Loss, Survival, and Redemption

Hunter, Andrea G.; Friend, Christian A.; Murphy, S. Yvette; Rollins, Alethea; Williams-Wheeler, Meeshay; Laughinghouse, Janzelean

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“…Richardson and Eccles (2007) found that for youth who were exploring possibilities for the self through outside reading, their reading choices allowed them to envision selves that rebutted racial and gendered stereotypes and reaffirmed or coalesced values and beliefs about the world. These findings are similar to Hunter, Friend, Murphy, Williams-Wheeler, and Laughinghouse's (2006) findings for 20 teen and young adult men who grew up fatherless. In the course of discussing what the absence of a father meant to their understanding of manhood and the process of maturing into manhood, the young men talked of the possible men they would like to be and the type of man they would like to avoid becoming.…”

Section: Possible Selves and African American Studentssupporting

confidence: 87%

The Possible Selves of High-Ability African Males Attending a Residential High School for Highly Able Youth

Frazier

2012

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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This study explored the possible selves of high-ability African American males attending a specialized school for high-ability students. To this end, interviews were conducted with nine students. Results provided details about the hoped-for and feared selves the young men envisioned as well as the strategies these youth utilized to realize and avoid these possibilities for their future. The interviews also demonstrated the impact of family, the specialized school's culture, their neighborhoods, and racism on the possibilities the young men envisioned for themselves. Keywords residential schools, self-concept, African American students, identity, research, qualitative Gill (2003) explored academic self-concept in a sophomore cohort of high-ability students at a residential academy for students who were gifted and talented in math and science. Consistent with Marsh's theory that academic self-concept falls for students who attend programs for the gifted and talented (Marsh & Hua, 2003), the average value for academic self-concept decreased from 52.02 to 47.13 during the course of their first semester at the Academy. Surprisingly, however, decreases in academic selfconcept were the greatest for a group of African American males (and several Latinos), causing the reader to question whether the school setting was especially detrimental for young men of color. Research Question 1: What possible selves will be identified by high-ability African American males attending a specialized school for gifted and talented students? Research Question 2: Will there be consistencies in the possible selves identified by African American students across students and/or across grades? Research Question 3: What strategies will be identified to realize or avoid possible selves? Research Question 4: How will significant others influence possible selves in African American males?

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Section: Possible Selves and African American Studentssupporting

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The Possible Selves of High-Ability African Males Attending a Residential High School for Highly Able Youth

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2012

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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“…An intersectional approach to examining stress and coping for Black college men would suggest that different aspects and implications about the stress and coping experiences of Black college men cannot be adequately understood when examined independently (Griffith, Ellis, & Allen, 2013); rather, key demographic characteristics that influence stress and coping among Black college men would be examined simultaneously and associated with different social and structural positionalities, conditions, behaviors, and health outcomes. In short, life circumstances influence the way Black boys navigate the pathways to manhood (Hunter et al, 2006; Mankowski & Maton, 2010; Watkins, 2012a); those pathways, and subsequent health outcomes, are influenced by the intersections of race, age, and gender over the life course (Bowman, 1989; Watkins, Walker, & Griffith, 2010). It is important to note that it was not our intention to test the life course perspective and intersectionality in the current study.…”

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An exploratory study of stress and coping among Black college men.

Goodwill

Watkins

Johnson

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Research on coping mechanisms among Black Americans is robust, yet there is a dearth of studies that use qualitative approaches to examine coping specifically among young Black men. The current and historical landscape of race relations in the United States calls for additional concern and exploration of this topic. To fill gaps in this area, this study uncovered the ways Black college men cope with various stressors that impact their mental health. Eleven qualitative interviews were conducted with 18- to 25-year-old Black men enrolled at a college in the Midwest who participated in the Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) project. Data were analyzed using a rigorous and accelerated data reduction technique that involved transferring transcript data onto spreadsheets, reducing the data, and conducting a rigorous content analysis to generate themes and subthemes. Participants reported that Black college men cope with stress by discussing their issues with members of their social support networks, engaging in physical activities, and relying on themselves. Some respondents reported that they intentionally avoided dealing with their mental health, whereas others attempted to make sense of their problems. Substance use, violence, and anger were all identified as markers of unaddressed stressors. Stigma emerged as a barrier to seeking help. Study findings highlight within-group differences among Black college men. Mental health researchers must continue to develop creative ways to examine stress and coping so that resources can become more culturally relevant and readily available both within and outside of the spaces Black men occupy. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…Sanders (1998), for instance, reported that African American youth residing in two-parent households had higher academic expectations than did those residing in single-mother-headed households. Additionally, qualitative studies with African American men highlight the loss they experience from their biological fathers' absence and its effects on their thoughts about their own future as adults and as fathers (Hunter et al 2006). We thus expected African American men who reported involvement from biological or social fathers also to report heightened future expectations.…”

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Father Involvement and Young, Rural African American Men’s Engagement in Substance Misuse and Multiple Sexual Partnerships

Barton

Kogan

Cho

et al. 2015

American J of Comm Psychol

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This study was designed to examine the associations of biological father and social father involvement during childhood with African American young men's development and engagement in risk behaviors. With a sample of 505 young men living in the rural South, a dual mediation model was tested in which retrospective reports of involvement from biological fathers and social fathers were linked to young men's substance misuse and multiple sexual partnerships through men's relational schemas and future expectations. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that levels of involvement from biological fathers and social fathers predicted young men's relational schemas; only biological fathers' involvement predicted future expectations. In turn, future expectations predicted levels of substance misuse, and negative relational schemas predicted multiple sexual partnerships. Biological fathers' involvement evinced significant indirect associations with young men's substance misuse and multiple sexual partnerships through both schemas and expectations; social fathers' involvement exhibited an indirect association with multiple sexual partnerships through relational schemas. Findings highlight the unique influences of biological fathers and social fathers on multiple domains of African American young men's psychosocial development that subsequently render young men more or less likely to engage in risk behaviors.

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Loss, Survival, and Redemption

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

The Possible Selves of High-Ability African Males Attending a Residential High School for Highly Able Youth

The Possible Selves of High-Ability African Males Attending a Residential High School for Highly Able Youth

An exploratory study of stress and coping among Black college men.

Father Involvement and Young, Rural African American Men’s Engagement in Substance Misuse and Multiple Sexual Partnerships

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