3-067 - Parenting, Racial Socialization, Emotion Regulation, & Psychosocial Outcomes in African American Youth

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

As research on African American youth has begun to mature, new questions regarding the ways that general aspects of parenting African American youth interface with culturally relevant parenting strategies like racial socialization. The proposed symposium will present 3 papers that examine different aspects of parenting and racial socialization with African American early and middle adolescents and how they are linked to psychosocial outcomes. Paper 1 presents a replication and extension of previous research through its examination of parent-child relationship quality as a moderator of the relationship between racial socialization messages and adolescent depressive symptoms. It reports interesting distinctions between impacts for mothers and fathers. Papers 2 and 3 present separate examinations of the Integrative Conceptual Model of Parental Racial/Ethnic and Emotion Socialization (Dunbar et al., 2017). Both papers demonstrate the specific ways racial socialization strategies foster or exacerbate emotion regulation behaviors in a middle school (paper #1) and a high school (paper #2) sample, respectively. This 3-paper panel will conclude with remarks by a prominent expert in the field and a question-and-answer period with the audience.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Chair

• Mia A Smith-Bynum, University of Maryland

Discussant

• Shauna Cooper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Individual Presentations

• Mother- and Father-Child Relationships, Parental Racial Socialization and Black Children’s Mental Health - Presenting Author: Sharde McNeil Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Non-Presenting Author: Hafeezah Branch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The Role of Racialized Emotion Socialization in Moderating the Negative Effects of Discrimination on Academic Adjustment - Presenting Author: Fantasy Lozada, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Black Youths’ Emotional Reactivity, Discrimination, and Problem Behaviors: Observed Racial Socialization as a Moderator - Presenting Author: Angel S. Dunbar, University of Maryland; Non-Presenting Author: Erica E Coates, University of Maryland; Non-Presenting Author: Lydia HaRim Ahn, University of Maryland, College Park; Non-Presenting Author: Marisa G. Franco, Georgia State University; Non-Presenting Author: Khris-Ann Small, University of Conneticut; Non-Presenting Author: Mia A Smith-Bynum, University of Maryland