Self-Reflexive Journal

In this week's journal entry, you will critically reflect on your own beliefs and biases about your Final Research Paper topic by using the concept of self-reflexivity. Paraphrasing Crapo (2013), self-reflexivity is the process of confronting one's own preconceived notions and examining how these may influence how one understands (or misunderstands) others. Understanding biases and beliefs about other cultures helps researchers apply cultural relativism to their work.

For this journal, consider the sources that you summarized for Part I and Part II of your paper in your "Week Three Assignment Worksheet."

Part I Summary and reference:

The article, The mediating role of maternal warmth in the associations between harsh parental practices and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in Hispanic American, African American, and European American families byYildirim and Roopnarine, discusses parenting among several cultures of ethnicity and the associations between positive and harsh maternal practices and children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors. 1,922 low-income Hispanic American,African American, and European American families were involved in the research (Yildirim&Roopnarine, 2015). European Americans presented links between maternal psychological aggression and hostility and children's externalizing behaviors were direct (Yildirim&Roopnarine, 2015). Hispanic Americans had links between maternal psychological aggression, physical assault, and hostility and externalizing behaviors were direct, as was the link between maternal physical assault and internalizing behaviors (Yildirim&Roopnarine, 2015). African Americans presented maternal warmth partially mediated the links between maternal hostility and physical assault and externalizing behaviors (Yildirim&Roopnarine, 2015).

Reference

Yildirim, E. D., &Roopnarine, J. L. (2015). The mediating role of maternal warmth in the associations between harsh parental practices and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in Hispanic American, African American, and European American families. Cultural Diversity And Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21(3), 430-439. doi:10.1037/a0038210

Part II Summary and reference:

The article, An exploration of Australia's stolen generations and their journey into the past by Murphy, examines the role of the archive in the lives of Australia's Stolen Generations, pertaining to Aboriginal Australians who were removed from their families and institutionalized from 1910 until the mid-1970s. This article argues that returning to the archive is both an attempt to confront and negotiate past traumas and one's relationship to unknown worlds (Murphy, 2011). The author discuss details of the important links between returning to the archive and ideas of healing, and moving forward from past circumstances of hurt and grief (Murphy, 2011).

Reference

Murphy, F. (2011). Archives of sorrow: An exploration of Australia's stolen generations and their journey into the past. History and

Anthropology, 22(4), 481-495. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.

• What was your initial response to what you read?

• Can you identify any biases that you might have about the cultural practices you will discuss in either Part I or Part II of your Final Research Paper?

• Identify any problems you might be having in looking at your own culture from an etic perspective or the other culture from an emic perspective.

The journal entry should be at least 250 words in length.