Effects of Africentric Socialization on Psychosocial Outcomes in Black Girls: The Critical Role of Gender. Issue 4 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Whaley, Arthur L.; McQueen, John P.; Oudkerk, Lorraine
• Is Part Of: Journal of ethnic & cultural diversity in social work. Volume 26:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 289
• Page End: 306
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Academic outcomes -- African-American youth -- gender -- intervention/prevention -- program evaluation -- violence; Social work with minorities -- Periodicals; Social work with minorities -- United States -- Periodicals; Social Work -- Periodicals; Minority Groups -- Periodicals; 362.84
• DOI: 10.1080/15313204.2017.1344945
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1531-3204

Abstract

ABSTRACT: African American social work scholars recommend rigorous research and evaluation of Africentric interventions as one approach to building culturally appropriate, evidence-based treatments for the Black community. Following this approach, this pilot study evaluates the Imani Rites of Passage program, a 15-week Africentric curriculum with 10 Black adolescent females (mean age = 12.40), comparing their pre- and post-intervention data to that of a no-intervention group of 13 Black males (mean age = 12.08). The program evaluation is based on the degree of correspondence between theory and the measurement model spelled out by the cognitive-cultural view of African-American identity. The findings for Black females were consistent with the cognitive-cultural model in some ways but not in others, and they were more complex than the predictions. Future Africentric interventions guided by the cognitive-cultural model must consider gender differences in the outcomes. Implications for social work research and practice are discussed.