EFFECTS OF RACIAL SOCIALIZATION ON RACIAL ATTITUDES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PRE-SCHOOLERS

The purpose of the study was to examine African American pre-schoolers‘ racial attitudes and African American parents‘ color-blind racial attitudes and racial socialization experiences. This study explored the relation between parents‘ racial socialization reception experiences and their color-blind racial attitudes. Additionally, the relation between racial socialization transmission experiences and pre-schoolers‘ racial attitudes was examined. The average age of parents was 35.7 years old and pre-schoolers was 4.4 years old. There were 71 parent-child dyads recruited from local schools, daycares and after school care programs. Pre-schoolers completed the Preschool Racial Attitudes Measure II (PRAM II). Parents completed the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) and the Parent Cultural and Racial Experiences of Socialization (P-CARES) measure. A significant relationship emerged between Affirmation messages that parents transmitted to pre-schoolers and pre-schoolers‘ racial attitudes (r =-.275, p < .05). However, a hierarchal regression analysis revealed that racial socialization practices did not predict pre-schoolers racial attitudes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Counseling

Grantor

University of Houston

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Anderson, Bernasha

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Coleman, M. Nicole

• African american pre-schooler
• Black pre-schoolers
• Racial Attitudes
• Racial socialization

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• The author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/10657/581

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oai:uh-ir.tdl.org:10657/581