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27-05-2021 | Empirical Research

Differentiating Pathways between Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness

Auteurs: Lisa Kiang, N. Keita Christophe, Gabriela L. Stein

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 7/2021

Abstract

Critical consciousness is one way in which minoritized youth can resist oppression and move towards sociopolitical change, but little is known about how it evolves alongside developmentally-relevant assets such as ethnic-racial identity. Among 367 ethnically-racially diverse youth (M_age = 15.85, 68.9% female, 85% U.S-born), links between multiple identity constructs (oppressed minority identity, centrality, public regard) and critical consciousness (reflection, motivation, action) were examined using structural equation modeling. Oppressed minority ideology and centrality were associated with more reflection, more motivation, but less critical action. In contrast, public regard was associated with less reflection, less motivation, but more action. The results suggest that different identity processes should be cultivated to help promote these largely independent dimensions of critical consciousness. Further implications of the findings and ideas for future research are discussed.

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More tangentially related to the current study, but underscoring the importance of considering racial differences, critical action’s impact on mental health was also found to differ across groups (Hope et al. 2019a, 2019b).

This is the same conclusion reached in recent work validating the ShoCCS (Diemer et al., 2020), but full measurement invariance testing could be further examined in explicitly measurement-focused studies.

Established procedures were used to evenly spread true score variance across three parcels (Kishton & Widaman, 1994). Specifically, after looking at each of the factor loadings, the strongest loading item was placed in Parcel 1, the second highest loading item on Parcel 2, the third and fourth highest loading items on Parcel 3, the fourth highest loading item on Parcel 2, and so on in a ‘snake-like’ fashion.

Because invariance of factor loadings and item intercepts was established through measurement invariance testing, this part of this model was constrained to equality (i.e., invariance) in both Models A and B. Because invariance has been established by ethnicity-race among diverse adolescents (Rapa et al., 2020), loadings and intercepts for critical reflection, motivation, and action are also specified to be invariant across groups in both Models A and B.

Allowing one pair of items per factor to correlate would result in ‘good’ fitting factors, but may also be capitalizing on random chance, especially considering the small number of items per subscale.

Mean scores, not latent variables, were used to assess identity and critical consciousness dimensions in this preliminary step of analysis.

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Titel: Differentiating Pathways between Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness
Auteurs: Lisa Kiang
N. Keita Christophe
Gabriela L. Stein
Publicatiedatum: 27-05-2021
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 7/2021
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01453-9

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