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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01 The student, Alia Alicea, accepted the attached license on 2025-04-30 at 11:14. The student, Alia Alicea, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2025-04-30 at 11:38. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2025-05-05 at 12:39. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22111 on 2025-10-19 at 19:16:51 Future fears: Discrimination, parental worries, and the role of social support from a partner Alicea, Alia Renee 2025-05-05 McNeil Smith, Shardé Marchand, Aixa D racial discrimination parental racial worries social support parent gender family planning reproductive decision-making Theory of Planned Behavior African American families eng Racial discrimination is a pervasive issue that affects multiple domains of life for Black Americans. These experiences not only impact individuals in the present but can also shape how they think about and plan for the future. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991), this study explores whether racial discrimination influences reproductive decision-making. Given the importance of relational and individual factors in family planning decisions, this study also considers whether the impact of discrimination differs based on the level of support from one’s romantic partner during stressful experiences or gender. Specifically, it examines: (1) whether racial discrimination is associated with parental racial worries about future children, and (2) whether partner social support and gender moderate this association. This study utilized secondary data from the National Couples’ Health and Time Study (NCHAT). The analytic sample included 166 Black adults aged 45 or younger who were not intending to have a child in the next year. Analyses conducted using the Hayes PROCESS macro in SPSS revealed that higher levels of racial discrimination were significantly associated with increased parental racial worries. However, neither partner support nor participant gender were significant moderators. These findings support research on anticipatory racial stress and highlight the impact of racism on reproductive decision-making. 2025-05 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/129613 Copyright 2025 Alia Alicea Human Dvlpmt & Family Studies Human Dvlpmt & Family Studies University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign M.S. Thesis