2-013 - Culturally Bound: Acculturation, Racial-Ethnic Socialization and Ethnic Identity Influences on Parenting and Youth Development

Session Type: Poster Symposium

Integrative Statement

Ethnic minority parenting and youth development are shaped by culture (McLoyd, 2004). The integrative model (García-Coll et al., 1996) highlights how youth’s and families’ cultural experiences impact developmental processes, with cultural factors explaining potential within and between ethnic group variation (Phinney, 1998). This poster session examines how immigration (Suárez-Orozco et al., 2009), discrimination (Umaña-Taylor et al., 2008), racial-ethnic identity (Umaña-Taylor et al., 2014) and socialization (Hughes et al., 2006) are related to parent involvement in education (PIE) as well as youth’s academic and psychosocial outcomes. Using African American and Latino samples, the authors investigate the nuanced and complex relations between cultural variables and developmental competencies. Two posters examine acculturation and unfair treatment in relation to Latino PIE. The first uses a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin parents to examine how language use and discrimination experiences impact parents’ cultural socialization, an alternative PIE strategy, during adolescence. The second study explores how documentation concerns hinder Latino PIE. Three posters focus on how acculturation, ethnic identity, and racial-ethnic socialization affect youth. Poster 3 examines how acculturation status, based on cultural values, and ethnic identity are associated with Latino adolescents’ educational expectations. Posters 4 and 5 examine the mediating role of racial-ethnic identity in the association between racial socialization and GPA as well as discrimination experiences and depressive symptoms. The final poster examines how African American college students’ perceived racial discrimination affects academic performance via expectations for academic success. The co-chairs, with expertise in African American and Latino youth outcomes and parenting, will facilitate discussion.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Chairs

• Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University

• Mayra Y Bamaca-Colbert, The Pennsylvania State University

Individual Presentations

• 1. Examining Changes in Cultural Socialization among Latino Immigrant Families: The Importance of Acculturation and Discrimination - Presenting Author: Sakshi Bhargava, Pennsylvania State University; Mayra Y Bamaca-Colbert, The Pennsylvania State University; Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University; Eva Pomerantz, Univ of Illinois; Richard Whitney Robins, University of California, Davis

• 2. Documentation Status Concerns as a Predictor of Parent School Involvement - Presenting Author: Fernanda Lima Cross, Univ of Michigan

• 3. Acculturation, Ethnic Identity and Educational Expectations among Latino Adolescents - Presenting Author: Saskia Boggs, Penn State; Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University

• 4. Racial Socialization, Racial Identity and Academic Success in African American and Latino College Freshmen - Presenting Author: Allana Zuckerman, Georgia State University; Ciara P Smalls-Glover, Georgia State University

• 5. Ethnic Identity Affirmation as a Mediator in the Discrimination-Distress Link - Presenting Author: Peter Kim, Pennsylvania State University; Ni Jian, Pennsylvania State University; Mayra Y Bamaca-Colbert, The Pennsylvania State University

• 6. Indirect Effect of Racial Discrimination on College GPA Through Educational Expectations - Presenting Author: Dominique Thomas, Georgia State University; Ciara P Smalls-Glover, Georgia State University