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Family-Centered Prevention Attenuates the Association Between Structural Racism Risk and Black Adolescents’ Low Self-regulation and Externalizing Behaviors: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial
Originally published 2025-07-17 · Prevention Science
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s11121-025-01828-5 ↗
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How can family support for self-regulation be understood alongside structural barriers faced by children?
Family-centered prevention is considered within the context of structural racism, not as a substitute for addressing that context. The paper connects supported self-regulation with social conditions and culturally grounded family strengths.
Who was studied?
472 Black young people and caregivers in a Strong African American Families prevention trial.
Age / stage: Early adolescence; mean age approximately 11.6 years at baseline
Read with three questions
- How was structural racism operationalized using place-based indicators?
- Which buffering paths were supported and which were not?
- What distinguishes randomized program assignment from a secondary mediation analysis?
Keep the limits in view
This was a secondary analysis using a particular place-based racism measure and some project-developed outcome items. Not all buffering paths were significant, and findings do not show that family actions remove structural racism.
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Steven M Kogan; Ava J Reck; Biplav Tiwari; Janani Rajbhandari Thapha; Sierra Carter; Assaf Oshri; Kalsea Koss; Sun Joo Ahn; Steven Beach; Sycarah Fisher; Emilie Smith; Linhao Zhang (2025). Family-Centered Prevention Attenuates the Association Between Structural Racism Risk and Black Adolescents’ Low Self-regulation and Externalizing Behaviors: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-025-01828-5
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