2-132 - The Content, Context, and Consequences of Parental Socialization of Ethnic Minority Youth

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Parents use a combination of behaviors and messages to guide their adolescents’ development of academic competencies. This parental socialization can vary in content and consequence based on the ecological context and characteristics of the youth receiving this socialization. This symposium features 3 papers that examine the role of parental socialization in the academic development of diverse youth.
Paper 1 uses longitudinal data from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study to explore how gender-differentiated parental socialization in middle school is related to gender differences in educational attainment during the transition to adulthood among 681 African American youth.
Paper 2 uses an intersectional framework and latent growth curve analysis to examine the influences of both parent and peer academic socialization and support on emotional and behavioral engagement among immigrant adolescents (ages 10-17 years) over 3 years. In addition, gender differences in these associations will be discussed.
While past studies tend to include parental behaviors and expectations, Paper 3 extends parent academic socialization research by validating a multidimensional parental academic socialization measure that focuses on academic messages. Confirmatory factor analysis and convergent, divergent, and predictive validity were assessed using data from 195 Black parents of middle school students.
Together this symposium integrates multiple conceptualizations of parental socialization to highlight the need to consider the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and immigration processes in our exploration of the links between parenting and adolescent development. Implications of this research for studying adolescents’ academic success and family processes in diverse contexts will be discussed.

Sub Unit

• Education, Schooling

Chair

• Fatima varner, University of Texas at Austin

Individual Presentations

• Gender-Differentiated Parenting and Gender Differences in Educational Attainment among African American Youth - Presenting Author: Fatima varner, University of Texas at Austin

• The Role of Parents and Peers in Newcomer Immigrant Youth’s Academic Engagement - Presenting Author: Naila Smith, Dickinson College; Non-Presenting Author: Joshua L. Brown, Fordham University; Non-Presenting Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco, The University of California, Los Angeles

• Academic Socialization of Black Parents: A Reliability and Validity Study - Presenting Author: Latisha Ross, University of Michigan; Non-Presenting Author: Stephanie Rowley, University of Michigan