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How Does Racial Context Matter?: Family Preparation‐for‐Bias Messages and Racial Coping Reported by Black Youth
Author(s) -
Scott Judith C.,
Pinderhughes Ellen E.,
Johnson Sara K.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.13332
Subject(s) - psychology , coping (psychology) , harassment , developmental psychology , transactional leadership , social psychology , transactional analysis , stressor , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , clinical psychology , medicine , environmental health
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 youth aged 13–14 to identify situation‐specific family messages and youth coping responses. Families’ messages and youths’ responses varied in content and frequency based on the specific discriminatory situation, which suggests consideration of context.