TITLE OF RESEARCH STUDY: What are you? Multiracial adolescent's racial identity development and its impact on self-esteem,
RESEARCH TEAM:  Student Investigator, Madison Fox, as part of Honors College undergraduate thesis project under the supervision of Primary Investigator (PI), Dr. Calvin Sims of the Psychology Dept. Office phone: (940) 565-2671. PI email address: madisonfox3@my.unt.edu

Your child is being asked to participate in a research study. Taking part in this study is voluntary. The investigators will explain the study to you and will any answer any questions you might have. It is your choice whether or not you allow your child to take part in this study. If you agree to have your child participate, and then choose to withdraw your child from the study, that is your right, and your decision will not be held against you.

Your child is being asked to take part in a research study about the relationship between a teenager’s multiracial identity and its effect on their self-esteem and mental well-being.
Participation in this research study involves your child completing three online questionnaires that will last approximately 30 minutes focusing on their multiracial identity and their mental health. More details will be provided in the next section.
Your child might want to participate in this study if they would like to add to the literature focused on multiracial identity development and how to healthily promote multiracial pride. However, your child might not want to participate in this study if they do not have time to complete the online questionnaires.
Your child may choose to participate in this research study if they are an adolescent between the ages of 15 and 17, with biological parents of different races, or identify as multiracial (AKA, mixed or biracial).

The reasonably foreseeable risks or discomforts to your child if you choose to allow him/her to take part is emotional distress from some questions that pertain to mental health and loss of confidentiality in the same way that using the everyday internet could risk losing confidentiality, which you can compare to the possible benefit of receiving mental health resources, information, and insight on their multiracial identity status. Your child will not be compensated for participation.