Atitudes, crenças e práticas parentais e a identificação étnico-racial de crianças negras adotadas – uma perspectiva bioecológica.

Abstract

Racial socialization can be defined as adults’ behaviors who live with the child aimed at assisting them in developing strategies to face prejudice and racial discrimination. Racial socialization is seen as an important tool for the development of a positive ethnic-racial identity. Thus, this work sought to understand how the parental attitudes and beliefs related to ethnic-racial are linked to the engagement in practices of racial socialization and its influence in the child’s ethnic-racial identification. For such, 112 parents completed an online questionnaire on Qualtrics, divided into 5 blocks: (1) sociodemographic questions; (2) negative parental attitudes about Black people; (3) parental beliefs about the importance of racial socialization; (4) parental practices of racial socialization; (5) parent’s perceptions of their child’s ethnic-racial identification. The data obtained were tabulated using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software (SPSS, version 20) and subjected to factor analysis, instrument reliability testing and then descriptive analyzes, correlation test, and linear regression were conducted. The results indicated that negative attitudes about Black people, beliefs and parenting practices aimed at racial socialization were significantly correlated with the perception of a positive ethnic-racial identification of their children.