title: Processes Linking Social Class and Racial Socialization in African American Dual-Earner Families.
abstract: We examined the links between social class, occupational self-direction, self-efficacy, and racial socialization in a sample of 128 two-parent African American couples raising adolescents. A series of multivariate, multilevel models revealed that mothers' SES was connected to self-efficacy via its association with occupational self-direction; in turn, self-efficacy partially explained the association between occupational self-direction and racial socialization. The link between maternal self-efficacy and racial socialization depended on whether or not children had experienced discrimination. For fathers, a strong link between SES and occupational self-direction emerged, but significant associations were not found between occupational self-direction and self-efficacy, or self-efficacy and racial socialization. The discussion focuses on mother-father differences and the role of child effects in racial socialization.
authors.affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University 201 Henderson Bldg. University Park, PA 16802 ac1@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Ann C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Crouter
authors.forename: Megan E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Baril
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: McHale