J Abigail Saavedra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4456775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Abigail Saavedra |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Saavedra |
| SIGNATURE | SAAVEDRA J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1085-7799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethnic studies education as a site for sociopolitical development: Examining profiles of Asian Americans’ critical consciousness over time
Radical Accountability: A Strategy for Addressing Challenges and Inequities in Research Mentoring Relationships
In research-intensive fields such as psychology, research mentoring is a crucial component of academic and professional advancement. Research mentoring occurs when a more experienced person mentors a more junior person in research. Although these mentoring relationships have significant potential to address systemic inequities in psychology and academia more generally, some mentoring relationships do the opposite by further marginalizing women, P…
Adolescents’ Experiences of Anti-Youth Ageism
Ageism against older adults is well documented, but adolescents also experience ageism in ways that remain under-researched. Anti-youth ageism consists of stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination toward adolescents due to their age. This qualitative study aimed to document adolescents’ experiences of anti-youth ageism based on one-on-one interviews with a racially, ethnically and geographically diverse sample of forty 14- to 18-year-olds. Indu…
Ethnic Studies Courses as a Developmental Context: A Systematic Review of Asian American Students’ Developmental Experiences
Ethnic Studies education is a promising intervention for promoting anti-racism and decolonization and fostering important developmental outcomes. However, little research documents Ethnic Studies course-taking among Asian Americans, who are particularly understudied despite their advocacy for Ethnic Studies and the implications of Asian American racialization for diversity-related educational policy. In this systematic review, we utilize the Phen…
Youth activism: Developing sociopolitical synergy across interest, knowledge, and involvement
Parental Racial‐Ethnic Socialization and Competence in Asian Families
Objective This study examined how Asian parents' racial‐ethnic socialization (RES) content with their younger children coalesces with their confidence in providing messages about managing discrimination. Background The COVID‐19 pandemic and ensuing rise in anti‐Asian discrimination in the United States prompted Asian parents to talk more about race, ethnicity, and discrimination with their children. Asian parents' discrimination experiences and i…
Engaging or waiting: Variations in Asian American parents’ motivations and approaches to racial socialization during middle childhood and early adolescence
Parental racial socialization has promotive and protective effects on children's development as they navigate their racialized worlds. Few studies have focused on how Asian American parents navigate conversations about race and racism with their children during middle childhood and early adolescence, even though children during this period are making sense of race-related topics and their racial-ethnic identities. The present study qualitatively …
A Mixed Methods Study of Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action, Colorblindness, and White Privilege Among White Women College Students in the US
This study seeks to address the research question: What are U.S. White women college students' attitudes toward race-conscious affirmative action policy in college admissions since the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, and how do they relate to their racial attitudes? We qualitatively examined participants’ reasoning behind their opinions on the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions. In addition, we quantitatively examined the differen…
Together, We Empower. Together, We Are Enough”: Radical Healing Among Pinay Scholar-Activists
Filipinas face barriers to psychological wellbeing that stem from interlocking oppressive systems, like racism, sexism, capitalism, and colonialism. This article explores how Pinay scholar-activists cultivate radical healing through an intergenerational mentorship program for Filipina/x/o youth in Southern California. We apply a critical collaborative autoethnography drawing from the Psychological Framework for Radical Healing (French et al., Cit…
Familial critical consciousness socialization: How key family theories can expand racial‐ethnic socialization research among Asian American families
As systems of oppression (e.g., racism) become more evident in public consciousness, Asian American families are grappling with critical discussions about social justice and oppression. To define and explore these increasingly common conversations, we propose critical consciousness socialization as an important construct for socialization research among Asian American families. Critical consciousness socialization is the transmission of knowledge…
Translating critical reflection into collective action: The mediating role of Asian American racial identity ideological values
Throughout U.S. history, Asian Americans engaged in various forms of collective action to challenge systems of oppression. Despite this, few studies challenge the stereotype that Asian Americans are apolitical and uninterested in collective action and focus on psychological correlates of Asian Americans' collective action. Collective action may be motivated by critical reflection on racism and inequality, which may induce shifts in racial identit…
Translating critical reflection into collective action: The mediating role of Asian American racial identity ideological values
Throughout U.S. history, Asian Americans engaged in various forms of collective action to challenge systems of oppression. Despite this, few studies challenge the stereotype that Asian Americans are apolitical and uninterested in collective action and focus on psychological correlates of Asian Americans' collective action. Collective action may be motivated by critical reflection on racism and inequality, which may induce shifts in racial identit…
Together, We Empower. Together, We Are Enough”: Radical Healing Among Pinay Scholar-Activists
Filipinas face barriers to psychological wellbeing that stem from interlocking oppressive systems, like racism, sexism, capitalism, and colonialism. This article explores how Pinay scholar-activists cultivate radical healing through an intergenerational mentorship program for Filipina/x/o youth in Southern California. We apply a critical collaborative autoethnography drawing from the Psychological Framework for Radical Healing (French et al., Cit…
Familial critical consciousness socialization: How key family theories can expand racial‐ethnic socialization research among Asian American families
As systems of oppression (e.g., racism) become more evident in public consciousness, Asian American families are grappling with critical discussions about social justice and oppression. To define and explore these increasingly common conversations, we propose critical consciousness socialization as an important construct for socialization research among Asian American families. Critical consciousness socialization is the transmission of knowledge…
Familial critical consciousness socialization: How key family theories can expand racial‐ethnic socialization research among Asian American families
As systems of oppression (e.g., racism) become more evident in public consciousness, Asian American families are grappling with critical discussions about social justice and oppression. To define and explore these increasingly common conversations, we propose critical consciousness socialization as an important construct for socialization research among Asian American families. Critical consciousness socialization is the transmission of knowledge…
Translating critical reflection into collective action: The mediating role of Asian American racial identity ideological values
Throughout U.S. history, Asian Americans engaged in various forms of collective action to challenge systems of oppression. Despite this, few studies challenge the stereotype that Asian Americans are apolitical and uninterested in collective action and focus on psychological correlates of Asian Americans' collective action. Collective action may be motivated by critical reflection on racism and inequality, which may induce shifts in racial identit…
Together, We Empower. Together, We Are Enough”: Radical Healing Among Pinay Scholar-Activists
Filipinas face barriers to psychological wellbeing that stem from interlocking oppressive systems, like racism, sexism, capitalism, and colonialism. This article explores how Pinay scholar-activists cultivate radical healing through an intergenerational mentorship program for Filipina/x/o youth in Southern California. We apply a critical collaborative autoethnography drawing from the Psychological Framework for Radical Healing (French et al., Cit…
Ethnic Studies Courses as a Developmental Context: A Systematic Review of Asian American Students’ Developmental Experiences
Ethnic Studies education is a promising intervention for promoting anti-racism and decolonization and fostering important developmental outcomes. However, little research documents Ethnic Studies course-taking among Asian Americans, who are particularly understudied despite their advocacy for Ethnic Studies and the implications of Asian American racialization for diversity-related educational policy. In this systematic review, we utilize the Phen…
Youth activism: Developing sociopolitical synergy across interest, knowledge, and involvement
Parental Racial‐Ethnic Socialization and Competence in Asian Families
Objective This study examined how Asian parents' racial‐ethnic socialization (RES) content with their younger children coalesces with their confidence in providing messages about managing discrimination. Background The COVID‐19 pandemic and ensuing rise in anti‐Asian discrimination in the United States prompted Asian parents to talk more about race, ethnicity, and discrimination with their children. Asian parents' discrimination experiences and i…
Engaging or waiting: Variations in Asian American parents’ motivations and approaches to racial socialization during middle childhood and early adolescence
Parental racial socialization has promotive and protective effects on children's development as they navigate their racialized worlds. Few studies have focused on how Asian American parents navigate conversations about race and racism with their children during middle childhood and early adolescence, even though children during this period are making sense of race-related topics and their racial-ethnic identities. The present study qualitatively …
A Mixed Methods Study of Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action, Colorblindness, and White Privilege Among White Women College Students in the US
This study seeks to address the research question: What are U.S. White women college students' attitudes toward race-conscious affirmative action policy in college admissions since the 2023 Supreme Court ruling, and how do they relate to their racial attitudes? We qualitatively examined participants’ reasoning behind their opinions on the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions. In addition, we quantitatively examined the differen…
Ethnic studies education as a site for sociopolitical development: Examining profiles of Asian Americans’ critical consciousness over time
Radical Accountability: A Strategy for Addressing Challenges and Inequities in Research Mentoring Relationships
In research-intensive fields such as psychology, research mentoring is a crucial component of academic and professional advancement. Research mentoring occurs when a more experienced person mentors a more junior person in research. Although these mentoring relationships have significant potential to address systemic inequities in psychology and academia more generally, some mentoring relationships do the opposite by further marginalizing women, P…
Adolescents’ Experiences of Anti-Youth Ageism
Ageism against older adults is well documented, but adolescents also experience ageism in ways that remain under-researched. Anti-youth ageism consists of stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination toward adolescents due to their age. This qualitative study aimed to document adolescents’ experiences of anti-youth ageism based on one-on-one interviews with a racially, ethnically and geographically diverse sample of forty 14- to 18-year-olds. Indu…
Psychology (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Racism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian americans (3 works) · Critical consciousness (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Oppression (3 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (3 works)