on youth conduct problems. METHOD Three hundred and forty-six African American couples with an early adolescent child (M age = 10.9 years at Wave 1 [W1]) participated. Families were randomly assigned to the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) prevention program or to a no-treatment control condition and provided data prerandomization (W1) and postintervention, Wave 2 (W2), 9.4 months after W1. Youth and both parents reported family financial strain at W1 and protective parent-child interactions at W1 and W2. Youth reported their conduct problems at W1 and W2. Hypotheses were tested using moderated mediation analyses. RESULTS ProSAAF significantly moderated the negative effect of youth-reported financial strain on changes in protective parenting interactions such that financial strain was not significantly associated with changes in protective parenting among the intervention group, thus reducing the indirect effect of financial strain on increases in youth conduct problems among this group. Parent-reported financial strain was not significantly associated with changes in protective parenting in either condition, precluding the potential for stress buffering intervention effects. CONCLUSIONS The ProSAAF prevention program buffered the negative effect of youth-reported financial strain on protective parenting interactions and reduced its indirect effect on youth conduct problems. These findings suggest that family-focused prevention has the potential to promote resilience among African American youth perceiving family financial strain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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以家庭为中心的预防可以缓冲经济压力对育儿互动的影响，减少非裔美国家庭的青少年行为问题。

目的 本研究探讨了针对非裔美国家庭的以家庭为中心的预防计划是否可以缓冲感知到的经济压力对保护性亲子互动的负面影响，从而减少经济压力对青少年行为问题的间接影响。方法 346 对带有早期青春期孩子（M 年龄 = 10.9 岁，第 1 波 [W1]）的非裔美国夫妇参加。家庭被随机分配到保护强大的非洲裔美国人家庭 (ProSAAF) 预防计划或无治疗控制条件下，并在 W1 后 9.4 个月提供数据随机化前 (W1) 和干预后第 2 波 (W2)。青少年和父母双方都报告了第 1 周的家庭经济压力以及第 1 周和第 2 周的保护性亲子互动。青少年报告了他们在 W1 和 W2 的行为问题。假设使用适度的中介分析进行测试。结果 ProSAAF 显着缓和了青少年报告的财务压力对保护性养育互动变化的负面影响，因此财务压力与干预组中保护性养育的变化没有显着相关性，从而减少了财务压力对青少年行为增加的间接影响这个群体中的问题。父母报告的财务压力与任何一种情况下保护性养育的变化都没有显着相关性，从而排除了压力缓冲干预效果的可能性。结论 ProSAAF 预防计划缓冲了青少年报告的经济压力对保护性育儿互动的负面影响，并减少了其对青少年行为问题的间接影响。这些研究结果表明，以家庭为中心的预防有可能提高非裔美国青年感受到家庭经济压力的复原力。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。