Development and validation of the Adolescent Racial and Ethnic Socialization Scale (ARESS) in African American families

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1072-1085

  Brown, Tiffany L ^a   Krishnakumar, Ambika ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent Racial and Ethnic Socialization Scale (ARESS); African American adolescents; African American parenting; Confirmatory factor analysis; Ethnic socialization; Racial socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548961867     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-007-9197-z     Document Type: Article

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