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10-10-2023 | Empirical Research

Age-Varying Associations Between COVID-19-Related Racial Discrimination and Chinese American Adolescents’ Political Civic Engagement

Auteurs: Xiaoli Zong, Charissa S. L. Cheah, Huiguang Ren

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 2/2024

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has made historically rooted anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, and civic activism in the United States highly salient, creating a heightened need for Asian American youth to redress racial injustice through civic engagement. However, little is known about Chinese American adolescents’ civic engagement in response to racial discrimination. The present study investigated the age-varying associations between Chinese American adolescents’ experiences of COVID-19-related racial discrimination and their political civic engagement at the intersection of race and gender, as well as the moderating roles of ethnic identity affirmation and parental civic socialization in these associations. The participants were 295 10- to 18-year-old Chinese American adolescents (Mage = 14.1 years, SD = 2.2 years; 52% girls) and their parents (Mage = 44.2 years, SD = 6.0 years; 79% mothers). Time-varying effect modeling showed that experiences of racial discrimination were negatively associated with political civic engagement in middle adolescence. This negative association was found only among girls but not boys. High ethnic identity affirmation and parental civic socialization not only buffered Chinese American adolescents against the impact of racial discrimination but even promoted their greater political civic engagement across adolescence. These findings revealed the age trends and important individual and contextual facilitators of Chinese American adolescents’ political civic participation in the context of the racialized pandemic of COVID-19, which can inform culturally and developmentally targeted education and intervention efforts that promote the civic development of Chinese American adolescents.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Age-Varying Associations Between COVID-19-Related Racial Discrimination and Chinese American Adolescents’ Political Civic Engagement
Auteurs
Xiaoli Zong
Charissa S. L. Cheah
Huiguang Ren
Publicatiedatum
10-10-2023
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 2/2024
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01879-3