A Longitudinal Examination of Racial Identity and Racial Discrimination Among African American Adolescents

This study tested the longitudinal association between perceptions of racial discrimination and racial identity among a sample of 219 African American adolescents, aged 14 to 18. Structural equation modeling was used to test relations between perceptions of racial discrimination and racial identity...

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Published inChild development Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 406 - 417
Main Authors Seaton, Eleanor K., Yip, Tiffany, Sellers, Robert M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2009
Wiley-Blackwell
Blackwell Publishing
Subjects
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - ethnology
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
African Americans
African Americans - psychology
Analysis
Attitude Measures
Attitudes
Biological and medical sciences
Black American people
Black communities
Child development
Correlation
Developmental psychology
Empirical Articles
Ethnic identity
Ethnicity
Family studies
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Identity
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Negative Attitudes
North Carolina
Perceptions
Prejudice
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Race
Race Relations - psychology
Racial Discrimination
Racial Identification
Racial identity
Social Attitudes
Social discrimination
Social Environment
Social Identification
Social Perception
Social psychology
Structural Equation Models
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teenagers
U.S.A
North Carolina
Human
Social group
Follow up study
Adolescent
Race
Social belonging
Racism
Ethnic group
Social identity
African American
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Summary:This study tested the longitudinal association between perceptions of racial discrimination and racial identity among a sample of 219 African American adolescents, aged 14 to 18. Structural equation modeling was used to test relations between perceptions of racial discrimination and racial identity dimensions, namely, racial centrality, private regard, and public regard at 3 time points. The results indicated that perceived racial discrimination at Time 1 was negatively linked to public regard at Time 2. Nested analyses using age were conducted, and perceptions of racial discrimination at Time 2 were negatively linked to private regard at Time 3 among older adolescents. The findings imply that perceived racial discrimination is linked to negative views that the broader society has of African Americans.
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This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH 5 R01 MH061967‐03), the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the National Science Foundation. We thank the African American Family Project for their help with data collection and we gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Shelly Harrell.
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This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH 5 R01 MH061967-03), the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Science Foundation. We thank the African American Family Project for their help with data collection and we gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Shelly Harrell.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01268.x