Sentences with phrase «racial socialization messages»

Additionally, we examined global self - esteem as a mediator of the complex dynamic between racial socialization messages and behavior outcomes.

To further explore this, we examined how two types of racial socialization messages might influence African American youth internalizing and externalizing behavior.

Racial socialization messages appear to have varying impacts on the adjustment of African American youth.

As shown by Fischer and Shaw (1999), African American youth who receive negative racial socialization messages or messages that devalue or overlook the positive characteristics related to being African American (e.g., «learning about Black history is not that important») are more prone to evidence poorer psychological adjustment and academic outcomes.

The primary constructs within the hypothesized framework are: (1) social position variables — characteristics that are used within societies to hierarchically stratify groups (race, gender, socioeconomic status); (2) parenting variables — familial mechanisms that may influence African American adolescents well - being, perceptions of competence, and attitudes towards others in various contexts (e.g., parenting practices and racial socialization messages); (3) racial discrimination — negative racially driven experiences that may influence feelings of competence, belongingness, and self - worth; (4) environmental / contextual factors — settings and surroundings that may impede or promote healthy identity development (e.g., academic settings); and (5) learner characteristics — individual characteristics that may promote or hinder positive psychological adjustment outcomes (e.g., racial identity, coping styles).

A community sample of 150 parents (mean age = 41.32, SD = 1.71) provided self - report responses regarding their use of supportive parenting behaviors, racial socialization messages and their observations of problem behaviors.

At the same time, certain types of racial socialization messages may also generate an increased susceptibility to psychological maladjustment among African American adolescents.