Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.
College of Social Sciences, Policy, & Practice, Simmons College.
Dev Psychol. 2019 Mar;55(3):509-524. doi: 10.1037/dev0000585.
Interpersonal and structural forms of racism contribute to a system of economic stratification in the United States in which children of color are disproportionately likely to be born into poverty and to remain poor as adults. However, only a small body of research has focused on Black and Latinx adolescents' developing beliefs about the causes of poverty or the relationship between such beliefs and their awareness of racism. The present study sought to contribute to this scholarship with a longitudinal investigation involving Black and Latinx adolescents (n = 457) attending urban secondary schools in 5 northeastern cities. Specifically, we investigated (a) these adolescents' change over time in their beliefs about the causes of poverty; (b) the relationship between their developing beliefs about the causes of poverty and changes in their awareness of racism; and (c) the role of a progressive schooling experience in influencing the adolescents' beliefs about the causes of poverty. Multivariate latent growth modeling revealed that participants demonstrated significant positive change over time in their conception of poverty as caused by structural factors as well as a significant relationship at each time point between adolescents' beliefs about the causes of poverty and awareness of interpersonal racism. However, we found that attending a secondary school featuring a progressive schooling model did not significantly predict adolescents' change in beliefs about the structural causes of poverty. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
人际和结构性种族主义形式促成了美国的经济分层体系，在该体系中，有色人种的孩子更有可能出生在贫困家庭，并在成年后继续贫困。然而，只有少量的研究关注黑人和拉丁裔青少年对贫困原因的发展性信念，或者这些信念与他们对种族主义的认识之间的关系。本研究通过对 5 个东北部城市的城市中学的黑人和拉丁裔青少年（n = 457）进行纵向调查，旨在为这一学术研究做出贡献。具体来说，我们调查了：（a）这些青少年随着时间的推移，对贫困原因的信念发生了怎样的变化；（b）他们对贫困原因的发展性信念与对种族主义认识变化之间的关系；（c）接受进步教育经历对影响青少年对贫困原因的信念的作用。多变量潜在增长模型显示，参与者在他们对结构性因素导致贫困的观念上表现出显著的正向变化，并且在每个时间点，青少年对贫困原因的信念与对人际种族主义的认识之间都存在显著的关系。然而，我们发现，就读于以进步教育模式为特色的中学并不能显著预测青少年对贫困结构性原因的信念变化。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
