Sources of Racial-Ethnic Socialization Messages Across Latine Adolescents' Egocentric Social Networks.

This article focuses on identifying multiple sources of racial-ethnic socialization (RES) messages among Latine adolescents using a novel egocentric social network approach. In a pilot study with 44 Latine youth aged 10–17, participants named important individuals ("alters") across immediate family, extended family, peers, school, and community contexts who provided various RES messages, including preparation for bias, cultural socialization, familism, and immigration socialization. Findings revealed that RES messages come from diverse social network members beyond parents, with adult, Latine, and female alters more frequently providing cultural socialization, while non-Latine alters more often discussed racial-ethnic discrimination. The study demonstrated the acceptability of the social network interview method and highlighted opportunities for strengths-based interventions leveraging multiple RES agents to support Latine adolescents’ racial-ethnic identity development and mental health.