Fertile Ground for Sociocultural Responsivity: Schools and Neighborhoods as Promotive and Inhibiting Environments

Witherspoon, Dawn; White, Rebecca M. B.; Nair, Rajni L.; Maereg, Tiyobista M.; Wei, Wei

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-23163-6_8

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“…Such qualifiers could be social position variables such as gender, nativity, and generation status, as seen in the integrative model (Garcia-Coll et al, 1996), or could stem from individual cognitive or psychological characteristics such as coping (Compas et al, 2017) and self-efficacy (Eccles & Wigfield, 2020), constructs widely examined as promotive and protective factors. Finally, moderators could come from key contexts or systems in which youth and families participate (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2007), such as neighborhoods (e.g., neighborhood cohesion, White et al, 2021) or schools (e.g., sociocultural school climate, Nair & Delgado, 2020; Witherspoon et al, 2023).…”

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Introduction to the special issue on strengths-based examinations of Latinx youths’ interpersonal relationships and socioemotional well-being

Nair,

Delgado,

Alcalá

et al. 2024

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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U.S. and international Latinx populations remain underrepresented within the literature, despite national reports indicating that Latinx individuals comprise a rapidly growing proportion of the U.S. population (Roberts et al., 2020), and represent 8.2% of the world population (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2023). In this paper we use the term Latinx -rather than Latino, Latina, Latina/o, Latin@, Latin, Latine, or Latin American-as this term allows people to ask questions about gender, language, and inclusion, (Milian, 2017;Torres, 2018), while acknowledging that it remains an imperfect term that upholds settler colonial ideals (Urrieta & Calderón, 2019). The underrepresentation of the Latinx population in family science is surprising given research that documents the salience of interpersonal and familial relationships to the Latinx population in the context of cultural values of familism and family obligations (Stein et al., 2014). Even when Latinx samples are included in current scholarship, it has often been from a deficit perspective documenting how risk factors contribute to the educational, psychosocial, and health disparities of this pop-

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Introduction to the special issue on strengths-based examinations of Latinx youths’ interpersonal relationships and socioemotional well-being

Nair,

Delgado,

Alcalá

et al. 2024

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…Existing research suggests that positive features of neighborhood context, including social cohesion or collective efficacy, decrease the risk of children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors (White et al, 2021); however, this association was not consistently observed among Black or Latino adolescents (White et al, 2021; Witherspoon et al, 2023). Thus, variation in the association between neighborhood contexts, like social cohesion, and children’s externalizing/internalizing behaviors by race or ethnicity is inconsistent and requires further research.…”

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Resilience in development: Neighborhood context, experiences of discrimination, and children’s mental health

Okuzono,

Wilson,

Slopen

2023

Dev Psychopathol

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An understanding of child psychopathology and resilience requires attention to the nested and interconnected systems and contexts that shape children’s experiences and health outcomes. In this study, we draw on data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, 2016 to 2021 (n = 182,375 children, ages 3– to 17 years) to examine associations between community social capital and neighborhood resources and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems, and whether these associations were moderated by experiences of racial discrimination. Study outcomes were caregiver-report of current internalizing and externalizing problems. Using logistic regression models adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics of the child and household, higher levels of community social capital were associated with a lower risk of children’s depression, anxiety, and behaviors. Notably, we observed similar associations between neighborhood resources and child mental health for depression only. In models stratified by the child’s experience of racial/ethnic discrimination, the protective benefits of community social capital were specific to those children who did not experience racial discrimination. Our results illustrate heterogeneous associations between community social capital and children’s mental health that differ based on interpersonal experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination, illustrating the importance of a multilevel framework to promote child wellbeing.

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Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination

Glover,

Witherspoon

2024

Infant and Child Development

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The pervasiveness of racism in the U.S. and its negative relations with key development outcomes has led researchers to uncover mediators, of which this article argues efficacy should be considered. Self‐efficacy, one's belief in their capability to accomplish a task or goal, can be measured in multiple domains of functioning and contexts to predict behaviour. The current study examines possible specificity in the relation between discrimination (general discrimination and school discrimination) and efficacy (academic efficacy and efficacy to combat discrimination), whether resilience moderates these associations, and if these processes differ by gender. A total of 879 Black youth (47% female; mean age = 12, SD = 0.58) were included in the analyses. Findings suggest that school discrimination experiences are differentially associated with domains of efficacy. Resilience was associated with increased efficacy, but no significant moderation effects were found.

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Fertile Ground for Sociocultural Responsivity: Schools and Neighborhoods as Promotive and Inhibiting Environments

Cited by 6 publications

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Introduction to the special issue on strengths-based examinations of Latinx youths’ interpersonal relationships and socioemotional well-being

Introduction to the special issue on strengths-based examinations of Latinx youths’ interpersonal relationships and socioemotional well-being

Resilience in development: Neighborhood context, experiences of discrimination, and children’s mental health

Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination

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