Racial/ethnic discrimination and well-being during adolescence: A meta-analytic review
By A. Benner, Yijie Wang, Yishan Shen, Alaina E Boyle, R. Polk, Yen-Pi Cheng. American Psychologist, 2018
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This meta-analytic study systematically investigates the relations between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and socioemotional distress, academics, and risky health behaviors during adolescence, and potential variation in these relations. The study included 214 peer-reviewed articles, theses, and dissertations, with 489 unique effect sizes on 91,338 unique adolescents. Random-effects meta-analyses across 11 separate indicators of well-being identified significant detrimental effects. Greater perceptions of racial/ethnic discrimination were linked to more depressive and internalizing symptoms; greater psychological distress; poorer self-esteem; lower academic achievement and engagement; less academic motivation; greater engagement in externalizing behaviors, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use; and more associations with deviant peers. Metaregression and subgroup analyses indicated differences by race/ethnicity, Gender × Race/Ethnicity interactions, developmental stage, timing of retrospective measurement of discrimination, and country. Overall, this study highlights the pernicious effects of racial/ethnic discrimination for adolescents across developmental domains and suggests who is potentially at greater risk.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- Child Development During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Through a Life Course Theory Lens (2020, background): “Ample evidence demonstrates negative associations between experiencing discrimination—directly or vicariously—and children’s and adolescents’ well-being (Benner et al., 2018), and we need research that documents the experiences of Asian American children’s and youth’s experiences of discrimination…”