Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID-19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment

Huiguang Ren; Charissa S.L. Cheah; Hyun Su Cho; Ana Katrina Aquino

doi:10.1111/cdev.14037

Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID-19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment

Huiguang Ren
, Charissa S.L. Cheah^*
, Hyun Su Cho
, Ana Katrina Aquino

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Using a three-wave longitudinal sample of 108 Chinese American parent-adolescent dyads (M_parent-ageW1 = 45.44 years, 17% fathers; M_{adolescent-ageW1} = 13.34 years, 50% boys), this study examined the effects of parents' COVID-19-related racial discrimination experiences on adolescents' ethnic identity exploration and anxiety as mediated by parents' awareness of discrimination (AOD) socialization and moderated by parents' anxiety and racial socialization competency (RSC). Parents' racial discrimination experiences in 2020 predicted adolescents' greater ethnic identity exploration or greater anxiety in 2022 via parents' greater use of AOD in 2021, depending on the levels of parents' anxiety and RSC. These findings highlighted individual and contextual factors impacting racial socialization processes in Chinese American families.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	862-878
Number of pages	17
Journal	Child Development
Volume	95
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14037
State	Published - 1 May 2024
Externally published	Yes

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