Strengths-Based Assets of Black Adolescents
Youth Development
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Our work explores how black youth draw on personal and cultural resources to thrive despite challenges to their identities from institutional racism. The research considers how youths’ self-efficacy and racial group identity beliefs function to promote academic and psycho-social adjustment. A greater understanding of such processes has the potential to improve black adolescents’ lives in a variety of tangible ways, from increases in their school grades and higher rates of higher education attainment, to enhanced psychological and socio-emotional well-being.
Principal Investigator
Contact
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Lissa Johnson
CSD Associate Director; Director of Administration and Research;
Co-Director Financial Capability and Asset Building
- Email: ejohnson@nospam.wustl.edu