Racism And Socialization

According to the article, racism and discrimination are significant threats to healthy development in African American adolescents and young adults. The recent study examined closely whether two types of parental racial socialization messages lessened the effect of racism on the psychological functioning in a sample of 247 African American college students. This article researches whether parental racial socialization messages shield African American young adults from exposure to everyday racism experiences.
Clark and colleagues (1999) model of racism as a stressor that argues that a person’s judgement of a stressful event as a racist is based on a combo of constitutional, sociodemographic, mental, and behavioral factors. Besides that, they claim that when an even seen as racist, it
brings about a set of coping responses. Also, mental and psychological stress response that to health outcomes. Lastly, they explain that mental factors can moderate the relationship between perception of racist experiences and health. Given the negative effects of racism on mental and physical health, the information parents pass on to their children about how to successfully deal with racism has significant results when understanding psychological functioning in African American young adults.
In present studies taken together, the research suggests that parental racial socialization messages centers on cultural pride and cultural useful coping may have suitable benefits for mental and physical functioning. Messages centralize on reliance on cultural resources such as religion, family, and knowledge of history may lessen psychological problems in people during more often racist experiences because these messages focus on successfully dealing with difficulty in culturally flexible ways. To examine these ideas in more detail, they analyzed whether certain messages reduced the mental and physical effect of racist experiences on psychological functioning. Next, the researchers hypothesized that parental messages centered on the cultural pride and use of cultural resources in successfully dealing with racism obstacles that would lessen the effect of racist experiences on the psychological functioning. As stated in the article, the comparison of students at two separate colleges using one-way ANOVAS showed no differences between students at the HBCU and the PWI on mental/physical stress or distress. Hypothesis 1 showed that more racist experiences would be
connected with poorer psychological functioning. Racism experiences predicted higher psychological stress. The second hypothesis showed that parental messages centered on cultural pride and coping would reduce the effect of racism experiences. In support of hypothesis two, messages focusing on cultural racism coping effected relations between racism and mental stress, they calculated simple effects for both predators. Persistent with the first hypothesis, more racism experiences anticipated more psychological distress. In comparison, there was no connection between racism experiences and mental stress for students describing tremendous levels of messages centralized on cultural resource coping. Cultural pride approximated less mental worry and depression while more frequent messages about cultural resource coping predicted greater mental worry and depression. In general, results showed that higher levels of experiences with racism were connected with poorer mental functioning in students as showed by great levels of mental stress and depression. Unusually, cultural pride messages did not buffer students from the effects of racism on mental or physical functioning in either form. Their findings agreed with regularly with previous research pointing to the bad effect of the racist experiences on psychological health. Less frequent messages about these resources along with regular racist experiences made students more acceptable to be hurt by mental stress. Although, these relations did not happen in the case of mental distress, meaning that neither type of message presented any protective effect for students angrily standing up to high levels of racism. Their findings highlight the difficult challenges African American parents face in preparing young adults to successfully deal with racism and how to prepare young adults well enough for the realities they face without causing mental harm. In the end, their measure of mental worry and depression tested a wide range of mental problems, and examination of responses on the measure showed that few people reported very high levels of worry and depression.