title: Confirmatory evidence for a multidimensional model of racial-ethnic socialization for transracially adoptive families.
abstract: The purpose of the current study is to test a recently established model of racial-ethnic socialization (Langrehr, 2014) among 2 samples of White transracially adoptive parents and to assess whether the proposed model functions similarly after accounting for adopted child race.
  
  
  
  Based on a modified version of the Racial Bias Preparation Scale (Fisher, Wallace, & Fenton, 2000), confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the 3-factor model (i.e., Prejudice Awareness, Racial-Ethnic Pride, and Egalitarianism) among 172 White transracially adoptive parents with Asian children (Mage = 45.72) and 140 White transracially adoptive parents with Black children (Mage = 42.62). In addition, multigroup invariance testing was used to assess whether the proposed model functioned similarly across the 2 groups of parents.
  
  
  
  Results indicate that the proposed 3-factor model demonstrated partial measurement invariance such that the subconstruct of Egalitarianism functioned similarly across groups, whereas Racial-Ethnic Pride and Prejudice Awareness were deemed noninvariant.
  
  
  
  Findings are intended to help expand the concept of racial-ethnic socialization for transracially adoptive families and address the degree to which current research on racial-ethnic socialization can be applied to different transracially adoptive families. Results are intended to highlight ways that various social-cultural dimensions of family can culminate into different socialization experiences. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
authors.forename: Kimberly J
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0796-1106
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Langrehr
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Sciences, University of Indianapolis.
authors.forename: Anita Jones
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
authors.forename: Sydney K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Morgan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011287:Prejudice / Q000523:psychology*; D044469:Racial Groups; D000072339:Sexual and Gender Minorities / Q000523:psychology; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D012951:Socialization