DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/MQD3-C032
Defense Date
2025
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Fantasy Lozada
Abstract
Experiences of racial discrimination are pervasive in the lives of Black youth and result in race-related stress. Racial coping has been found to mitigate the negative physical and mental health effects of racial discrimination; thus, it is imperative that we understand the process that Black youth undertake to navigate racialized experiences by utilizing a person-centered approach. Additionally, parents socialize their Black youth to navigate racialized experiences, indeed, previous research has investigated racial and emotion socialization as separate phenomena, however, this does not reflect the integrated nature by which racial and emotion socialization processes are interconnected during parents’ and youths’ discussions about race. Given the pervasive nature of race-related stress on Black adolescents’ adjustment, the present study employed a multi-method approach to achieve two primary objectives: (1) to identify parents’ racial and emotion socialization process that promote racial coping and (2) to understand the profiles of racial coping among Black adolescents in the 6th – 8th grade. Findings revealed that parents used a myriad of socialization strategies during conversations of negative racial experiences with their youth and these parenting strategies were reflected across the ways in which the youth responded to and coped with situations of racial discrimination. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
4-30-2025