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. 2021 Sep;68(1-2):88-99.
doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12496. Epub 2021 Jan 7.

Relating through Oppression: Longitudinal Relations between Parental Racial Socialization, School Racial Climate, Oppressed Minority Ideology, and Empathy in Black Male Adolescents' Prosocial Development

Josefina Bañales  1 , Fantasy T Lozada  2 , Jozet Channey  3 , Robert J Jagers  4
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Relating through Oppression: Longitudinal Relations between Parental Racial Socialization, School Racial Climate, Oppressed Minority Ideology, and Empathy in Black Male Adolescents' Prosocial Development

Josefina Bañales et al. Am J Community Psychol. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

This research explored whether Black male adolescents' (N = 453; Mage = 13.72, SD = 1.33) perceptions of parental racial socialization (i.e., behavioral racial socialization) and school racial climate (i.e., equitable school racial climate) were associated with prosocial outcomes (i.e., prosocial behaviors and positive relations with others) across three waves of adolescence. This study also explored whether youth's beliefs about the extent to which Black individuals and other marginalized communities are united by experiences of oppression (i.e., oppressed minority ideology) and empathy mediated these associations. Structural equation modeling indicated that parental behavioral racial socialization at Wave 1 and positive relations with others at Wave 3 were positively linked through youth's oppressed minority ideology and empathy at Wave 2. Thus, Black male adolescents who relate to other marginalized communities through a shared experience of oppression and feel empathy towards others' lives possess skills that translate their lessons about race and racism into positive relations with others.

Keywords: Adolescence; Black male adolescents; Parental racial socialization; Prosocial behaviors; School racial climate; Sociopolitical development.

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