Youth are watching: Adolescents’ sociopolitical development in the Trump era

Dunn, Danielle; Wray‐Lake, Laura; Plummer, Jason Anthony

doi:10.1111/cdev.13762

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“…Awareness of inequality was highest for all youth of color in late adolescence, perhaps indicating advanced development of this aspect of critical consciousness due to age and experience. Notably, the end of our study period coincided with Trump’s presidency, which heightened experiences of marginalization and awareness of inequality for youth of color (Dunn et al, 2022).…”

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Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories

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Systems of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia lead to unequal access to health, wealth, housing, education, and civic opportunities, and thus touch all aspects of human development (Mezey, 2019;Ritchie, 2017). Creating equitable systems begins with becoming aware of inequities and their impacts on historically oppressed communities. Awareness of societal inequality is a developmental foundation of critical consciousness, a process of becoming critically reflective, motivated, and active in challenging systems of inequality and oppression (Watts et al., 2011). Despite growing research on youth critical consciousness (Heberle et al., 2020), few longitudinal studies explore how critical consciousness changes over time or by race and ethnicity. Given that experiences of oppression vary (Rosenbloom & Way, 2004), adolescents from different racial and ethnic groups may show different patterns of age-related change in awareness of inequality-a key aspect of critical consciousness.By documenting trajectories of awareness of inequality by race and ethnicity, as well as gender, parent education, generation status, and their interactions, we seek to advance theory and research on critical consciousness development. Critical consciousness definitions and theoryThe idea of critical consciousness was first articulated by Paulo Friere (1970) to describe self-and co-constructed processes by which Brazilian farmworkers became critically aware of, and empowered to address, systems of oppression. Critical consciousness is central to liberation movements and key to the psychology of liberation for adolescents who experience oppression (Watts & Flanagan, 2007). In developmental science, critical consciousness is posited to have three interrelated dimensions: (a) critical reflection, or awareness and analysis of

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Cultural Stress Profiles: Describing Different Typologies of Migration Related and Cultural Stressors among Hispanic or Latino Youth

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J Youth Adolescence

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Youth of immigrant origin vary across their families’ migration history (e.g., country of heritage, reasons for migration, etc.) and in the communities in which they reside. As such, these youth are often faced with different cultural and immigrant stressors. Although prior research documented the detrimental impact of cultural and immigrant stressors, variable-centered approaches fail to account for the fact that these stressors often co-occur. Addressing this gap, the current study identified typologies of cultural stressors in Hispanic/Latino adolescents using latent profile analysis. Cultural stress profiles were derived using socio-political stress, language brokering, in-group identity threats, and within-group discrimination as indicators. The study was conducted in two sites (Los Angeles and Miami; total N = 306) during Spring and Summer 2020. A four-profile solution was identified: Low Cultural Stress (n = 94, 30.7%), Sociopolitical and Language Brokering Stress (n = 147, 48%), Sociopolitical and In-group Identity Threat Stress (n = 48, 15.7%), and Higher Stress (n = 17, 5.6%). Results indicate that profiles with stress were characterized by worse mental health symptoms, reporting higher means of depression, stress, and lower self-esteem, as well as by higher heritage cultural orientation compared to the low stress profile. Interventions designed to mitigate the deleterious effects of cultural stressors would benefit from adopting an individualized, tailored approach that addresses youth’s stress profile membership.

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Trends in traditional bullying and cyberbullying victimization by race and ethnicity in the United States: A meta-regression

Kennedy,

Dendy,

Lawrence

2024

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Youth are watching: Adolescents’ sociopolitical development in the Trump era

Cited by 5 publications

References 58 publications

Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories

Adolescents’ developing awareness of inequality: Racial and ethnic differences in trajectories

Cultural Stress Profiles: Describing Different Typologies of Migration Related and Cultural Stressors among Hispanic or Latino Youth

Trends in traditional bullying and cyberbullying victimization by race and ethnicity in the United States: A meta-regression

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