Intersectionality and Parent Empowerment: Intersections of Parents' Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Language in Parent Empowerment

• In Event: 56.082 - Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: 56.082-7 - Using Quantitative Methodologies in the Study of Counseling Psychology

Abstract

Using parent questionnaire of the base-year Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002(ELS: 2002), this study investigated intersecting factors of parents’ race/ethnicity, SES and language on parent empowerment in a sample of 4482 parents of 10th grade students who attending public or private schools in the United States. Using Exhaustive Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID), the results indicated that parents’ race/ethnicity, SES and language as intersectionality were significantly related to five components (e.g., parents’ sense of meaning, competence, self-determination, community belonging, and community participation) of parent empowerment. The findings indicated intersectional effects of race/ethnicity, SES, language as these relate to perceptions of parent empowerment produce different characteristics in a different parent empowerment component.

Authors

• Jungnam Kim, Ball State University

• Julia Bryan, The Pennsylvania State University - University Park