African American Racial Identity: Across Generations

描述(调查人员摘要)：拟议的研究检查种族 身份认同、种族社会化实践与心理健康结果 在非裔美国初高中青少年和主要照顾者中。 这项研究将在三年内研究这些问题。建议数 研究有三个具体目标。这些目标是： (1)调查父母与青少年种族之间的互动关系 认同态度、种族社会化知觉与种族体验 在种族信息传递过程中的歧视 世代；(2)确定种族认同的各种轨迹 发展以及与身份变化相关的因素发生在 非裔美国青少年和成年人；以及(3)研究青少年 种族认同与父母和青少年对种族的体验 歧视对非裔美国青少年心理的影响 随着时间的推移发挥作用。这项研究利用种族的多维模型 身份作为一种概念框架。640名非洲裔美国学生 8年级、9年级和10年级的学生和他们的小学将被招募参加 来自中西部城市公立学区的学习护理员。回归 分析、结构方程建模和分层线性建模将 用于解决在具体目标中提出的研究问题。结果 将在横向和纵向以及内部和纵向进行审查 跨越几代人。拟议研究的结果应该会推动我们的 理解体验中与文化相关的变量和过程 以及非裔美国青少年的功能。

DESCRIPTION (investigator's abstract): The proposed research examines racial identity, race socialization practices, and psychological well-being outcomes in African American middle and high school adolescents and a primary caregiver. The study will examine these issues over a three-year period. The proposed study has three specific aims. These aims are to: (1) investigate the reciprocal relationships among parent and adolescent racial identity attitudes, race socialization perceptions, and experiences of racial discrimination in the process by which race messages are transmitted across generations; (2) determine the various trajectories in which racial identity development occurs as well as the factors associated with identity change in African American adolescents and adults; and (3) examine how adolescents' racial identity and parent and adolescents' experiences with racial discrimination influence African American adolescents' psychological functioning over time. The study utilizes the Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity as a conceptual framework. Six hundred forty African American students in grades 8,9, and 10 and their primary will be recruited to participate in the study caregiver from a public school district in a Midwest city. Regression analyses, structural equation modeling, and hierarchical linear modeling will be used to address the research questions raised in the specific aims. Results will be examined cross-sectionally and longitudinally as well as within and across generations. Findings from the proposed study should advance our understanding of culturally relevant variables and processes in the experiences and functioning of African American adolescents.