Publications by authors named "Bernardette J Pinetta"

Article Synopsis
  • The study explored how social identities (Muslim, ethnic, and American) evolve among Muslim American youth over time, focusing on experiences of religious discrimination.
  • Data were collected from 220 Muslim American youth in the Midwest between 2015 and 2017, revealing trends in their identity development.
  • Findings showed that while Muslim and ethnic identity centrality decreased, American identity centrality increased; however, religious discrimination did not significantly impact these changes.
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Objectives: In order for parents, educators, and communities to support racially/ethnically minoritized youth to resist and heal from White supremacy, it is important to examine how youths' beliefs about their ethnic-racial identity (ERI) and critical consciousness (CC) around racism inform one another. Despite this need, limited empirical research examines whether these processes are related across adolescence.

Method: The present two-wave longitudinal study investigates whether ERI content (i.

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Grassroots movements such as Poder Quince exemplify how Latinx youth intertwine their cultural heritage and traditions with civic action to create positive change within their communities. Parents' cultural socialization messages have been shown to instill cultural pride and encourage prosocial behaviors (e.g.

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The purpose of this study is to examine how parents' documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) practices and the subsequent implications for Latinx youths' psychological adjustment. The mixed-methods approach combined convergent and exploratory sequential designs to explore the breadth and depth of Latinx parents' messages to their children regarding race and ethnicity. Qualitative data were used to generate hypotheses that were tested quantitatively.

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The current study expands on ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) among Latinx families to include sociopolitical discussions as a way to better understand how these practices relate to adolescents' developmental outcomes, including their ethnic-racial identity (ERI) and their sociopolitical development. More specifically, we examined whether there were direct links between parental ERS practices and sociopolitical discussions at home and adolescents' emergent participatory citizenship via their ERI processes (i.e.

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