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Neighborhood Matters: Racial Socialization of African American Children
Author(s) -
Caughy Margaret O'Brien,
Nettles Saundra Murray,
O'Campo Patricia J.,
Lohrfink Kimberly Fraleigh
Publication year - 2006
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/j.1467-8624.2006.00930.x
Subject(s) - psychology , socialization , developmental psychology , association (psychology) , social capital , promotion (chess) , cognitive development , cognition , social psychology , sociology , political science , social science , neuroscience , politics , law , psychotherapist
Differences in racial socialization practices and their effects were examined in a sample of 241 African American 1st graders (average age 6.59 years) living in an urban area. Child outcomes included cognitive development, receptive language skills, and child problem behavior. The cultural environment of the home was associated with higher cognitive scores for boys living in high negative social climate and low social capital neighborhoods and for girls living in high social capital neighborhoods. The positive association of promotion of mistrust and child behavior problems was magnified in neighborhoods that had low levels of social capital. A high negative social climate in the neighborhood attenuated the positive association between preparation for bias/promotion of mistrust and externalizing problems.