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Effectiveness of Youth Mentoring Interventions for African American and Latino Male Youth (November 2010 – November 2012)
This project uses research synthesis and meta-analysis to examine mentoring as an approach for addressing the myriad of challenging health and social outcomes faced by African American and Latino male adolescents and young adults. The specific aims of the project are: (1) to examine the overall impact of mentoring interventions for African American and Latino male youth; (2) to evaluate the extent to which previously identified moderators of mentoring intervention effectiveness (e.g., program design and implementation, mentor characteristics, and characteristics of mentor-mentee relationship) also moderate the effectiveness of mentoring interventions for African American and Latino male youth; and (3) to assess how racial, ethnic and cultural attributes of program participants (e.g., immigration status/level of acculturation) and mentoring interventions (e.g., promotion of racial/ethnic heritage, integration of spirituality, etc.) enhance youth health and social outcomes. It is anticipated that the study findings will contribute to the development of new and unique strategies that hold promise for addressing the unique health and social needs of African American and Latino male youth.
This project is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). To view Dr. Neblett’s RWJF grantee profile, please click here.
Individual and Situational Determinants of Psychophysiological Responses to Race-Based Discrimination (July 2009 – July 2011)
This project uses psychophysiological methods to investigate individual differences in responses to race-based discrimination. The project consists of a laboratory-based research study, but also uniquely examines psychophysiological responses to race-based discrimination outside of the laboratory. Building on postdoctoral research conducted at Howard University, and consistent with the stress and coping paradigm articulated by Lazarus and Folkman (1984), we are interested in examining individual and situational determinants of psychophysiological responses to race-based discrimination in laboratory and naturalistic settings. Individual determinants include sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) as well as racial and ethnocultural protective factors such as racial identity, Africentric worldview, and parental racial socialization. Situational determinants include characteristics such as the duration, setting, and overtness of a race-based discrimination experience, as well as the extent to which an individual attributes the discrimination experience to race. In sum, we are interested in underlying mechanisms and contributing factors that influence psychophysiological responses to race-based discrimination.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
- Do laboratory analogues of race-based discrimination elicit physiological changes in cardiovascular functioning?
- What individual and situational factors moderate physiological patterns of response to race-based discrimination and how?
- To what extent do subjective reports of psychological responses to race-based discrimination correspond to physiological responses to race-based discrimination?
- To what extent can the relationships among individual and situational factors and physiological responses to analogues of race-based discrimination be replicated in vivo?
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation (SES-0932268).
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