Fantasy T Lozada
Biographic Data
| ID | 75997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fantasy T Lozada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fantasy T |
| FAMILY NAME | Lozada |
| SIGNATURE | LOZADA F T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0126-8215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Centering Ethnic-Racial Identity in Education Framework: A Culturally Affirming Approach to Home-School Collaborations With Black and Latine Youth and Families
Research on youth ethnic-racial identity and socialization, primarily coming from the field of developmental psychology, offers insights for preparing teachers to create affirming classrooms for Black and Latine youth. On the other hand, research from the fields of teacher education and curriculum illuminates how school contexts, societal influences, and knowledge construction relate to identity and socialization. Synthesizing these two literatur…
Critical Reflection, Racial Regard, and Appropriated Racial Oppression in Black Emerging Adults
Existing literature suggests that critical consciousness positively influences racial identity and decreases racially marginalized peoples’ susceptibility to internalizing negative beliefs and stereotypes regarding their racial group. However, these proposed associations remain largely theoretical in nature and have yet to be examined empirically. The present study addresses this gap by exploring the relationship between critical reflection, raci…
Grandparents as overlooked agents for emotion socialization: A two-study investigation of adult grandchildren and grandmothers with young grandchildren
Grandparents are involved in grandchildren’s lives in ways that may directly or indirectly teach grandchildren about emotions; yet grandparents’ emotion socialization has not been systematically examined to date. We conducted two studies with US samples examining grandparents’ role as emotion socialization agents. In Study 1, US adults recruited through MTurk ( N = 100; age 26–44 years; 10% Black or African American, 7% Asian American, 79% White,…
A Narrative Review of Parental Academic Socialization and Other Verbal Forms of Academic Involvement Predicting Youth’s Academic Outcomes Among Latinx Families
A Thematic Analysis of Low-Income African American Fathers’ Meta-Emotion Interview Responses
This study explored African American fathers’ beliefs about and experiences with their own and their children’s negative emotions. Participants included 58 African American fathers in the Midwestern region of the United States between the ages of 29 and 40 ( M age = 30.94). Participants completed the Meta-Emotion Interview, a semi-structured interview of parents’ and their children’s negative emotion. A theoretical thematic analysis of participan…
Processes Underlying Black American Emerging Adults' Mental Health: Examining the Roles of Mental Health Literacy, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and Self-Care
The present study examined whether mental health literacy (MHL) informed self-care and, in turn, mental health among Black emerging adults. Various components of ethnic-racial identity (ERI), including exploration, resolution, affirmation, and centrality, were tested as moderators of the associations between MHL and self-care. Participants were 166 Black American emerging adults ( Mage = 19.48, SD = .74). Findings indicated that among individuals…
Profiles of Latinx cultural orientation among adolescents: Associations with internalizing symptoms and moderation by ethnic–racial discrimination
INTRODUCTION: The objectives of the current study were the following: (1) to explore multidimensional profiles of Latinx cultural orientation using Spanish language use, familismo, and ethnic-racial identity (ERI) affirmation among Latinx adolescents, (2) to test how Latinx cultural orientation profiles were associated with adolescents' internalizing symptoms (i.e., depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms), and (3) to test whether associations b…
The Moderating Role of Discrimination in the Association between Same-Race/Ethnicity Friends and Negative Ethnic-Racial Identity Affect over Time
The current study assessed the moderating role of perceived discrimination on the association between same-race/ethnicity friends and negative ethnic-racial identity (ERI) affect among Asian, Black, and Latinx students of color over time. Diverse college students ages 18-25 (73.7% female) provided self-reports of same-race/ethnicity friends, racial discrimination, and negative ERI affect at the beginning of a semester (T1) and end of a semester 4…
Narrative Review: Examining the Associations Between Ethnic-Racial Identity and Mental Health Outcomes Among African American Emerging Adults and Adults
Given the prevalence of racism in the United States that has led to the increase of adverse mental health outcomes and disparities in care among African Americans, ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is a significant cultural resource that may be beneficial in understanding African American's mental health outcomes. This narrative review aimed to summarize and synthesize the existing literature on the associations between African Americans' ERI and ment…
Roles of Racial Ecologies on Black Adolescents’ Coping with Racism
Drawing from Spencer’s phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST), this study examines how Black adolescents navigate racism-related stress, ethnic-racial socialization, and critical reflection as racial ecologies, and their association with coping strategies. Additionally, we explore critical action, a unique coping strategy related to critical consciousness. Using latent profile analysis, data from 200 Black adolescents (M ag…
Cultural Socialization and Civic Engagement Among Racially Diverse Students of Color: Examining Ethnic-Racial Identity Components as Mediators and Neighborhood Racial Composition as a Moderator
Understanding the factors that promote civic engagement among emerging adult college students is crucial, especially considering its association with positive youth development. The current study examined ethnic-racial identity (ERI) exploration, resolution, and affirmation as mediators of the relation between cultural socialization and civic engagement. Additionally, the extent to which students were raised in predominantly minoritized neighborh…
Family Relationships and Academic Performance Mediated by Belongingness: Examining Sex Differences among Cuban Students
The current study focused on processes underlying Cuban students’ academic performance. Using path analyses, the model examined the relations between family relationships and academic performance mediated by belongingness and moderated by sex differences among Cuban medical students (N = 613; M age = 21.39, SD = 2.05). Findings indicated that improved family relationships significantly predicted increased belongingness to the field of medicine fo…
Mapping How Teachers Become Culturally Responsive
Research on how teachers become culturally responsive tends to focus on preservice teachers or on the professional development activities that are associated with change for inservice teachers. Little is known about how the various elements of culturally responsive teaching-including knowledge, skills, and fundamental orientations-interact with one another as teachers change. This case study followed 19 educators across four schools and over 2 ye…
Emotions as Fixatives for Children’s Understandings About the World: The Role of Emotion in Socializing Race and Gender Attitudes
Parents’ emotions provide unintentional and intentional communications to their children, attaching themselves to the messages that children receive about the ways of the world. Both theory and research suggest that parents’ emotions impact children’s learning and activate children’s affective orientations to objects, concepts, and people. Applying these concepts to real-life problems, this chapter explores the role of emotions as a “fixative” in…
Black College Students’ Ethnic Identity and Academic Achievement: Examining Mental Health and Racial Discrimination as Moderators
The purpose of the current study was to test the role that components of ethnic identity (i.e., exploration and resolution) play in academic achievement, and to examine mental health, racial discrimination, and gender as moderators of these associations among Black college students. Participants included 341 college students who identified as a Black/African American female or male ( M age = 18.4; SD = .34), and completed measures of ethnic ident…
Cultural Socialization and Ethnic-Racial Identity Mediated by Positive and Negative Conversations about Race: Exploring Differences among Asian American, African American, Latinx, Multiracial, and Whi…
The current study examined associations between cultural socialization and ethnic-racial identity via positive and negative conversations about one’s ethnicity/race. Ethnic-racial differences between Asian American, African American, Latinx, Multiracial, and White students were explored. College students 18–22 (M age = 18.46) participating in a university-wide study provided self-reports of childhood cultural socialization, engagement in conversa…
Centering the Heterogeneity of Black Adolescents' Experiences: Guidance for Within‐Group Designs among African Diasporic Communities
Despite notable improvements in theory and methods that center the lived experiences of Black adolescents, White supremacy endures in developmental science. In this article, we focus on one methodological manifestation of White supremacy—sampling decisions that assume Black adolescents are a homogeneous group. We examine overlooked concerns about within‐group designs with Black adolescents, such as the erasure of some African diasporic communitie…
Socioemotional competence in context: Black adolescent boys' socioemotional competence, neighborhood‐school racial (in)congruence, and social adjustment
The current study examined patterns of Black adolescent boys' socioemotional competence (SEC) in the midst of racial (in)congruence of their neighborhood and school contexts and the associations of these patterns with self- and teacher-reported social adjustment. Data collected from 417 Black adolescent boys in 7th-11th grade were analyzed using a multilevel class analysis to derive student-level classes of SEC and neighborhood racial composition…
Concordant and Discordant Patterns of Parental Racial Socialization among Biracial Black-White Adolescents: Correlates and Consequences
Effects of Receiving Genetic Ancestry Results on Emerging Adults’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Affirmation
Ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is associated with adaptive outcomes in emerging adulthood, but more research is needed on factors that may inform ERI, such as receiving one’s genetic ancestry results. The current study examined changes in ERI using a pre-test post-test design in which 116 emerging adults 18–25 years were randomly assigned to either receiving their genetic ancestry results before the post-test (the testing condition) or after post-t…
Mexican-origin 5-year-old children’s ethnic-racial identity centrality and attitudes predicting social functioning
Findings highlight the importance of fostering children's positive ethnic-racial attitudes and helping them discuss and cope with negative ethnic-racial attitudes to promote more adaptive social functioning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Black Emotions Matter: Understanding the Impact of Racial Oppression on Black Youth’s Emotional Development
Black US Americans' emotions are subject to stereotypes about the anger and aggression of Black people. These stereotypes are readily applied to Black adolescents' emotions. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to operationalize racial oppression in the emotional lives of Black adolescents through an application of García Coll et al.'s (1996) ecological model for minority youth development. We specify emotionally inhibitive features of Black a…
Call to action: Centering blackness and disrupting systemic racism in infant mental health research and academic publishing
The Infant Mental Health Journal is committed to ending systemic racism and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic publishing. IMHJ unequivocally denounces all forms of racism and white supremacy, including systemic racism in academic publishing. We commit to investigating and working to terminate the ways in which systemic racism has become normalized in academic publishing, including examining our practices and processes at IMHJ…
Cultural Racism and Depression in Black Adolescents: Examining Racial Socialization and Racial Identity as Moderators
The current study explored parental racial socialization and racial regard as moderators of the effects of cultural racism on depression symptoms among Black adolescents (N = 604, M age = 15.44). When adolescents reported lower private regard and lower cultural pride messages or higher public regard and lower alertness to discrimination messages, the negative effects of cultural racism on depression symptoms were exacerbated. When adolescents rep…
Relating through Oppression: Longitudinal Relations between Parental Racial Socialization, School Racial Climate, Oppressed Minority Ideology, and Empathy in Black Male Adolescents’ Prosocial Developm…
This research explored whether Black male adolescents' (N = 453; M age = 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 w…
Prosocial Behaviors of Black Adolescent Boys: An Application of a Sociopolitical Development Theory
Sociopolitical development theory asserts that critical social analysis informs prosocial behaviors. We suggest that one aspect of Black adolescents' critical social analysis development is an oppression analysis, in which Black adolescents consider (1) the importance of race to they are, (2) their personal feelings about their racial group, and (3) the experience of oppression for minority groups. The current study examined oppression analysis a…
Trajectories of Online Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning Among African American and Latino Adolescents
This study investigated trajectories of individual and vicarious online racial discrimination (ORD) and their associations with psychological outcomes for African American and Latinx adolescents in 6th-12th grade (N = 522; M grade = 9th) across three waves. Data were analyzed using growth mixture modeling to estimate trajectories for ORD and to determine the effects of each trajectory on Wave 3 depressive symptoms, anxiety, and self-esteem. Resul…
Black Emotions Matter: Understanding the Impact of Racial Oppression on Black Youth’s Emotional Development
Black US Americans' emotions are subject to stereotypes about the anger and aggression of Black people. These stereotypes are readily applied to Black adolescents' emotions. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to operationalize racial oppression in the emotional lives of Black adolescents through an application of García Coll et al.'s (1996) ecological model for minority youth development. We specify emotionally inhibitive features of Black a…
Cultural Racism and Depression in Black Adolescents: Examining Racial Socialization and Racial Identity as Moderators
The current study explored parental racial socialization and racial regard as moderators of the effects of cultural racism on depression symptoms among Black adolescents (N = 604, M age = 15.44). When adolescents reported lower private regard and lower cultural pride messages or higher public regard and lower alertness to discrimination messages, the negative effects of cultural racism on depression symptoms were exacerbated. When adolescents rep…
Relating through Oppression: Longitudinal Relations between Parental Racial Socialization, School Racial Climate, Oppressed Minority Ideology, and Empathy in Black Male Adolescents’ Prosocial Developm…
This research explored whether Black male adolescents' (N = 453; M age = 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 w…
Exploration of bidirectionality in African American and Latinx adolescents’ offline and online ethnic-racial discrimination
Findings may be used to redefine current theoretical frameworks that assert the bidirectional nature of online and offline experiences, particularly in the domain of ethnic-racial discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
The associations between African American emerging adults’ racial discrimination and civic engagement via emotion regulation
The current study highlights the need to consider the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on college students' sociopolitical development and civic engagement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Associations between ethnic-racial identity and alcohol problems among diverse emerging adults
Excessive alcohol use and problems during college is a major public health concern, and there are health disparities in patterns of drinking and alcohol-related illnesses based on ethnicity and race. Given the prevalence and disparities in excessive alcohol use and problems and associated negative impacts, it is important to examine potential protective factors such as dimensions of ethnic-racial identity (ERI). Thus, the current study examined h…
Cultural Socialization and Civic Engagement Among Racially Diverse Students of Color: Examining Ethnic-Racial Identity Components as Mediators and Neighborhood Racial Composition as a Moderator
Understanding the factors that promote civic engagement among emerging adult college students is crucial, especially considering its association with positive youth development. The current study examined ethnic-racial identity (ERI) exploration, resolution, and affirmation as mediators of the relation between cultural socialization and civic engagement. Additionally, the extent to which students were raised in predominantly minoritized neighborh…
Concordant and Discordant Patterns of Parental Racial Socialization among Biracial Black-White Adolescents: Correlates and Consequences
Call to action: Centering blackness and disrupting systemic racism in infant mental health research and academic publishing
The Infant Mental Health Journal is committed to ending systemic racism and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic publishing. IMHJ unequivocally denounces all forms of racism and white supremacy, including systemic racism in academic publishing. We commit to investigating and working to terminate the ways in which systemic racism has become normalized in academic publishing, including examining our practices and processes at IMHJ…
School-Based Social-Emotional Learning and Ethnic-Racial Identity Among African American and Latino Adolescents
This study sheds light on the interrelations of universal, school-based social-emotional learning strategies and ethnic-racial identity over time. We assessed exposure to social-emotional learning practices and ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution among 367 middle school students (70% African American, 30% Latinx; 51% girls) across 3 years. The results of a latent growth model with social-emotional learning practices as a time-varyin…
Narrative Review: Examining the Associations Between Ethnic-Racial Identity and Mental Health Outcomes Among African American Emerging Adults and Adults
Given the prevalence of racism in the United States that has led to the increase of adverse mental health outcomes and disparities in care among African Americans, ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is a significant cultural resource that may be beneficial in understanding African American's mental health outcomes. This narrative review aimed to summarize and synthesize the existing literature on the associations between African Americans' ERI and ment…
Mapping How Teachers Become Culturally Responsive
Research on how teachers become culturally responsive tends to focus on preservice teachers or on the professional development activities that are associated with change for inservice teachers. Little is known about how the various elements of culturally responsive teaching-including knowledge, skills, and fundamental orientations-interact with one another as teachers change. This case study followed 19 educators across four schools and over 2 ye…
A Thematic Analysis of Low-Income African American Fathers’ Meta-Emotion Interview Responses
This study explored African American fathers’ beliefs about and experiences with their own and their children’s negative emotions. Participants included 58 African American fathers in the Midwestern region of the United States between the ages of 29 and 40 ( M age = 30.94). Participants completed the Meta-Emotion Interview, a semi-structured interview of parents’ and their children’s negative emotion. A theoretical thematic analysis of participan…
Processes Underlying Black American Emerging Adults' Mental Health: Examining the Roles of Mental Health Literacy, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and Self-Care
The present study examined whether mental health literacy (MHL) informed self-care and, in turn, mental health among Black emerging adults. Various components of ethnic-racial identity (ERI), including exploration, resolution, affirmation, and centrality, were tested as moderators of the associations between MHL and self-care. Participants were 166 Black American emerging adults ( Mage = 19.48, SD = .74). Findings indicated that among individuals…
Roles of Racial Ecologies on Black Adolescents’ Coping with Racism
Drawing from Spencer’s phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST), this study examines how Black adolescents navigate racism-related stress, ethnic-racial socialization, and critical reflection as racial ecologies, and their association with coping strategies. Additionally, we explore critical action, a unique coping strategy related to critical consciousness. Using latent profile analysis, data from 200 Black adolescents (M ag…
Early Emotional Development and Cultural Variability
Prosocial Behaviors of Black Adolescent Boys: An Application of a Sociopolitical Development Theory
Sociopolitical development theory asserts that critical social analysis informs prosocial behaviors. We suggest that one aspect of Black adolescents' critical social analysis development is an oppression analysis, in which Black adolescents consider (1) the importance of race to they are, (2) their personal feelings about their racial group, and (3) the experience of oppression for minority groups. The current study examined oppression analysis a…
The associations between African American emerging adults’ racial discrimination and civic engagement via emotion regulation
The current study highlights the need to consider the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on college students' sociopolitical development and civic engagement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Exploration of bidirectionality in African American and Latinx adolescents’ offline and online ethnic-racial discrimination
Findings may be used to redefine current theoretical frameworks that assert the bidirectional nature of online and offline experiences, particularly in the domain of ethnic-racial discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Associations between ethnic-racial identity and alcohol problems among diverse emerging adults
Excessive alcohol use and problems during college is a major public health concern, and there are health disparities in patterns of drinking and alcohol-related illnesses based on ethnicity and race. Given the prevalence and disparities in excessive alcohol use and problems and associated negative impacts, it is important to examine potential protective factors such as dimensions of ethnic-racial identity (ERI). Thus, the current study examined h…
Trajectories of Online Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning Among African American and Latino Adolescents
This study investigated trajectories of individual and vicarious online racial discrimination (ORD) and their associations with psychological outcomes for African American and Latinx adolescents in 6th-12th grade (N = 522; M grade = 9th) across three waves. Data were analyzed using growth mixture modeling to estimate trajectories for ORD and to determine the effects of each trajectory on Wave 3 depressive symptoms, anxiety, and self-esteem. Resul…
School-Based Social-Emotional Learning and Ethnic-Racial Identity Among African American and Latino Adolescents
This study sheds light on the interrelations of universal, school-based social-emotional learning strategies and ethnic-racial identity over time. We assessed exposure to social-emotional learning practices and ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution among 367 middle school students (70% African American, 30% Latinx; 51% girls) across 3 years. The results of a latent growth model with social-emotional learning practices as a time-varyin…
Effects of Receiving Genetic Ancestry Results on Emerging Adults’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Affirmation
Ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is associated with adaptive outcomes in emerging adulthood, but more research is needed on factors that may inform ERI, such as receiving one’s genetic ancestry results. The current study examined changes in ERI using a pre-test post-test design in which 116 emerging adults 18–25 years were randomly assigned to either receiving their genetic ancestry results before the post-test (the testing condition) or after post-t…
Mexican-origin 5-year-old children’s ethnic-racial identity centrality and attitudes predicting social functioning
Findings highlight the importance of fostering children's positive ethnic-racial attitudes and helping them discuss and cope with negative ethnic-racial attitudes to promote more adaptive social functioning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Black Emotions Matter: Understanding the Impact of Racial Oppression on Black Youth’s Emotional Development
Black US Americans' emotions are subject to stereotypes about the anger and aggression of Black people. These stereotypes are readily applied to Black adolescents' emotions. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to operationalize racial oppression in the emotional lives of Black adolescents through an application of García Coll et al.'s (1996) ecological model for minority youth development. We specify emotionally inhibitive features of Black a…
Call to action: Centering blackness and disrupting systemic racism in infant mental health research and academic publishing
The Infant Mental Health Journal is committed to ending systemic racism and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in academic publishing. IMHJ unequivocally denounces all forms of racism and white supremacy, including systemic racism in academic publishing. We commit to investigating and working to terminate the ways in which systemic racism has become normalized in academic publishing, including examining our practices and processes at IMHJ…
Cultural Racism and Depression in Black Adolescents: Examining Racial Socialization and Racial Identity as Moderators
The current study explored parental racial socialization and racial regard as moderators of the effects of cultural racism on depression symptoms among Black adolescents (N = 604, M age = 15.44). When adolescents reported lower private regard and lower cultural pride messages or higher public regard and lower alertness to discrimination messages, the negative effects of cultural racism on depression symptoms were exacerbated. When adolescents rep…
Relating through Oppression: Longitudinal Relations between Parental Racial Socialization, School Racial Climate, Oppressed Minority Ideology, and Empathy in Black Male Adolescents’ Prosocial Developm…
This research explored whether Black male adolescents' (N = 453; M age = 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 w…
Emotions as Fixatives for Children’s Understandings About the World: The Role of Emotion in Socializing Race and Gender Attitudes
Parents’ emotions provide unintentional and intentional communications to their children, attaching themselves to the messages that children receive about the ways of the world. Both theory and research suggest that parents’ emotions impact children’s learning and activate children’s affective orientations to objects, concepts, and people. Applying these concepts to real-life problems, this chapter explores the role of emotions as a “fixative” in…
Black College Students’ Ethnic Identity and Academic Achievement: Examining Mental Health and Racial Discrimination as Moderators
The purpose of the current study was to test the role that components of ethnic identity (i.e., exploration and resolution) play in academic achievement, and to examine mental health, racial discrimination, and gender as moderators of these associations among Black college students. Participants included 341 college students who identified as a Black/African American female or male ( M age = 18.4; SD = .34), and completed measures of ethnic ident…
Cultural Socialization and Ethnic-Racial Identity Mediated by Positive and Negative Conversations about Race: Exploring Differences among Asian American, African American, Latinx, Multiracial, and Whi…
The current study examined associations between cultural socialization and ethnic-racial identity via positive and negative conversations about one’s ethnicity/race. Ethnic-racial differences between Asian American, African American, Latinx, Multiracial, and White students were explored. College students 18–22 (M age = 18.46) participating in a university-wide study provided self-reports of childhood cultural socialization, engagement in conversa…
Centering the Heterogeneity of Black Adolescents' Experiences: Guidance for Within‐Group Designs among African Diasporic Communities
Despite notable improvements in theory and methods that center the lived experiences of Black adolescents, White supremacy endures in developmental science. In this article, we focus on one methodological manifestation of White supremacy—sampling decisions that assume Black adolescents are a homogeneous group. We examine overlooked concerns about within‐group designs with Black adolescents, such as the erasure of some African diasporic communitie…
Socioemotional competence in context: Black adolescent boys' socioemotional competence, neighborhood‐school racial (in)congruence, and social adjustment
The current study examined patterns of Black adolescent boys' socioemotional competence (SEC) in the midst of racial (in)congruence of their neighborhood and school contexts and the associations of these patterns with self- and teacher-reported social adjustment. Data collected from 417 Black adolescent boys in 7th-11th grade were analyzed using a multilevel class analysis to derive student-level classes of SEC and neighborhood racial composition…
Concordant and Discordant Patterns of Parental Racial Socialization among Biracial Black-White Adolescents: Correlates and Consequences
Family Relationships and Academic Performance Mediated by Belongingness: Examining Sex Differences among Cuban Students
The current study focused on processes underlying Cuban students’ academic performance. Using path analyses, the model examined the relations between family relationships and academic performance mediated by belongingness and moderated by sex differences among Cuban medical students (N = 613; M age = 21.39, SD = 2.05). Findings indicated that improved family relationships significantly predicted increased belongingness to the field of medicine fo…
Mapping How Teachers Become Culturally Responsive
Research on how teachers become culturally responsive tends to focus on preservice teachers or on the professional development activities that are associated with change for inservice teachers. Little is known about how the various elements of culturally responsive teaching-including knowledge, skills, and fundamental orientations-interact with one another as teachers change. This case study followed 19 educators across four schools and over 2 ye…
Profiles of Latinx cultural orientation among adolescents: Associations with internalizing symptoms and moderation by ethnic–racial discrimination
INTRODUCTION: The objectives of the current study were the following: (1) to explore multidimensional profiles of Latinx cultural orientation using Spanish language use, familismo, and ethnic-racial identity (ERI) affirmation among Latinx adolescents, (2) to test how Latinx cultural orientation profiles were associated with adolescents' internalizing symptoms (i.e., depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms), and (3) to test whether associations b…
The Moderating Role of Discrimination in the Association between Same-Race/Ethnicity Friends and Negative Ethnic-Racial Identity Affect over Time
The current study assessed the moderating role of perceived discrimination on the association between same-race/ethnicity friends and negative ethnic-racial identity (ERI) affect among Asian, Black, and Latinx students of color over time. Diverse college students ages 18-25 (73.7% female) provided self-reports of same-race/ethnicity friends, racial discrimination, and negative ERI affect at the beginning of a semester (T1) and end of a semester 4…
Narrative Review: Examining the Associations Between Ethnic-Racial Identity and Mental Health Outcomes Among African American Emerging Adults and Adults
Given the prevalence of racism in the United States that has led to the increase of adverse mental health outcomes and disparities in care among African Americans, ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is a significant cultural resource that may be beneficial in understanding African American's mental health outcomes. This narrative review aimed to summarize and synthesize the existing literature on the associations between African Americans' ERI and ment…
Roles of Racial Ecologies on Black Adolescents’ Coping with Racism
Drawing from Spencer’s phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (PVEST), this study examines how Black adolescents navigate racism-related stress, ethnic-racial socialization, and critical reflection as racial ecologies, and their association with coping strategies. Additionally, we explore critical action, a unique coping strategy related to critical consciousness. Using latent profile analysis, data from 200 Black adolescents (M ag…
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