African American Parents' Beliefs about Race and Discrimination, Socialization Practices, and Their Adolescents' Socioemotional Functioning

非裔美国父母对种族和歧视的看法、社会化实践及其青少年的社会情感功能

• 批准号: 1407587
• 负责人: Stephanie Rowley
• 金额: $ 10.65万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1407587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: African; American; Parents; Beliefs; about

The goal of this postdoctoral fellowship award is to facilitate the professional development of a young scientist. In this project, the PI seeks to understand the nature of African American parents' beliefs about race and discrimination and how those beliefs impact their emotion- and race-related socialization and their adolescent's socioemotional functioning. This research highlights the importance of utilizing a mixed methods approach to understand how parenting patterns relate to the meaning-making around race in the socialization agenda of African American parents. The research audience gains a better understanding of how certain parenting patterns contribute to a variety of adolescent socioemotional skills, particularly in racially integrated academic settings. The research also examines a diverse sample of African American parents, allowing for the identification of pattern similarities in parenting experiences, despite socioeconomic background. Findings are disseminated among the scientific community, scholars, and community stakeholders and will advance the current literature on the importance of both general and race-specific parenting processing in African American families. In addition, this research broadens the participation of underrepresented groups in social science research by involving minority undergraduate and graduate students as research assistants. Through data collection and management, undergraduate and graduate students gain skills in conducting survey research, interviewing, and they also receive the opportunity to present the findings from this research at national conferences. These opportunities help prepare minority students for later success in the pursuit of graduate degrees and academic careers.Several models of parental socialization suggest that parents' beliefs are important for both parenting behaviors and also for children's outcomes. Currently, there is little empirical work examining the role of parental beliefs associated with race and discrimination in guiding general and race-specific socialization and subsequent relations with adolescent competence in African American families. This line of inquiry is particularly relevant given the history of African Americans being targets of racial discrimination and parents being faced with the challenge of raising their children to be successful in a society in which their racial group is often devalued and made victims of individual/institutional racism and race-related violence. Further, although there is growing scholarship on examining racial socialization among African American families, there is little consideration of the role of emotion-related processes surrounding the experience of and preparation for race-related experiences (e.g., racial discrimination). We know racial socialization contributes to adolescents' overall well-being and ability to cope with discrimination, yet it is still unclear how race-related socialization processes work independently of and/or jointly with other general socialization processes (e.g., emotion socialization) that are known to have great impact on children's socioemotional competence. The current study builds on the principal investigator's previous work by using a mixed-methods approach with both interview and questionnaire data to examine the content of parents' beliefs about race and discrimination, the contribution of these beliefs to their emotion and racial socialization practices, and the existence of parent profiles by their beliefs and socialization behaviors. Finally, parents' profiles are examined as predictors of their adolescents' socioemotional functioning. The participants are 300 African American parents, their 6th grade children, and the adolescents' teachers. Families are followed for three years. In year 1, parents participate in semi-structured interviews and students and teachers will complete surveys. In subsequent years, parents, students, and teachers complete online surveys. The sample is drawn from three racially and economically diverse schools in Southeastern Michigan. The current study contributes to theory and research seeking to understand how parents' beliefs about race and discrimination play a role in their parenting strategies and in their children's development. The framework being developed in this research will inform future research and interventions aimed at understanding and fostering parental strategies that contribute to the positive development of African American youth.

该博士后奖学金的目标是促进年轻科学家的专业发展。在这个项目中，PI试图了解非裔美国父母对种族和歧视的信念的本质，以及这些信念如何影响他们的情感和种族相关的社会化以及青少年的社会情感功能。这项研究强调了利用混合方法的重要性，以了解如何养育模式与意义，使周围的种族在非洲裔美国人的父母的社会化议程。研究受众获得更好地了解某些养育模式有助于各种青少年的社会情感技能，特别是在种族融合的学术环境。该研究还考察了非洲裔美国人父母的不同样本，允许识别模式相似的育儿经验，尽管社会经济背景。研究结果在科学界，学者和社区利益相关者之间传播，并将推动目前的文献在非裔美国人家庭中一般和种族特定的养育过程的重要性。此外，这项研究扩大了代表性不足的群体参与社会科学研究，让少数民族本科生和研究生担任研究助理。通过数据收集和管理，本科生和研究生获得进行调查研究，采访的技能，他们也有机会在全国会议上提出这项研究的结果。这些机会有助于少数民族学生为以后取得研究生学位和学术事业的成功做好准备。父母社会化的几种模式表明，父母的信念对父母的行为和子女的结果都很重要。目前，很少有实证研究的作用，父母的信仰与种族和歧视的指导一般和种族特定的社会化和随后的关系与青少年的能力在非洲裔美国人家庭。鉴于非裔美国人历来是种族歧视的目标，父母面临着在一个其种族群体往往被贬低并成为个人/机构种族主义和与种族有关的暴力的受害者的社会中抚养子女取得成功的挑战，这一调查路线特别相关。此外，尽管越来越多的学者研究非洲裔美国人家庭中的种族社会化，但很少考虑与种族相关的经历和准备相关的情感过程的作用（例如，种族歧视）。我们知道种族社会化有助于青少年的整体福祉和科普歧视的能力，但仍不清楚种族相关的社会化过程如何独立于其他一般社会化过程（例如，情绪社会化），这是众所周知的有很大的影响儿童的社会情绪能力。目前的研究建立在主要研究者以前的工作，通过使用混合方法的方法与访谈和问卷调查数据，以检查父母的种族和歧视的信念的内容，这些信念的贡献，他们的情绪和种族社会化的做法，并存在父母的个人资料，他们的信念和社会化行为。最后，父母的配置文件进行检查，作为预测他们的青少年的社会情绪功能。参与者是300名非裔美国人的父母，他们的六年级的孩子，和青少年的老师。家庭被跟踪三年。在第一年，家长参加半结构化面试，学生和教师将完成调查。在随后的几年里，家长，学生和教师完成在线调查。样本来自密歇根州东南部的三所种族和经济多样化的学校。目前的研究有助于理论和研究，试图了解父母对种族和歧视的信念如何在他们的养育策略和孩子的发展中发挥作用。在这项研究中正在开发的框架将告知未来的研究和干预措施，旨在了解和促进父母的战略，有助于非洲裔美国青年的积极发展。