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. 2022 May;93(3):653-667.
doi: 10.1111/cdev.13788. Epub 2022 May 16.

Parent socialization and anti-racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?

Ciara Smalls Glover  1 , Fatima Varner  2 , Kathleen Holloway  2
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Parent socialization and anti-racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?

Ciara Smalls Glover et al. Child Dev. 2022 May.

Abstract

The development of anti-racist ideology in adolescence and emerging adulthood is informed by parent socialization, parenting style, and cross-race friendships. This study used longitudinal, multi-reporter survey data from White youth and their parents in Maryland to examine links between parents' racial attitudes when youth were in eleventh grade in 1996 (N = 453; 52% female; Mage = 17.12) and the youths' anti-racist ideology (acknowledgment of anti-Black discrimination and support for affirmative action) 1 year after high school in 1998. This study also examined whether these associations varied based on authoritative parenting and the number of cross-race friendships. Positive parent racial attitudes toward racially and ethnically minoritized populations predicted higher anti-racist ideology in the independent contexts of more cross-race friendships and low authoritative parenting.

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Conceptual model of research questions
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Standardized path coefficients. +p < .10, *p < .05, **p < .01
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Authoritative parenting as a moderator of the link between parents’ racial out-group attitudes and beliefs about anti-Black discrimination. *p < .05
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Number of close cross-race friendships as a moderator of the link between parents’ racial out-group attitudes and beliefs about anti-Black discrimination. *p < .05
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