African American Racial Identity: Across Generations

描述（研究者摘要）：拟议的研究审查了种族 身份，种族社会化实践和心理健康结果 在非洲裔美国初中和高中青少年和主要照顾者。 这项研究将在三年期间审查这些问题。拟议 研究有三个具体目标。这些目标是： (1)调查父母和青少年种族之间的相互关系 身份的态度，种族社会化的看法，和种族的经验， 在种族信息传播过程中的歧视 （2）确定种族认同的各种轨迹; 发展发生以及与身份变化相关的因素， 非裔美国青少年和成年人;（3）研究青少年如何 种族认同与父母和青少年的种族经历 歧视对非裔美国青少年心理的影响 随着时间的推移而运作。这项研究利用了种族的多维模型， 身份是一个概念框架。640名非裔美国学生 在等级8，9，和10和他们的小学将被招募参加 来自米德韦斯特城公立学区的学习看护者。回归 分析、结构方程建模和分层线性建模将 用于解决具体目标中提出的研究问题。结果 将审查横截面和纵向以及内， 跨越几代人。这项研究的结果应该会推动我们的 理解经验中与文化相关的变量和过程 和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.