New DFG-Project: "MOSAIC - Minoritized Adolescents' Outcomes through Ethnic-Racial Socialization Across Interconnected Contexts"
New DFG-Project: “MOSAIC - Minoritized Adolescents' Outcomes through Ethnic-Racial Socialization Across Interconnected Contexts”
Participants: Miriam Schwarzenthal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Linda Juang (Universität Potsdam)
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Many adolescents in Germany experience ethnic discrimination in their everyday lives, with negative consequences for their socioemotional and academic adaptation. At the same time, young people differ considerably in how they cope with these experiences. While some are strongly affected, others show remarkable resilience. What helps adolescents thrive despite discrimination? This project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), investigates how families, schools, and peers can protect and support adolescents from minoritized backgrounds. The project focuses on ethnic-racial socialization, i.e., the behaviors and practices that communicate messages about ethnic, cultural, and racial group memberships. Using a combination of online surveys and daily digital diaries collected over the course of one school year, the project captures both adolescents' everyday experiences and their longer-term developmental trajectories. This innovative design allows us to capture both long-term developmental processes and daily fluctuations in discrimination experiences, ethnic-racial socialization, and socioemotional and academic adaptation. The findings will knowledge on the school, family- and peer-related resources which can strengthen adolescents’ resilience. In the long run, findings will serve to develop evidence-based recommendations for educators, families, and policymakers and to promote equal opportunities and participation for young people.
