Experiences of adverse life events can lead to a range of adjustment difficulties in youth, including internalizing and externalizing symptoms (Cicchetti & Toth, 1998; Compas et al., 1994: Cooley-Quille et al., 2001; Hankin & Abramson, 2001; Jackson & Warren, 2000). Low income, urban African...
Recent literature has highlighted the relevance of racialized sexual stereotypes of African American women, and the underlying behavioral norms they promote, to the perpetuation of HIV/AIDS and overall sexual wellbeing within this demographic group. Specifically, the sexual deviance and...
Although studies utilizing self-report measures of racial discrimination have added to our understanding of the expression and effects of race-based stress among African American adolescents, four problems characterize the current measurement of racial discrimination with these youth: 1) the...
African American youth are disproportionately located in neighborhoods characterized by crime and are at an increased risk for exposure to community violence and perceiving their neighborhoods to be violent. Each of these three experiences with violence has been linked with conduct problems....
Racial socialization is a prevalent and culturally relevant parenting strategy known to combat the detrimental consequences of racial discrimination for African American youth. While substantial progress has been made in the racial socialization literature, three limitations hinder our...
The current study explored the relationships among racial discrimination, depression and racial identity in a sample of 82 African American middle school students. The World Health Organization (WHO) cites depression as the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Exposure to...