Exploring the Role of Racial Socialization and Media in Black Youth's Sociopolitical Development

该奖项是美国国家科学基金会社会、行为和经济（SBE）科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划和SBE发展科学计划的一部分。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界、工业界或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行为期两年的培训，并鼓励博士后进行独立研究。美国国家科学基金会寻求促进科学界各阶层的科学家，包括那些未被充分代表的群体的科学家，参与其研究项目和活动；博士后阶段被认为是实现这一目标的一个重要的专业发展阶段。每个博士后必须解决各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在宾西法尼亚大学霍华德·史蒂文森的赞助下。密歇根大学的里亚娜·安德森和马修·迪默，这个博士后奖学金奖支持一位早期职业科学家，研究与文化相关的父母行为和媒体在促进黑人青年意识和行动中所起的作用，以对抗种族不平等。有限的心理学研究调查了影响黑人青年社会政治发展（SPD）的因素，以及发展对导致不平等的制度的认识和参与行动的过程。黑人父母向黑人青年传递的关于种族的信息（例如，种族社会化）很可能会影响黑人青年在种族问题上的社会政治行动。种族正义运动利用媒体推动关于社会中普遍存在的种族主义的主流话语。因此，年轻人可以直接利用媒体上的社会政治内容来告知他们的社民党。此外，年轻人和父母都可能使用社会政治媒体内容来告知他们关于种族的对话（例如，种族社会化）。通过三项研究，本项目试图阐明种族社会化和媒体在黑人青年中的作用。社民党。该项目借鉴了SPD新兴的社会文化理论，采用了定量和定性的方法。研究一使用定性调查来研究黑人青年如何描述他们与种族相关的社会政治信仰和行为，以及他们认为哪些因素对他们的社民党有影响。研究二使用定量调查来检验父母种族社会化与黑人青年种族相关SPD指标之间的假设途径。研究三使用定性调查来检查黑人父母和孩子在多大程度上利用媒体内容来告知他们关于种族问题的对话，以及父母是否带着种族社会化的意图与孩子一起观看媒体内容。总的来说，这些研究整合了SPD和种族社会化的理论，以阐明影响黑人青年如何理解和应对对其发展有负面影响的社会政治力量的因素。这项工作的结果将为黑人青年的家庭和社区种族社会化和社会发展干预的发展和加强提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program and SBE's Developmental Sciences Program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Howard Stevenson at the University of Pennsylvania and the mentorship of Drs. Riana Anderson and Matthew Diemer at the University of Michigan, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating the role of culturally-relevant parental practices and media in promoting Black youth's awareness of and actions to combat racial inequality. Limited psychological research has investigated the factors that shape Black youth's sociopolitical development (SPD), the process of developing an awareness of and engaging in action to address the systems that contribute to inequality. It is likely that the messages that Black parents send to Black youth about race (e.g., racial socialization) inform Black youth's sociopolitical actions regarding issues of race. Racial justice movements have used media to drive mainstream discourse about the pervasiveness of racism in society. Thus, youth may draw directly on sociopolitical content in media to inform their SPD. Furthermore, youth and parents alike may use sociopolitical media content to inform the conversations that they have about race (e.g., racial socialization). Across three studies, this project seeks to elucidate the role of racial socialization and media in Black youth?s SPD.Drawing on a nascent sociocultural theory of SPD, this project employs quantitative and qualitative methods. Study one uses qualitative inquiry to examine how Black youth describe their race-related sociopolitical beliefs and behaviors and what factors they identify as being influential in their SPD. Study two uses quantitative inquiry to test hypothesized pathways between parental racial socialization and indicators of Black youth's race-related SPD. Study three uses qualitative inquiry to examine the extent which Black parents and children draw upon media content to inform their dialogue about racial issues and whether parents watch media content with their children with the intention of racial socialization. Collectively, these studies integrate theories on SPD and racial socialization to elucidate the factors that shape how Black youth understand and respond to sociopolitical forces that have negative implications for their development. The findings of this work will inform the development and enhancement of family and community-based racial socialization and SPD interventions for Black youth.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.