Race and self-esteem: meta-analyses comparing whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians and comment on Gray-Little and Hafdahl (2000).

By Jean M. Twenge, Jennifer Crocker. Psychological bulletin, 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Relations of academic and general self-esteem to school achievement (2008, background): “Nevertheless, systematic reviews have shown that neither African Americans nor minorities living in the Western countries have lower general self-esteem (Gray-Little & Hafdahl, 2000; Porter & Washington, 1993; Twenge & Crocker, 2002; Verkuyten, 1994, 2005).”
Attributions to Discrimination and Self-Esteem: The Role of Group Identification and Appraisals (2006, background): “…and discrimination (e.g. African-Americans) have higher self-esteem on average compared to nonstigmatized groups (e.g. European Americans), whereas members of other devalued groups (e.g. Latino-Americans) report lower selfesteem on average compared to more valued groups (Twenge & Crocker, 2002).”
Self-esteem and multiculturalism: An examination among ethnic minority and majority groups in the Netherlands (2009, background): “This view is related to the already considerable research carried out on ethnic identity and self-esteem (see Gray-Little & Hafdahl, 2000; Twenge & Crocker, 2002, for reviews).”
Content Analysis of Gender Roles in Media: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Go? (2011, background): “2002), Black Americans’ self-esteem tends to be higher than that of White people (Twenge and Crocker 2002).”
Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence. (2003, background): “The objective view defines stress, in particular life events, as real and observable phenomena that are experienced as stressful because of the adaptational demands they impose on most individuals under similar circumstances (Dohren-wend, Raphael, Schwartz, Stueve, & Skodol, 1993).”
Factor Structure of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (2013, background): “…(e.g., China) or identify cultures in which self-criticism and negative self-esteem may be more common (e.g., collectivistic cultures; Twenge & Crocker, 2002) versus other cultures (e.g., the United States) that may emphasize enhancing positive views of the self (Boucher, Peng, Shi,…”
Living with a concealable stigmatized identity: the impact of anticipated stigma, centrality, salience, and cultural stigma on psychological distress and health. (2009, background): “Thus, for example, among visibly stigmatized racial minorities, African Americans routinely report higher self-esteem than do European Americans (GrayLittle & Hafdahl, 2000), but Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans report lower self-esteem than do European Americans (Twenge & Crocker, 2”
Prejudice and Discrimination as Social Stressors (2007, result): “This finding is not consistent across various ethnic groups: Although African Americans have scored higher than Whites on measures of self-esteem, other ethnic minorities have scored lower ( Twenge & Crocker, 2002 ).”
Cross-validation of the short form of the physical self-inventory (PSI-S) using exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) (2011, background): “Although previous studies suggest that average levels of physical self-concept may differ according to adolescents’ ethnicity (e.g. Halpern et al., 1999; Morin et al., in press; Siegel et al., 1999; Twenge & Crocker, 2002) and age (Marsh, 1998; Marsh et al., 2007), these studies also show that these”
Gender Differences in Domain-Specific Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis (2009, unknown): “Nevertheless, the differences in appearance, athletic, self-satisfaction, and moral–ethical selfesteem are larger than the established gender differences in verbal abilities, empathy, and adult aggression (Ashmore, 1990) and the White-Asian difference in self-esteem (Twenge & Crocker, 2002).”
Ethnic discrimination and global self-worth in early adolescents: The mediating role of ethnic self-esteem (2006, background): “…as with experiences of ethnic discrimination, which are lower for the Dutch, and self-feelings (ethnic selfesteem and global self-worth) which, similar to many other studies (see Gray-Little & Hafdahl, 2000; Twenge & Crocker, 2002, for reviews), are more positive among the ethnic minority groups.”