Engagement Coping Responses to Adolescents’ Negative Racialized Experiences

Abstract

This study examined thematic patterns of parents’ engaged coping messages in response to their adolescents’ negative race‐based experiences. Ten focus groups were conducted with 73 Black parents from a Southeastern city (73% female). Using modified grounded theory, narratives that supported adolescent engaged coping were coded for three ethnic‐racial socialization messages, the perpetrator, and the setting, followed by inductive (open) coding. The majority of experiences were school‐related. Themes were informed by parents’ critical engagement, ethnic‐racial socialization, and engaged racial coping. Findings revealed that parents advised a repertoire of engaged coping strategies, from actively confronting interpersonal perpetrators (e.g., peers), to critically engaging with institutional perpetrators. Strategies to develop adolescents’ critical reflection and anti‐racism actions to dismantle racism across contexts are discussed.

Confrontation and Avoidance of Uncivil Behaviors in the Workplace: Empirical Evidence From the Tourism Industry

“…The results showed that coping mechanisms accomplished a considerable moderating effect involving perceived workplace incivility and work engagement. Earlier studies also supported these results and emphasized that coping behaviors help address revenge or forgiveness and reconciliation when a person feels victimized in the workplace (Aquino et al, 2001;Glover et al, 2022;Mikus & Teoh, 2022;Rolin et al, 2022). Coping mechanisms help respondents manage stressors, their mental abilities and ordinary routines in the workplace, and work engagement (Huang et al, 2022;Soral et al, 2022).…”

“…Literature reveals that coping behavior helps to address revenge, forgiveness, or reconciliation when a person feels victimized in the workplace (Aquino et al, 2006; Mikus & Teoh, 2022; Rolin et al, 2022). Coping helps respondents manage stressors with their mental abilities and ordinary routines (Glover et al, 2022). Gottlieb (1997) further claims that individuals remain consistent when they develop the ability to control repeatedly any chronically stressful situations.…”

Black Lives and Black Research Matter: How our Collective Emotions Continue to Drive a Movement

“…The collective anger, frustration, and pain of the Black community in response to anti‐Black oppression has propelled parallel BLM movements in the public realm and within social science. A powerful transition currently happening in Black youth development work is a move from studying resilience—the study of the ability to adapt or thrive in the face of adversity—to studying Black youth resistance (Glover et al., 2022 ; Smith et al., 2021 ). Distinct from resilience, resistance captures Black youth and families' exercise of agency to confront and dismantle anti‐Black systems of oppression.…”

Dismantling systems of racism and oppression during adolescence: An agenda for anti‐racist research

“…The field of adolescent development does not yet have a robust tradition of focusing on the socialization of white power and privilege, but can certainly learn from other disciplines (Engles, 2006 andGuynes, 2019 for bibliographies of critical whiteness studies across counseling, education, sociology, philosophy, history, African American studies, and other humanities fields). With our special section and other recent work on whiteness and adolescent development (e.g., Glover et al, 2022;Hazelbaker et al, 2022;Moffitt et al, 2021;Sullivan et al, 2022;Woolverton & Marks, 2021), research attention to adolescents' learning of white privilege and power dynamics in systems of racism is on the rise, and much more of this work is urgently needed to protect the healthy development of youth of color. Crucially, this research should be done in ways that do not recenter or reify whiteness as dominant, but in ways that expose racist ideas and beliefs within white culture and institutions (Hagerman, 2022).…”