How Does Racial Context Matter?: Family Preparation-for-Bias Messages and Racial Coping Reported by Black Youth.

ABSTRACT: Black families and youth likely consider specific racial discriminatory situations in preparation-for-bias messages and racial coping responses. Our study investigated coping responses embedded in youth-reported Black families' preparation-for-bias messages and youths' proactive coping responses to specific racially discriminatory situations-teachers' negative expectations, store employees' hyper-monitoring and police harassment. Gender and racial discrimination experience differences were considered along with relations between messages and coping. Our investigation was guided by the integrated-developmental, transactional/ecological, intersectionality, and Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory theoretical frameworks. We conducted cluster analyses using data from 117 Black

SUBMITTER: Scott JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7188572 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature