Dawn P Witherspoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 91028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawn P Witherspoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawn P |
| FAMILY NAME | Witherspoon |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERSPOON D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1924-2611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 289 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Listening to teachers: Facilitating content and conditions for addressing issues of racism and xenophobia with youth in schools
Teachers are uniquely positioned to promote racial and immigration justice in schools. This study draws on interviews with a U.S. educator sample (N = 26; 50% ethnoracially minoritized; 42.3% pre-K or elementary, 15.4% middle school, 34.6% high school) from a needs assessment for a public scholarship effort aimed at providing resources to advance anti-racism and anti-xenophobia. Combining a rigorous and accelerated data reduction (RADaR) method a…
What do parents want? Relevant content and formats for resources to address issues of racism, antiracism, and xenophobia with youth
The Influence of Neighborhood on Infant Parasympathetic Nervous System Development
The adaptive calibration model (ACM) asserts that the stress response system, including the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), conditionally adapts to one's environment. In infancy, the proximal context of parental influences (e.g., maternal depression/anxiety) affects the development of the infant stress response system. In contrast, the relation between broader contexts, such as neighborhood environment, and infant PNS development is less we…
Exploring the Links Between Neighborhood Characteristics, Parental Monitoring, and Deviance Among Black and Latinx Adolescents in a New Destination Context
This study examined the moderating role of parental monitoring in the relation between neighborhood structural characteristics, social processes, and Black and Latinx youth's deviant behavior in new destination neighborhoods, areas with limited historical immigrant migration, and few co-ethnic immigrants reside. The study included 120 self-identified Black (N = 55) and Latinx (N = 65) youths and 120 corresponding caregivers. Path analysis and mul…
Parenting in African American families: Profiles of general and culturally specific dimensions of parent–adolescent relationships during late adolescence
Developmental and parenting frameworks suggest that factors at the individual-level and multiple levels of adolescents' contexts are important determinants of how African American parents prepare their children to live in a racially stratified society. Using a person-centered approach, this study explored heterogeneity in profiles of African American parent-adolescent relationships (PARs) using indicators of parent-reported ethnic-racial socializ…
Diversity and Developmental Science: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy
This book examines the challenges faced by scientists as the population under the age of 18 has become a majority-minority, with no racial/ethnic group
Trajectories of discrimination among Chinese American youth: Variation, predictors, and outcomes
Using 3 waves of longitudinal data from 444 Chinese American adolescents (M age = 13.04 at Wave 1, 54% identified as women), the current study explored if there was variation in discrimination trajectories from early to late adolescence and whether contextual and individual factors predicted trajectories as well as if trajectories were associated with academic achievement and mental health. Three distinct discrimination trajectories were identifi…
Diversity and Developmental Science: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy
Reciprocal links between marijuana use and school adjustment in Black and White rural adolescents
Although research has established that school adjustment is associated with marijuana use (MU) in adolescence, few studies have tested these associations bidirectionally. Using random intercepts cross-lagged panel modeling, this study examined reciprocal associations between MU and school adjustment across 8th to 10th grade, including the transition to high school. Participants included 5470 rural adolescents (59% White, 41% Black) aged 12–17 yea…
The Associations between Contextual and Cultural Stressors, Internalizing Symptoms, and Social Support
The current study aims to examine the associations between neighborhood safety, racial-ethnic discrimination, and depressive symptoms, as well as explore social support as a protective factor using the Minority Stress Model for three different BIPOC groups (i.e. African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican). African American and Latino youth living in urban environments often encounter multiple stressors at the same time, and it is critical to l…
Invisibly Oppressed: Individual and Ecological Correlates of Chinese American Adolescents’ Perceived Discrimination
Despite being portrayed as model minorities, Chinese American adolescents still face challenges of discrimination. Using data from 444 Chinese American adolescents (M age = 13.04, 54% female), this study examined the independent and joint influence of individual cultural characteristics (adolescents' acculturation and enculturation) and contextual factors (parental discrimination experiences, neighborhood disadvantage, and ethnic concentration) o…
Dismantling systems of racism and oppression during adolescence: An agenda for anti‐racist research
In reflecting on the collection of work in the recent Journal of Research on Adolescence special series and what it means for research to dismantle systems of racism and oppression, we call for adolescent development researchers to embrace anti-racist research. We describe a set of strategies for conceptualizing, conducting, and disseminating research with adolescents using an anti-racist lens. These strategies flow from tenets of anti-racist res…
Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble: Expanding Thinking and Research on Youth of Color’s Resistance to Oppression
This special section focuses on resistance and activism among youth of color, and is the last installment of a four-part special series on "Dismantling Systems of Racism and Oppression during Adolescence." Using diverse methods, nine papers and two commentaries shed important light on youth of color's resistance to racism and other forms of oppression and identify factors that inform the development of sociopolitical actions. In this introduction…
Daily Discrimination and Affect in Latinx Adolescent‐Parent Dyads Residing in Northeast United States
In this 14-day study, we tested whether Latinx adolescents' (M age = 12.76 years, 52% female; 52% U.S. born; N = 21) and parents' (95% female; 24% U.S. born) daily discrimination experiences were associated with their own and other's daily affective states. Results indicated that on days when adolescents reported discrimination, they reported higher negative affect and marginally lower positive affect and, interestingly, parents reported higher p…
Black Lives Matter! Adolescent Research Incrementally Dismantles Racism and Systems of Oppression
This Black Lives Matter! Special Issue uses diverse methods to examine how multiple systems of oppression at different levels (individual, institutional, and structural) affect Black youth. Through an intersectionality lens, scholars examine how gender, sexual orientation, skin tone, and socioeconomic status create unique experiences for Black youth. Collectively, the 17 papers address the sweeping impact of racism and other systems of oppression…
Dismantling Systems and Improving Contexts to Support the Development of Bipoc Youth
The issue's collection of 17 papers apply a wide range of developmental, contextual, intersectional, and critical perspectives (and their combinations) to promote understanding on how oppressive systems intersect and overlap in detrimental ways for BIPOC youth development. Innovative conceptual models and a variety of methodological techniques advance our understanding of the lived experiences of BIPOC youth who interact daily in contexts such as…
Adolescent Development in Context: A Decade Review of Neighborhood and Activity Space Research
Over the last decade, two lines of inquiry have emerged from earlier investigations of adolescent neighborhood effects. First, researchers began incorporating space‐time geography to study adolescent development within activity spaces or routine activity locations and settings. Second, cultural‐developmental researchers implicated neighborhood settings in cultural development, to capture neighborhood effects on competencies and processes that are…
Embracing Race, Resisting Oppression: African American Parents as Experienced Guides for Navigating Racial Oppression
This study examined how discrimination experiences, beliefs, and coping in middle adolescence contributed to heterogeneity in African American parent-adolescent relationship (PAR) profiles three years later. Data were from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study in which 589 African American caregivers (92% female; M age = 39.15, SD = 6.72; range = 27-74 years old) were interviewed when youth were in 8th and 11th grades. We used prev…
Neighborhood‐level predictors of African American and Latinx parents' ethnic–racial socialization
Few studies examine how neighborhood structural factors (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES] and diversity) and perceived disorder may influence the messages parents communicate to their youth about race/ethnicity. Guided by the integrative model and social disorganization theory, this study examines how parents' ethnic-racial socialization messages (ERS) are shaped by the broader environment. Data come from the MacArthur Studies of Diversity in Mid…
Latinx youth's ethnic‐racial identity in context: Examining ethnic‐racial socialization in a new destination area
The current study examined how ethnic‐racial socialization (i.e., ERS; cultural socialization, preparation for bias) is shaped by neighborhood characteristics and parents’ perceived discrimination, as well as how ERS shapes youth ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) among Latinx parent‐adolescent dyads ( N = 69) living in a new destination area (i.e., not historically settled by Latinx populations). Results showed that neighborhood diversity was positive…
Chinese American adolescents’ academic performance and psychological adjustment: The role of neighborhood and family
Hidden populations: Uncovering the developmental experiences of minoritized populations across contexts
This introduction to the special section on hidden populations across contexts in developmental science defines what is meant by "hidden populations" and summarizes the studies along thematic lines. Hidden populations are generally minoritized populations embedded in larger systems of oppression and inequality encapsulated within historical time and place, and importantly, they are underrepresented in developmental science. The set of 8 empirical…
Patterns of Social Connectedness and Psychosocial Wellbeing among African American and Caribbean Black Adolescents
Maintaining and attaining educational expectations: A two-cohort longitudinal study of Hispanic youth
Hispanic adolescents have high expectations for their own educational attainment, but educational attainment outcomes for Hispanic young adults are relatively low on average. Limited scholarship links Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations with attainment in adulthood. Using a longitudinal within-group approach, the authors examined changes in Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations from 10th to 12th grade as well as the discrepanc…
It's More the Exception Rather Than the Rule: African American Families' Neighborhoods and Youth's Academic Performance During Middle School
Neighborhoods are an important part of the social milieu of adolescence and academic performance. Using experiential neighborhood profiles, this study examined risks and assets to determine how neighborhood structural and relational dynamics were associated with academic achievement during early adolescence. The sample included 723 African American socioeconomically diverse families ( Myouth age = 12.27 years, SD = 0.55). Results showed that neig…
Received ethnic–racial socialization messages and youths’ academic and behavioral outcomes: Examining the mediating role of ethnic identity and self-esteem
The authors examined relationships between cultural socialization and preparation for bias and youth outcomes. Using data from 805 African American and White early adolescents attending school in an integrated middle-class suburban school district in the northeastern United States, the authors hypothesized that ethnic affirmation and self-esteem would mediate relations between ethnic-racial socialization and more distal academic and behavioral ou…
Racial Identity From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Does Prior Neighborhood Experience Matter
This study examined the influence of earlier neighborhood experiences on trajectories of racial centrality and regard among Black youth. Data were drawn from a sample of Black 11- to 14-year-old youth (N = 718) in the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study, a data set that permits the examination of structural and subjective neighborhood influences. Results suggest that centrality increases, whereas public regard remains relatively stab…
Neighborhood‐level predictors of African American and Latinx parents' ethnic–racial socialization
Few studies examine how neighborhood structural factors (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES] and diversity) and perceived disorder may influence the messages parents communicate to their youth about race/ethnicity. Guided by the integrative model and social disorganization theory, this study examines how parents' ethnic-racial socialization messages (ERS) are shaped by the broader environment. Data come from the MacArthur Studies of Diversity in Mid…
Racial‐ethnic Identity in Context: Examining Mediation of Neighborhood Factors on Children's Academic Adjustment
Research consistently shows that neighborhood socio-demographic characteristics and residents' neighborhood perceptions matter for youth well-being, including a positive sense of racial-ethnic identity. Although elementary-school children are likely in the earlier phases of identity formation, the authors examined whether objective and subjective neighborhood characteristics are related to their racial-ethnic identity and, in turn, their academic…
Early Adolescent Perceptions of Neighborhood: Strengths, Structural Disadvantage, and Relations to Outcomes
Considerable evidence shows the detriments of neighborhood social disorganization for urban youth. Researchers have focused less on potential neighborhood strengths or on the interplay of neighborhood perceptions and objective neighborhood characteristics. The authors examined the presence and perception of positive and negative neighborhood characteristics among urban ethnically diverse families, the similarity in early adolescents’ and mothers’…
Maintaining and attaining educational expectations: A two-cohort longitudinal study of Hispanic youth
Hispanic adolescents have high expectations for their own educational attainment, but educational attainment outcomes for Hispanic young adults are relatively low on average. Limited scholarship links Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations with attainment in adulthood. Using a longitudinal within-group approach, the authors examined changes in Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations from 10th to 12th grade as well as the discrepanc…
Black Lives Matter! Adolescent Research Incrementally Dismantles Racism and Systems of Oppression
This Black Lives Matter! Special Issue uses diverse methods to examine how multiple systems of oppression at different levels (individual, institutional, and structural) affect Black youth. Through an intersectionality lens, scholars examine how gender, sexual orientation, skin tone, and socioeconomic status create unique experiences for Black youth. Collectively, the 17 papers address the sweeping impact of racism and other systems of oppression…
Latinx youth's ethnic‐racial identity in context: Examining ethnic‐racial socialization in a new destination area
The current study examined how ethnic‐racial socialization (i.e., ERS; cultural socialization, preparation for bias) is shaped by neighborhood characteristics and parents’ perceived discrimination, as well as how ERS shapes youth ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) among Latinx parent‐adolescent dyads ( N = 69) living in a new destination area (i.e., not historically settled by Latinx populations). Results showed that neighborhood diversity was positive…
Stability and Change in Rural Youths’ Educational Outcomes Through the Middle and High School Years
Patterns of Social Connectedness and Psychosocial Wellbeing among African American and Caribbean Black Adolescents
Longitudinal Associations of Language Brokering and Parent-Adolescent Closeness in Immigrant Latino Families
Language brokering is a common practice for Latino youth with immigrant parents. Yet little is known about how youth’s feelings about this responsibility contribute to the parent-adolescent relationship. In this study, we examined the longitudinal associations between language brokering attitudes and parent-adolescent closeness in a sample of Latino early adolescents ( n = 813, Maget1 = 12.32, SDt1 = .59), while taking into account language broke…
An Examination of Social Disorganization and Pluralistic Neighborhood Theories with Rural Mothers and Their Adolescents
Dismantling Systems and Improving Contexts to Support the Development of Bipoc Youth
The issue's collection of 17 papers apply a wide range of developmental, contextual, intersectional, and critical perspectives (and their combinations) to promote understanding on how oppressive systems intersect and overlap in detrimental ways for BIPOC youth development. Innovative conceptual models and a variety of methodological techniques advance our understanding of the lived experiences of BIPOC youth who interact daily in contexts such as…
Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble: Expanding Thinking and Research on Youth of Color’s Resistance to Oppression
This special section focuses on resistance and activism among youth of color, and is the last installment of a four-part special series on "Dismantling Systems of Racism and Oppression during Adolescence." Using diverse methods, nine papers and two commentaries shed important light on youth of color's resistance to racism and other forms of oppression and identify factors that inform the development of sociopolitical actions. In this introduction…
Daily Discrimination and Affect in Latinx Adolescent‐Parent Dyads Residing in Northeast United States
In this 14-day study, we tested whether Latinx adolescents' (M age = 12.76 years, 52% female; 52% U.S. born; N = 21) and parents' (95% female; 24% U.S. born) daily discrimination experiences were associated with their own and other's daily affective states. Results indicated that on days when adolescents reported discrimination, they reported higher negative affect and marginally lower positive affect and, interestingly, parents reported higher p…
Dismantling systems of racism and oppression during adolescence: An agenda for anti‐racist research
In reflecting on the collection of work in the recent Journal of Research on Adolescence special series and what it means for research to dismantle systems of racism and oppression, we call for adolescent development researchers to embrace anti-racist research. We describe a set of strategies for conceptualizing, conducting, and disseminating research with adolescents using an anti-racist lens. These strategies flow from tenets of anti-racist res…
Embracing Race, Resisting Oppression: African American Parents as Experienced Guides for Navigating Racial Oppression
This study examined how discrimination experiences, beliefs, and coping in middle adolescence contributed to heterogeneity in African American parent-adolescent relationship (PAR) profiles three years later. Data were from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study in which 589 African American caregivers (92% female; M age = 39.15, SD = 6.72; range = 27-74 years old) were interviewed when youth were in 8th and 11th grades. We used prev…
Parental Involvement Across Middle and High School: Exploring Contributions of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics
The Associations between Contextual and Cultural Stressors, Internalizing Symptoms, and Social Support
The current study aims to examine the associations between neighborhood safety, racial-ethnic discrimination, and depressive symptoms, as well as explore social support as a protective factor using the Minority Stress Model for three different BIPOC groups (i.e. African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican). African American and Latino youth living in urban environments often encounter multiple stressors at the same time, and it is critical to l…
Hidden populations: Uncovering the developmental experiences of minoritized populations across contexts
This introduction to the special section on hidden populations across contexts in developmental science defines what is meant by "hidden populations" and summarizes the studies along thematic lines. Hidden populations are generally minoritized populations embedded in larger systems of oppression and inequality encapsulated within historical time and place, and importantly, they are underrepresented in developmental science. The set of 8 empirical…
It's More the Exception Rather Than the Rule: African American Families' Neighborhoods and Youth's Academic Performance During Middle School
Neighborhoods are an important part of the social milieu of adolescence and academic performance. Using experiential neighborhood profiles, this study examined risks and assets to determine how neighborhood structural and relational dynamics were associated with academic achievement during early adolescence. The sample included 723 African American socioeconomically diverse families ( Myouth age = 12.27 years, SD = 0.55). Results showed that neig…
An Ecological Approach to Racial Environments and Their Relationship to Mental Health
Examining Socio-Cultural and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Trajectories of Mexican-Origin Mothers’ Education-Related Involvement
Connecting the Dots: How Connectedness to Multiple Contexts Influences the Psychological and Academic Adjustment of Urban Youth
Cluster analyses and hierarchical linear modeling were used to investigate the impact of perceptions of connectedness to family, school, and neighborhood contexts on academic and psycho-social outcomes for 437 urban ethnically diverse adolescents. Five profiles of connectedness to family, school, and neighborhood were identified. Two profiles were characterized by reports of either strong or weak connectedness to all contexts. The other three pro…
Received ethnic–racial socialization messages and youths’ academic and behavioral outcomes: Examining the mediating role of ethnic identity and self-esteem
The authors examined relationships between cultural socialization and preparation for bias and youth outcomes. Using data from 805 African American and White early adolescents attending school in an integrated middle-class suburban school district in the northeastern United States, the authors hypothesized that ethnic affirmation and self-esteem would mediate relations between ethnic-racial socialization and more distal academic and behavioral ou…
Stability and Change in Rural Youths’ Educational Outcomes Through the Middle and High School Years
An Examination of Social Disorganization and Pluralistic Neighborhood Theories with Rural Mothers and Their Adolescents
Early Adolescent Perceptions of Neighborhood: Strengths, Structural Disadvantage, and Relations to Outcomes
Considerable evidence shows the detriments of neighborhood social disorganization for urban youth. Researchers have focused less on potential neighborhood strengths or on the interplay of neighborhood perceptions and objective neighborhood characteristics. The authors examined the presence and perception of positive and negative neighborhood characteristics among urban ethnically diverse families, the similarity in early adolescents’ and mothers’…
Racial Identity From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Does Prior Neighborhood Experience Matter
This study examined the influence of earlier neighborhood experiences on trajectories of racial centrality and regard among Black youth. Data were drawn from a sample of Black 11- to 14-year-old youth (N = 718) in the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study, a data set that permits the examination of structural and subjective neighborhood influences. Results suggest that centrality increases, whereas public regard remains relatively stab…
Parental Involvement Across Middle and High School: Exploring Contributions of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics
Longitudinal Associations of Language Brokering and Parent-Adolescent Closeness in Immigrant Latino Families
Language brokering is a common practice for Latino youth with immigrant parents. Yet little is known about how youth’s feelings about this responsibility contribute to the parent-adolescent relationship. In this study, we examined the longitudinal associations between language brokering attitudes and parent-adolescent closeness in a sample of Latino early adolescents ( n = 813, Maget1 = 12.32, SDt1 = .59), while taking into account language broke…
Racial‐ethnic Identity in Context: Examining Mediation of Neighborhood Factors on Children's Academic Adjustment
Research consistently shows that neighborhood socio-demographic characteristics and residents' neighborhood perceptions matter for youth well-being, including a positive sense of racial-ethnic identity. Although elementary-school children are likely in the earlier phases of identity formation, the authors examined whether objective and subjective neighborhood characteristics are related to their racial-ethnic identity and, in turn, their academic…
An Ecological Approach to Racial Environments and Their Relationship to Mental Health
Examining Socio-Cultural and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Trajectories of Mexican-Origin Mothers’ Education-Related Involvement
It's More the Exception Rather Than the Rule: African American Families' Neighborhoods and Youth's Academic Performance During Middle School
Neighborhoods are an important part of the social milieu of adolescence and academic performance. Using experiential neighborhood profiles, this study examined risks and assets to determine how neighborhood structural and relational dynamics were associated with academic achievement during early adolescence. The sample included 723 African American socioeconomically diverse families ( Myouth age = 12.27 years, SD = 0.55). Results showed that neig…
Patterns of Social Connectedness and Psychosocial Wellbeing among African American and Caribbean Black Adolescents
Maintaining and attaining educational expectations: A two-cohort longitudinal study of Hispanic youth
Hispanic adolescents have high expectations for their own educational attainment, but educational attainment outcomes for Hispanic young adults are relatively low on average. Limited scholarship links Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations with attainment in adulthood. Using a longitudinal within-group approach, the authors examined changes in Hispanic adolescents' educational expectations from 10th to 12th grade as well as the discrepanc…
Chinese American adolescents’ academic performance and psychological adjustment: The role of neighborhood and family
Hidden populations: Uncovering the developmental experiences of minoritized populations across contexts
This introduction to the special section on hidden populations across contexts in developmental science defines what is meant by "hidden populations" and summarizes the studies along thematic lines. Hidden populations are generally minoritized populations embedded in larger systems of oppression and inequality encapsulated within historical time and place, and importantly, they are underrepresented in developmental science. The set of 8 empirical…
Adolescent Development in Context: A Decade Review of Neighborhood and Activity Space Research
Over the last decade, two lines of inquiry have emerged from earlier investigations of adolescent neighborhood effects. First, researchers began incorporating space‐time geography to study adolescent development within activity spaces or routine activity locations and settings. Second, cultural‐developmental researchers implicated neighborhood settings in cultural development, to capture neighborhood effects on competencies and processes that are…
Embracing Race, Resisting Oppression: African American Parents as Experienced Guides for Navigating Racial Oppression
This study examined how discrimination experiences, beliefs, and coping in middle adolescence contributed to heterogeneity in African American parent-adolescent relationship (PAR) profiles three years later. Data were from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study in which 589 African American caregivers (92% female; M age = 39.15, SD = 6.72; range = 27-74 years old) were interviewed when youth were in 8th and 11th grades. We used prev…
Neighborhood‐level predictors of African American and Latinx parents' ethnic–racial socialization
Few studies examine how neighborhood structural factors (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES] and diversity) and perceived disorder may influence the messages parents communicate to their youth about race/ethnicity. Guided by the integrative model and social disorganization theory, this study examines how parents' ethnic-racial socialization messages (ERS) are shaped by the broader environment. Data come from the MacArthur Studies of Diversity in Mid…
Latinx youth's ethnic‐racial identity in context: Examining ethnic‐racial socialization in a new destination area
The current study examined how ethnic‐racial socialization (i.e., ERS; cultural socialization, preparation for bias) is shaped by neighborhood characteristics and parents’ perceived discrimination, as well as how ERS shapes youth ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) among Latinx parent‐adolescent dyads ( N = 69) living in a new destination area (i.e., not historically settled by Latinx populations). Results showed that neighborhood diversity was positive…
Reciprocal links between marijuana use and school adjustment in Black and White rural adolescents
Although research has established that school adjustment is associated with marijuana use (MU) in adolescence, few studies have tested these associations bidirectionally. Using random intercepts cross-lagged panel modeling, this study examined reciprocal associations between MU and school adjustment across 8th to 10th grade, including the transition to high school. Participants included 5470 rural adolescents (59% White, 41% Black) aged 12–17 yea…
The Associations between Contextual and Cultural Stressors, Internalizing Symptoms, and Social Support
The current study aims to examine the associations between neighborhood safety, racial-ethnic discrimination, and depressive symptoms, as well as explore social support as a protective factor using the Minority Stress Model for three different BIPOC groups (i.e. African American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican). African American and Latino youth living in urban environments often encounter multiple stressors at the same time, and it is critical to l…
Invisibly Oppressed: Individual and Ecological Correlates of Chinese American Adolescents’ Perceived Discrimination
Despite being portrayed as model minorities, Chinese American adolescents still face challenges of discrimination. Using data from 444 Chinese American adolescents (M age = 13.04, 54% female), this study examined the independent and joint influence of individual cultural characteristics (adolescents' acculturation and enculturation) and contextual factors (parental discrimination experiences, neighborhood disadvantage, and ethnic concentration) o…
Dismantling systems of racism and oppression during adolescence: An agenda for anti‐racist research
In reflecting on the collection of work in the recent Journal of Research on Adolescence special series and what it means for research to dismantle systems of racism and oppression, we call for adolescent development researchers to embrace anti-racist research. We describe a set of strategies for conceptualizing, conducting, and disseminating research with adolescents using an anti-racist lens. These strategies flow from tenets of anti-racist res…
Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble: Expanding Thinking and Research on Youth of Color’s Resistance to Oppression
This special section focuses on resistance and activism among youth of color, and is the last installment of a four-part special series on "Dismantling Systems of Racism and Oppression during Adolescence." Using diverse methods, nine papers and two commentaries shed important light on youth of color's resistance to racism and other forms of oppression and identify factors that inform the development of sociopolitical actions. In this introduction…
Psychology (34 works) · Developmental psychology (28 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (16 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (15 works) · Ethnic group (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works)