A Small-Scale Randomized Efficacy Trial of the Identity Project: Promoting Adolescents' Ethnic-Racial Identity Exploration and Resolution.
Adolescents' ethnic-racial identity (ERI) formation represents an important developmental process that is associated with adjustment. The Identity Project intervention, grounded in developmental theory, was designed to engage adolescents in the ERI processes of exploration and resolution. The current small-scale efficacy trial involved an ethnic-racially diverse sample of adolescents (N = 215; Mage= 15.02, SD = .68) from eight classrooms that were randomly assigned by classroom to the intervention or attention control group. Differences between conditions in ERI exploration at Time 2 were consistent with desired intervention effects; furthermore, higher levels of ERI exploration at Time 2 predicted increases in ERI resolution at Time 3 only for youth in the treatment condition. Findings provide preliminary evidence of program efficacy.
Arizona State University.
Adriana J
AJ
Umaña-Taylor
Arizona State University.
Sara
S
Douglass
Arizona State University.
Kimberly A
KA
Updegraff
Arizona State University.
Flavio F
FF
Marsiglia
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D041923:Adolescent Development; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000208:ethnology*; D012933:Social Identification; D015206:Southwestern United States / Q000208:ethnology