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Discrimination and adolescents' academic and socioemotional adjustment: The moderating roles of family and peer cultural socialisation
Author(s) -
Chen Shanting,
Benner Aprile,
Wang Yijie
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1002/ijop.12637
Subject(s) - socioemotional selectivity theory , psychology , socialization , developmental psychology , ethnic group , social psychology , sociology , anthropology
Racial discrimination has detrimental effects on ethnic minority adolescents' development. Guided by the integrative model of minority children's competencies and the bioecological model, the current study examined how family and peer cultural socialization independently and conjointly buffered the detrimental effects of discrimination on ethnic minority adolescents' academic and socio emotional adjustment. Using short‐term longitudinal data from 245 eighth graders (87% Latinx, 51% female), results suggested that the moderating roles of cultural socialisation operated differently for academic and socioemotional outcomes. Specifically, the three‐way interaction results indicated that family and peer cultural socializations appeared to be protective for adolescents' school engagement in the face of discrimination. The significant two‐way interaction results revealed that both peer and family cultural socialisation tended to be protective‐reactive for socioemotional outcomes, wherein the benefits of cultural socialisation were realised under low‐risk but not high‐risk conditions for depressive symptoms. Our study provides a nuanced understanding of the moderating roles of cultural socialisation in the links between discrimination and adolescents' well‐being, and it highlights the importance of considering cultural socialisation from multiple contexts in examining ethnic minority adolescents' adjustment.