{"id":5351,"date":"2010-02-18T21:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2010-02-18T21:34:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:34:05","slug":"investigations-problem-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"Investigations: Problem behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.uchicago.edu\/0610\/investigations\/problem.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Investigations: Problem behavior<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.uchicago.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Chicago Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2006<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.uchicago.edu\/0610\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 99, Issue 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lydialyle Gibson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For American children, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/y-choi.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Yoonsun Choi<\/a>, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn\u2019t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there\u2019s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory of multiracial heritage. (Even the term is ambiguous; it can refer to having parents of different races or to generations-old diversity.) The multiracial experience frequently corresponds, Choi says, with higher rates of violence and substance use. \u201cConsistently multiracial youth show, in almost all behavior problems\u2014alcohol, smoking, marijuana, fighting\u2014more problems than other children.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cHowever, there is some indication that a strong ethnic identity\u201d with at least one race\u2014a sense of racial or cultural pride, belonging, and confidence\u2014\u201chelps protect kids from these behaviors,\u201d Choi says. But youths must strike a sometimes difficult balance. \u201cThis research is just emerging, but it is saying that ethnic identity for multiracial children is unique. They need to endorse every part of who they are, and for children of combinations from conflicting groups\u201d\u2014for instance, black and white or, Choi says, Asian and black\u2014\u201cthat will be hard.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.uchicago.edu\/0610\/investigations\/problem.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations: Problem behavior University of Chicago Magazine October 2006 Volume 99, Issue 1 Lydialyle Gibson For American children, says Yoonsun Choi, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration, early adolescence isn\u2019t getting any simpler. Besides the awkwardness and looming angst, there\u2019s this: more and more youth now find themselves navigating the uncertain territory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,394,20],"tags":[2226,2227,2228],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-lydialyle-gibson","tag-university-of-chicago-magazine","tag-yoonsun-choi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}