Egalitarian socialization and subjective well-being in multiracial individuals: a moderated mediation analysis
Description
Scholarly interest in racial socialization is growing, but researchers' understanding of how and when racial socialization relates to subjective well-being is underdeveloped, particularly for multiracial populations. The present study investigated the possibility that the relationship of racial socialization to subjective well-being is mediated by racial identification and that this mediation depends on physical racial ambiguity. Specifically, the proposed study used a moderated mediation model to examine whether the indirect relation of egalitarian socialization to subjective well-being through racial identification is conditional on physical racial ambiguity among 313 multiracial individuals. Results suggested egalitarian socialization was positively correlated with subjective well-being. The results provided no support for the moderated mediation hypothesis. The present study examined the complex interaction between racial socialization, racial identification, physical racial ambiguity, and subjective well-being among multiracial individuals. Despite receiving no support for the moderated mediation hypothesis, this research helped to further explicate a distinct pathway through which egalitarian socialization impacts well-being through racial identification for multiracial individuals independent of physical racial ambiguity.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2016
Agent
- Author (aut): Villegas-Gold, Roberto Y
- Thesis advisor (ths): Tran, Giac-Thao
- Committee member: Kinnier, Richard
- Committee member: Yoo, Hyung Chol
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University