College of Social Work, University of Tennessee.
School of Social Work, University of Washington.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2021;91(2):236-245. doi: 10.1037/ort0000490.
Racial disparities in sleep have been reported with Black adolescents showing the least amount of sleep relative to other youth. Yet, few within-group studies have examined factors that protect Black adolescents from sleep problems. To address this gap, we tested whether parent ethnic-racial socialization (i.e., instilling a sense of cultural and racial pride) at fourth grade moderated the associations between bedtime sleep problems at third and sixth grade. Using data from a sample of Black parents and children who participated in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 173), we found that for children with low, but not high, parent ethnic-racial socialization at fourth grade bedtime problems increased from third and sixth grade. We discuss these findings within the existing parent ethnic-racial socialization and sleep literatures and how they further our understanding of the protective effects of parent ethnic-racial socialization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
种族差异在睡眠中已经被报道，黑人青少年相对于其他年轻人睡眠最少。然而，很少有同组研究检查了哪些因素可以保护黑人青少年免受睡眠问题的困扰。为了解决这一差距，我们测试了四年级时父母的种族社会化（即灌输文化和种族自豪感）是否调节了三年级和六年级时睡前睡眠问题的关联。利用来自参与国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所早期儿童保育和青年发展研究的黑人父母和孩子的样本数据（n=173），我们发现，对于四年级父母种族社会化程度低但不是高的孩子来说，从三年级到六年级，睡前问题会增加。我们在现有的父母种族社会化和睡眠文献中讨论了这些发现，以及它们如何进一步加深我们对父母种族社会化的保护作用的理解。
