Nov 4 Reading Flashcards
A 21st Century Take on Racial-Ethnic Socialization: Patterns of Competency and Content among Diverse Parents of Colour - SETUP
currently unknown how parents’ socialization COMPETENCY (confidence, skills, stress) coalesces with…
FREQUENCY of delivery of diff TYPES of socialization messages (content)
also looks at sociodemographic/relevant factors:
1. discrimination experience
2. critical consciousness dimensions
3 parental profiles that emerged
- less prepared, stressed, low frequency
- prepared, low stress, frequent
- prepared, stressed, frequent
profile differences emerge on…
- parental and youth sociodemographic factors
- lifetime discrimination exposure
- each parental critical consciousness measure
components of the parental profiles
preparedness
stress
frequency
higher parental SES = associated with…
more VARIED, FREQUENT messages
RES content profiles characterized by greater NUMBER and VARIABILITY in messages tended to have parents who…
reported
- greater racial PRIDE
- higher racial CENTRALITY
- more DISCRIMINATION
parents who reported experiencing more disc as their children enter later adolescence change…
change their constellation of messages
to increase both CULTURAL SOCIALIZATION and PREP 4 BIAS
critical consciousness and parental ERS
parents use their understanding of the systemic nature of racial inequalities to inform their ERS
may draw on their own ACTIVISM to inform ERS practice, equipping youth with MODELS of how to counter racism
RES competency
comprises parents’
- stress levels
- perceived skills
- perceived confidence
surrounding their communication of RES content
relationship between parental worries and youth’s functioning was weaker for those…
higher in RES competency
parental RES competency may therefore have the ability to DISRUPT THE INTERGENERATIONAL PATHWAYS by which parents’ discrimination experiences and worries about racial issues are associated with mental health symptomatology in their children
alternative names for the 3 parental profiles
- COMPETENT parents
^ (frequent and multifaceted ERS messages)
- MODERATELY COMPETENT parents
^(less engaged in RES content delivery)
- STRESSED parents
^ (delivered NEGATIVE RES content messages)
parental profiles and percentages
- less prepared stressed low frequency - LARGEST PROFILE, 48.72% of sample
- prepared low stress frequent - 34.87% of sample
- prepared stressed frequent - 16.41% of sample
less prepared stressed low frequency
- low confidence
- low skills
- average levels of stress
gave ALL FORMS OF ERS WITH BELOW AVERAGE FREQUENCY
EXCEPT for PROMOTION OF MISTRUST messages
48.2% of sample
prepared low stress frequent
- high confidence
- high skills
- lowest stress
AVERAGE-ABOVE AVERAGE POSITIVE MESSAGES and PREP 4 BIAS
relatively FEW MISTRUST/RACE MINIMIZATION messages
34.87% of sample
prepared stressed frequent
- high confidence
- high skills
- highest stress
MOST FREQUENT ERS MSGS OF ALL PARENTS
regardless of content of socialization message type
HIGHEST in POS and NEG messages
16.4% of sample