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. 2020 Apr;26(2):215-220.
doi: 10.1037/cdp0000281. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

Dealing with discrimination: Parents' and adolescents' racial discrimination experiences and parenting in African American families

Fatima Varner  1 , Yang Hou  1 , Latisha Ross  2 , Noelle M Hurd  3 , Jacqueline Mattis  3
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Dealing with discrimination: Parents' and adolescents' racial discrimination experiences and parenting in African American families

Fatima Varner et al. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2020 Apr.

Abstract

Objectives: Survey data of 155 Midwestern African American adolescents (Mage = 13.25, 54.8% female) and their parents were assessed to examine whether parents' racial discrimination experiences and adolescents' gender moderated the association between adolescents' racial discrimination experiences and involved-vigilant parenting.

Methods: Path analyses were conducted with racial discrimination and gender at Wave 1 predicting parenting at Wave 2, controlling for Wave 1 parenting and demographic variables.

Results: Boys with high levels of racial discrimination experiences and who had parents with low racial discrimination experiences had declines in involved-vigilant parenting. There were no significant differences in involved-vigilant parenting by level of racial discrimination experience among girls.

Conclusions: The results indicate that parenting may depend on both parents' and adolescents' racial discrimination experiences and characteristics. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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Figure 1.
Three-way interaction effect of adolescent racial discrimination experiences, parental racial discrimination experiences, and adolescent gender on involved-vigilant parenting. Adolescents’ racial discrimination experiences are negatively related to involved-vigilant parenting only among male adolescents when parents experienced low levels of racial discrimination.
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