Workplace Discrimination Predicting Racial/Ethnic Socialization Across African American, Latino, and Chinese Families

Informed by Kohn and Schooler's (1969) occupational socialization framework, this study examined linkages between racial/ethnic minority mothers' perceptions of racial/ethnic discrimination in the workplace and adolescents' accounts of racial/ethnic socialization in the home. Data wer...

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Published in:Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology 2014-10, Vol.20 (4), p.550-560
Main Authors: Hagelskamp, Carolin, Hughes, Diane L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans - psychology
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
Black People
Chinese Cultural Groups
Early Adolescence
Family
Family Work Relationship
Female
Hispanic Americans - psychology
Human
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Latinos/Latinas
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mothers - psychology
Parent-Child Relations - ethnology
Parenting - ethnology
Parenting - psychology
Prejudice
Race and Ethnic Discrimination
Social Identification
Socialization
Socioeconomic Factors
United States
Urban Population
Working Conditions
Workplace - psychology
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Summary:Informed by Kohn and Schooler's (1969) occupational socialization framework, this study examined linkages between racial/ethnic minority mothers' perceptions of racial/ethnic discrimination in the workplace and adolescents' accounts of racial/ethnic socialization in the home. Data were collected from 100 mother-early adolescent dyads who participated in a longitudinal study of urban adolescents' development in the Northeastern United States, including African American, Latino, and Chinese families. Mothers and adolescents completed surveys separately. We found that when mothers reported more frequent institutional discrimination at work, adolescents reported more frequent preparation for bias messages at home, across racial/ethnic groups. Mothers' experiences of interpersonal prejudice at work were associated with more frequent cultural socialization messages among African American and Latino families. Chinese youth reported fewer cultural socialization messages when mothers perceived more frequent interpersonal prejudice at work. Findings are discussed in the context of minority groups' distinct social histories and economic status in the United States.
ISSN:1099-9809
1939-0106
DOI:10.1037/a0035321