An Examination of Family Socialisation Processes as Moderators of Racial Prejudice Transmission Between Adolescents and Their Parents

White, Fiona A.; Gleitzman, Melanie

doi:10.5172/jfs.327.12.2.247

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“…Several theories have attempted to explain children's prejudices in terms of socialenvironmental factors, motivational roots, and/or individual differences. For instance, prevailing approaches focus on prejudicial parental attitudes (Allport, 1954;Rodriguez-Garcia & Wagner, 2009;Sinclair, Dunn, & Lowery, 2005;White & Gleitzman, 2006), social normative influences (Rutland et al, 2005), internalized lay theories about intergroup relations (Levy, West, & Ramirez, 2005), and even interracial friendships (Feddes, Noack, & Rutland, 2009). Other perspectives consider motivational processes such as the development of moral reasoning (Killen, 2007), ingroup identification (Rutland, Killen, & Abrams, 2010), and threats to one's social identity (Nesdale, Durkin, Maass, & Griffiths, 2005).…”

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“…Children's prejudices are also systematically impacted by parental prejudice (e.g., Rodriguez-Garcia & Wagner, 2009;White & Gleitzman, 2006; but see also Aboud & Doyle, 1996), and authoritarian childrearing (Adorno et al, 1950). Specifically, prejudiced parents are more likely to raise prejudiced children and to practice harsh and punitive parenting styles (Peterson et al, 1997), and children raised under punitive disciplinary conditions are more likely to endorse prejudicial values (Altemeyer, 1996;Knafo, 2003).…”

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Explaining dehumanization among children: The interspecies model of prejudice

Costello

Hodson

2012

British J Social Psychol

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Although many theoretical approaches have emerged to explain prejudices expressed by children, none incorporate outgroup dehumanization, a key predictor of prejudice among adults. According to the Interspecies Model of Prejudice, beliefs in the human-animal divide facilitate outgroup prejudice through fostering animalistic dehumanization (Costello & Hodson, 2010). In the present investigation, White children attributed Black children fewer 'uniquely human' characteristics, representing the first systematic evidence of racial dehumanization among children (Studies 1 and 2). In Study 2, path analyses supported the Interspecies Model of Prejudice: children's human-animal divide beliefs predicted greater racial prejudice, an effect explained by heightened racial dehumanization. Similar patterns emerged among parents. Furthermore, parent Social Dominance Orientation predicted child prejudice indirectly through children's endorsement of a hierarchical human-animal divide and subsequent dehumanizing tendencies. Encouragingly, children's human-animal divide perceptions were malleable to an experimental prime highlighting animal-human similarity. Implications for prejudice interventions are considered.

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Section: Prejudice Among Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Known Predictors Of Prejudice In Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining dehumanization among children: The interspecies model of prejudice

Costello

Hodson

2012

British J Social Psychol

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116

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“…Fischer and Shaw (1999) identified ethnic‐racial socialization practices as a moderator of the relationship between experiences of discrimination and psychosocial outcomes for African American youth, finding socialization practices ameliorated some of the negative effects of perceived discrimination on mental health. An Australian study found that the association between parents' and adolescents' racial attitudes was stronger in families that reported low or moderate levels of general socialization practices (e.g., adaptability, empathy, support; White & Gleitzman, 2006). Given the integration of Asian American youth into their parents' social worlds, it is possible that youth may directly observe their parents' experiences of discrimination, which may heighten their awareness of both overt and more subtle acts of discrimination in their own lives.…”

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Intergenerational Experiences of Discrimination in Chinese American Families: Influences of Socialization and Stress

Benner

Kim

2009

J of Marriage and Family

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In this longitudinal study, we investigated the mechanisms by which Chinese American parents' experiences of discrimination influenced their adolescents' ethnicity-related stressors (i.e., cultural misfit, discrimination, attitudes toward education). We focused on whether parents' ethnic-racial socialization practices and perpetual foreigner stress moderated or mediated this relationship. Participants were 444 Chinese American families. Results indicated no evidence of moderation, but we observed support for mediation. Parental experiences of discrimination were associated with more ethnic-racial socialization practices and greater parental perpetual foreigner stress. More ethnic-racial socialization was related to greater cultural misfit in adolescents, whereas more perpetual foreigner stress was related to adolescents' poorer attitudes toward education and more reported discrimination. Relationships between mediators and outcomes were stronger for fathers than for mothers.

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“…Parents are among the most important third parties in adolescent life. Parents teach their children to develop out‐group attitudes and behavior (Nauck, ; White & Gleitzman, ). In addition, parents can disapprove of their children's interethnic relations (Edmonds & Killen, ; Munniksma, Flache, Verkuyten, & Reseastra, ; Phalet & Schönpflug, ; Tolsma, Lubbers, & Coenders, ) or stimulate them to establish friendships outside their own group (Hamm, ; Windzio, ).…”

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Parental Influence on Friendships Between Native and Immigrant Adolescents

Smith

Maas

Tubergen

2014

J of Research on Adolesc

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Parental influence on friendships between native (N = 5,683) and immigrant (N = 3,371) adolescents (aged AE 15) was investigated with the CILS4EU data of pupils in German and Dutch school classes (N = 446) and parents. The researchers examined whether parents affect friendships across group boundaries by shaping the structural opportunities to establish out-group friends and their children's out-group attitudes. The results show that if parents have more outgroup friends and if they consider it less important to maintain in-group traditions, their children have more out-group friends. Part of this relationship is mediated by children's out-group attitudes. Some evidence is found that the opportunity structure mediates the relationship between parental characteristics and adolescent out-group friendship.

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An Examination of Family Socialisation Processes as Moderators of Racial Prejudice Transmission Between Adolescents and Their Parents

Cited by 35 publications

References 24 publications

Explaining dehumanization among children: The interspecies model of prejudice

Explaining dehumanization among children: The interspecies model of prejudice

Intergenerational Experiences of Discrimination in Chinese American Families: Influences of Socialization and Stress

Parental Influence on Friendships Between Native and Immigrant Adolescents

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