Dealing with discrimination: Parents’ and adolescents’ racial discrimination experiences and parenting in African American families.

Fatima Varner, Yang Hou, Latisha Ross, Noelle M. Hurd, Jacqueline Mattis

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Abstract

Objectives: Survey data of 155 Midwestern African American adolescents (M age = 13.25, 54.8% female) and their parents were assessed to examine whether parents’ racial discrimination experiences and adolescents’ gender moderated the association between adolescents’ racial discrimination experiences and involved-vigilant parenting. Methods: Path analyses were conducted with racial discrimination and gender at Wave 1 predicting parenting at Wave 2, controlling for Wave 1 parenting and demographic variables. Results: Boys with high levels of racial discrimination experiences and who had parents with low racial discrimination experiences had declines in involved-vigilant parenting. There were no significant differences in involved-vigilant parenting by level of racial discrimination experience among girls. Conclusions: The results indicate that parenting may depend on both parents’ and adolescents’ racial discrimination experiences and characteristics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)215-220
Number of pages6
JournalCultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
Volume26
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

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© 2019 American Psychological Association

Keywords

  • African American families
  • adolescents
  • gender
  • parenting
  • racial discrimination

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

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