TY - JOUR
T1 - Neighborhood Characteristics and Expectations of Racially Discriminatory Experiences Among African American Adolescents
AU - Witherspoon, Dawn P.
AU - Seaton, Eleanor K.
AU - Rivas-Drake, Deborah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - This study examined how youth's neighborhood characteristics informed their expectations of racial discrimination concurrently and longitudinally. Secondary analyses were conducted on data from Waves 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study, which permitted the examination of neighborhood influences among a socioeconomically diverse sample of African American parents and adolescents (n = 863; Mage = 12.29). Youth exposed to more neighborhood disadvantage in seventh grade reported more negative concurrent neighborhood perceptions, which, in turn, predicted greater expectations of racial discrimination in eighth grade; youth's expectations remained stable into adulthood. Thus, support was found for the mediating role of youth's subjective neighborhood perceptions in the longitudinal relation between neighborhood structure and expectations of racial discrimination.
AB - This study examined how youth's neighborhood characteristics informed their expectations of racial discrimination concurrently and longitudinally. Secondary analyses were conducted on data from Waves 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study, which permitted the examination of neighborhood influences among a socioeconomically diverse sample of African American parents and adolescents (n = 863; Mage = 12.29). Youth exposed to more neighborhood disadvantage in seventh grade reported more negative concurrent neighborhood perceptions, which, in turn, predicted greater expectations of racial discrimination in eighth grade; youth's expectations remained stable into adulthood. Thus, support was found for the mediating role of youth's subjective neighborhood perceptions in the longitudinal relation between neighborhood structure and expectations of racial discrimination.
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U2 - 10.1111/cdev.12595
DO - 10.1111/cdev.12595
M3 - Article
C2 - 27684392
AN - SCOPUS:84988955335
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 87
SP - 1367
EP - 1378
JO - Child development
JF - Child development
IS - 5
ER -