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Racial Identity, Parental Support, and Alcohol Use in a Sample of Academically At‐Risk African American High School Students
Author(s) -
Caldwell Cleopatra Howard,
Sellers Robert M.,
Bernat Debra Hilkene,
Zimmerman Marc A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1023/b:ajcp.0000040147.69287.f7
Subject(s) - psychology , identity (music) , health psychology , race (biology) , african american , ethnic group , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , public health , medicine , gender studies , sociology , ethnology , physics , nursing , anthropology , acoustics
This study examined racial identity and parental support as predictors of alcohol use in a sample of 488 African American adolescents. Two dimensions of racial identity were investigated: (1) racial centrality (i.e., the significance that one places on race in defining oneself) and (2) private regard (i.e., the extent to which one feels positively about Black people). In addition, perceived support from mothers and fathers was examined. Multivariate results showed that private regard and father support were associated with less self‐reported alcohol use after partialling out the effects of age and gender. An interaction between the two racial identity dimensions was also found such that private regard was associated with less alcohol use for adolescents who reported that race was a more central part of their identity.