Imani

Title:
Investigating the Role of Black Parents’ Challenge Mindsets in Shaping Children’s Outcomes

Abstract:
Black families have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, making Black children especially vulnerable to experiencing poorer wellbeing and academic outcomes. However, parents’ beliefs about and responses to adversity can alleviate the negative consequences that stressors have on children, largely due to parents’ socialization practices. In this talk, I will be presenting preliminary findings from a study examining whether Black parents’ endorsements of challenge mindset (i.e., the belief that experiencing adversity promotes personal growth and strength) predict more positive changes in children’s mood, behavior, and academics since the pandemic began (i.e., March 2020). Lastly, I will share results investigating whether Black parents’ socialization of challenge mindset beliefs mediate the relationship between parents’ endorsements of challenge mindset and children’s outcomes. Next steps for this study will be discussed at the end of this talk.

Julisa

Title:
Omissions and Commissions: The Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Natives' Psychological Wellbeing

Abstract:
Representations of Native Peoples are routinely omitted from consequential domains of society, and in the rare cases Natives are represented, they are portrayed in ways that are both stereotypical and historical. For example, less than 1% of characters on television, films, book and video games are Native American, of those characters, they are primarily depicted as historical. Recent theorizing suggests that both acts of omission (e.g., no representations) and commission (e.g., negative or inaccurate representations) have consequences for the everyday experiences of Native Peoples. To explore this, across two nationally representative samples, we tested whether perceptions of omissions and perceptions of commissions are related to psychological wellbeing outcomes, and whether these relationships are mediated by perceptions of discrimination.