A Cultural-Asset Framework for Investigating Successful Adaptation to Stress in African American Youth

作者：Gaylord Harden Noni K^*; Burrow Anthony L; Cunningham Jamila A

来源：Child Development Perspectives, 2012, 6(3): 264-271.

DOI：10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00236.x

• African American youth
• positive youth development
• racial discrimination
• racial identity
• racial socialization
• coping strategies

The purpose of this article is to present a culturally situated, asset-based developmental framework for understanding successful adaptation to stress. Making use of theory and research on differential exposure and reactivity to racial discrimination, it introduces a framework that can be used to investigate positive development in the context of other stressors. Toward this goal, the article highlights research related to the roles of racial socialization messages, racial identity, stress appraisals, and unique coping in influencing responses to racial discrimination. By integrating these themes, the article presents an asset-based framework for understanding how these components influence one another and can function together to promote positive youth development in the context of racial discrimination. Ultimately, it also illustrates how the framework can be applied to other stressors that are experienced by African American youth and offers examples of how cultural assets work to promote positive youth development.

• 出版日期2012-9