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

该奖项是NSF的社会，行为和经济（SBE）科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划和SBE的发展科学计划的一部分。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业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的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在宾夕法尼亚大学的霍华德史蒂文森的赞助下，在密歇根大学的里亚纳安德森和马修·迪默博士的指导下，这个博士后奖学金支持一个早期的职业科学家调查文化相关的父母的做法和媒体在促进黑人青年的意识和行动中的作用，以打击种族不平等。有限的心理学研究调查了塑造黑人青年的社会政治发展（SPD）的因素，发展意识和参与行动的过程，以解决导致不平等的制度。很可能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）告知黑人青年的社会政治行动有关的种族问题。种族正义运动利用媒体推动关于种族主义在社会中普遍存在的主流话语。因此，青年可以直接利用媒体的社会政治内容来宣传他们的社会民主党。此外，青少年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，该项目旨在阐明种族社会化和媒体在黑人青年中的作用？本研究以一种新兴的社会文化社会发展理论为基础，采用定量和定性的方法。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有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SPD有影响。研究二使用定量调查来测试父母的种族社会化和黑人青年的种族相关的SPD指标之间的假设途径。研究三采用定性调查，以探讨黑人父母和儿童利用媒体内容，告知他们的种族问题的对话，以及父母是否观看媒体内容与他们的孩子的种族社会化的意图的程度。总的来说，这些研究整合了社会民主党和种族社会化理论，以阐明塑造黑人青年如何理解和应对对其发展产生负面影响的社会政治力量的因素。这项工作的结果将通知发展和加强家庭和社区为基础的种族社会化和SPD干预黑人youth.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.