Evaluating Africentric Violence Prevention for Adolescent Black Males in an Urban Public School: An Idiothetic Approach

摘要: Overrepresentation of Black male students among suspensions and expulsions from public schools contribute to negative psychosocial functioning. The Imani Rites Passage program (IROP), sponsored by Family Renaissance Inc., is a time-limited Africentric intervention, designed enhance students’ life coping skills respond more appropriately situations. study seeks evaluate an idiothetic approach behavior change implementation the IROP in low-income school, comparing intervention no-intervention groups on measures informed cognitive-cultural model identity. After consent assent, participants completed online socialization, individual cultural identity, social competence, violence risk using school lab computers, followed 15 weekly sessions two hours each intervention. hypothesis was that (N = 20, mean age = 16.04) at posttest will exhibit greater stronger racial reduction than age = 15.42). findings evaluation indicated Africentrric socialization effect some predictor variables associated with reductions for group. They provide partial support hypotheses derived model. We conclude (1) can be successfully implemented public-school setting; (2) effects are partially consistent African American identity: (3) idiographic approaches sensitive normative type data analysis.