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Zong X, Cheah CSL, Ren H. Age-Varying Associations Between COVID-19-Related Racial Discrimination and Chinese American Adolescents' Political Civic Engagement. J Youth Adolesc 2024; 53:446-458. [PMID: 37816911 DOI: 10.1007/s10964-023-01879-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/12/2023]
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has made historically rooted anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, and civic activism in the United States highly salient, creating a heightened need for Asian American youth to redress racial injustice through civic engagement. However, little is known about Chinese American adolescents' civic engagement in response to racial discrimination. The present study investigated the age-varying associations between Chinese American adolescents' experiences of COVID-19-related racial discrimination and their political civic engagement at the intersection of race and gender, as well as the moderating roles of ethnic identity affirmation and parental civic socialization in these associations. The participants were 295 10- to 18-year-old Chinese American adolescents (Mage = 14.1 years, SD = 2.2 years; 52% girls) and their parents (Mage = 44.2 years, SD = 6.0 years; 79% mothers). Time-varying effect modeling showed that experiences of racial discrimination were negatively associated with political civic engagement in middle adolescence. This negative association was found only among girls but not boys. High ethnic identity affirmation and parental civic socialization not only buffered Chinese American adolescents against the impact of racial discrimination but even promoted their greater political civic engagement across adolescence. These findings revealed the age trends and important individual and contextual facilitators of Chinese American adolescents' political civic participation in the context of the racialized pandemic of COVID-19, which can inform culturally and developmentally targeted education and intervention efforts that promote the civic development of Chinese American adolescents.
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- Xiaoli Zong
- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Buchanan CM, Zietz S, Lansford JE, Skinner AT, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, Gurdal S, Liu Q, Long Q, Oburu P, Pastorelli C, Sorbring E, Steinberg L, Tapanya S, Uribe Tirado LM, Yotanyamaneewong S, Alampay LP, Al-Hassan S, Bacchini D, Bornstein MH, Chang L, Deater-Deckard K. Typicality and trajectories of problematic and positive behaviors over adolescence in eight countries. Front Psychol 2023; 13:991727. [PMID: 36817375 PMCID: PMC9930608 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.991727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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In this study, we examine the predictions of a storm and stress characterization of adolescence concerning typicality and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and wellbeing from late childhood through late adolescence. Using data from the Parenting Across Cultures study, levels and trajectories of these characteristics were analyzed for 1,211 adolescents from 11 cultural groups across eight countries. Data were longitudinal, collected at seven timepoints from 8 to 17 years of age. Results provide more support for a storm and stress characterization with respect to the developmental trajectories of behavior and characteristics from childhood to adolescence or across the adolescent years than with respect to typicality of behavior. Overall, adolescents' behavior was more positive than negative in all cultural groups across childhood and adolescence. There was cultural variability in both prevalence and trajectories of behavior. The data provide support for arguments that a more positive and nuanced characterization of adolescence is appropriate and important.
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- Christy M. Buchanan
- Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
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- Department of Maternal and Child Health and Adolescent Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Global Health, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Educational Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya
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- Centre for Child and Youth Studies, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Psychology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD, United States
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York, NY, United States
- Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Taipa, China
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- Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
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Palmer CA, Powell SL, Deutchman DR, Tintzman C, Poppler A, Oosterhoff B. Sleepy and Secluded: Sleep Disturbances are Associated With Connectedness in Early Adolescent Social Networks. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE 2022; 32:756-768. [PMID: 34338382 DOI: 10.1111/jora.12670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Studies in adults suggest that sleep disturbances predict poorer socioemotional skills and impaired social interactions. However, little is known regarding how sleep disturbances are associated with social processes during adolescence, a period when both sleep neurobiology and social relationships are undergoing dramatic developmental changes. The current study examined associations among sleep disturbances and peer connectedness in a sample of middle-school students (N = 213, 11-15 years old, 57% female) using a social network approach. Findings suggested that youth with greater sleep disturbances reported having fewer social connections, were rated as a social connection by fewer peers, and were less likely to have reciprocated nominations, even after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and mental health symptoms.
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