Challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice: support for urban adolescents' critical consciousness development.

Full Abstract

This mixed-model study examined the relationship between urban adolescents' perceived support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice from peers, family, and community members and their critical consciousness development. These relationships were examined by relating participants' qualitative perceptions of support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice to quantitative data obtained from Likert-type measures of the reflection and action components of critical consciousness. Perceived support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice had a significant impact upon the reflection component of critical consciousness; the significance criterion was supported by effect size estimates. Support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice was not significantly related to the action component of critical consciousness. Participants perceived the most support for challenging racism, moderate support for challenging social injustice, and the least support for challenging sexism. Additionally, female participants perceived more support for challenging sexism than male participants. These results suggest that the informal interactions of urban adolescents play a role in shaping their critical consciousness, and hold implications for psychosocial interventions and research with marginalized populations.

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Author information

Author/s: Diemer, Matthew A (MA); Kauffman, Aimee (A); Koenig, Nathan (N); Trahan, Emily (E); Hsieh, Chueh-An (CA);

Affiliation: Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. diemerm(-atsign-)msu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology (Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jul; vol 12 (issue 3) : pp 444-60

Dates: Created 2006/08/02; Completed 2007/01/16;

PMID: 16881749, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

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Adolescent
Adolescent Psychology
Attitude
Awareness
Culture
Family - ethnology
Female
Humans
Male
New England

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