Yang Joo Young, McDonald Kristina L
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6001 Dodge St., Omaha, NE, 68182, US.
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Box 870348, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, US.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Feb 1. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02148-1.
Although much research has focused on parents' role in racial and ethnic socialization, the influence of peers on how youth perceive race in society remains underexplored despite peers' significant impact on youth identity and social-cognitive development. This study examined how peer and parental messages about race compare in shaping young adults' responses to prejudice feedback. Participants were White emerging adults (n = 726, 75.3% female, M = 20.1, SD = 2.6). Participants reported parents and peers' messages about race and their own motivations to control prejudice. They then completed the race Implicit Association Test and received false feedback indicating a pro-White bias. Subsequently, participants' feedback invalidation and willingness to change behaviors to reduce bias were assessed. Parental and peer egalitarian and color-conscious messages were positively associated with behavioral willingness to reduce bias and internal motivations to control prejudice explained these relations. Peer egalitarian messages were more influential than parents' egalitarian messages on internal motivations to control prejudice and behavioral willingness to reduce bias. Findings highlight the unique role of peers' and parents' messages about race on motivations to control prejudice and emerging adults' responses to prejudice feedback.
尽管许多研究都聚焦于父母在种族和民族社会化中的作用，但同龄人对青少年如何看待社会中的种族的影响仍未得到充分探索，尽管同龄人对青少年的身份认同和社会认知发展有着重大影响。本研究考察了同龄人及父母关于种族的信息在塑造年轻人对偏见反馈的反应方面有何不同。参与者是白人新兴成年人（n = 726，75.3%为女性，M = 20.1，SD = 2.6）。参与者报告了父母和同龄人关于种族的信息以及他们自己控制偏见的动机。然后他们完成了种族内隐联想测验，并收到表明亲白人偏见的错误反馈。随后，评估了参与者对反馈的无效感以及改变行为以减少偏见的意愿。父母和同龄人平等主义及种族意识的信息与减少偏见的行为意愿呈正相关，且控制偏见的内在动机解释了这些关系。同龄人平等主义信息在控制偏见的内在动机和减少偏见的行为意愿方面比父母的平等主义信息更具影响力。研究结果凸显了同龄人及父母关于种族的信息在控制偏见的动机和新兴成年人对偏见反馈的反应方面的独特作用。
