Title: Brief report: Contextual predictors of African American adolescents' ethnic‐racial identity affirmation‐belonging and resistance to peer pressure<sup>☆</sup>
Abstract: ABSTRACT The current study examined whether contextual factors (i.e., familial cultural socialization, percentage of same‐ethnicity friends in high school, and neighborhood ethnic‐racial composition) predicted ethnic‐racial identity affirmation‐belonging and, in turn, resistance to peer pressure to engage in problem behavior. Participants were 250 African American adolescents ( M age = 15.57 years; SD = 1.22). Consistent with ecological theory, findings indicated that familial cultural socialization and percentage of same‐ethnicity friends predicted greater ethnic‐racial identity affirmation‐belonging. Furthermore, consistent with notions from social identity theory, youth who reported higher ethnic‐racial identity affirmation‐belonging also reported greater resistance to peer pressure. Findings highlight the significance of the family and school context, as well as the importance of ethnic‐racial identity affirmation‐belonging, for African American youths' positive development.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-03-06
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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