Parental racial identity as a resilience factor for the intergenerational transmission of race-based traumatic stress within Black American families.

OBJECTIVE: Leveraging a historical trauma framework, this study examined the associations between parent race-based traumatic stress (RBTS), parent racial identity (RI), and child internalizing symptoms within a sample of Black/African American parent-adolescent dyads. METHOD: = 11.58 years) reported on their own internalizing symptoms. RESULTS: Hierarchical linear regression analyses indicated that higher levels of parent individual and institutional RBTS were significantly associated with increased adolescent internalizing symptoms. Furthermore, parent RI was found to be a significant moderator; specifically, higher levels of parent private regard-one's personal feelings about their racial group-buffered the negative association between parent institutional RBTS and adolescent internalizing symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: These findings underscore the protective role of positive RI in interrupting the intergenerational transmission of stress and highlight the importance of culturally responsive interventions that foster racial resilience in Black families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).