The Role of "The Talk" and Its Themes in Black Youths' Anticipatory Stress of Police Brutality.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Research on conversations between caregivers and their children about how to prepare or conduct themselves when stopped by police (ie, "the talk") has grown in recent years. However, little is known about how having "the talk" may influence youths' stress about future experiences of police brutality (ie, anticipatory stress of police brutality). The objective of the present study is to examine how youths' anticipatory stress regarding police brutality varies by whether they have had "the talk" with their caregivers.

Methods

Data come from the Survey of Police-Adolescent Contact Experiences (SPACE), a cross-sectional survey of a community-based sample of Black youth aged 12 to 21 years in Baltimore, Maryland (n = 339), collected from August 2022 to J

SUBMITTER: Webb L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11844802 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature