The role of racial identity in perceived racial discrimination.

By Robert M. Sellers, J. N. Shelton. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Ethnic and Racial Identity and Adolescent Well-Being (2007, methodology): “Research using a model of the qualitative content of racial identity has asked an alternative question with a sample of African American undergraduates (Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
Linking Perceived Unfairness to Physical Health: The Perceived Unfairness Model (2006, background): “Recent research on perceived racial discrimination and resulting distress suggest that for African Americans certain dimensions of racial identity—racial ideology and public regard beliefs— buffers the effects of perceived racial discrimination (Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
Identity, minority stress and psychological well-being among gay men and lesbians (2010, neutral): “Sellers and colleagues (Neblett, Shelton, & Sellers, 2004; Sellers, Caldwell, Schmeelk-Cone, & Zimmerman, 2003; Sellers & Shelton, 2003), for example, found that African Americans whose ethnic identity was more central to their overall identity experienced better psychological health in the face of…”
Racist Incident–Based Trauma (2005, background): “…is a significant factor in the well-being of African Americans (e.g., Feagin, 1991; Feagin & Sykes, 1994; Jackson et al., 1996; Kessler, Michelson, & Williams, 1999; Klonoff & Landrine, 1999; Klonoff, Landrine, & Ullman, 1999; Sellers & Shelton, 2003; Utsey, Ponteretto, Reynolds, & Cancelly, 2000).”
A Longitudinal Study of Social Status, Perceived Discrimination, and Physical and Emotional Health Among Older Adults (2012, background): “This perceptual process is influenced by social status, biographical experience, current emotions, and mental health condition (Blanchette & Richards, 2003; Schnittker & McLeod, 2005; Shelton & Sellers, 2000; Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
An examination of the relationship between general life stress, racism-related stress, and psychological health among black men. (2007, background): “With regard to gender, studies have suggested that Black men have a higher incidence of racial harassment and discrimination than Black women ( Sellers & Shelton, 2003 ) and also have posited that the experience of racism might be qualitatively different across genders (Moradi & Subich, 2003).”
Racial Identity Matters: The Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning in African American Adolescents (2006, methodology): “Based on previous research (e.g., Branscombe, Schmitt, & Harvey, 1999; Sellers & Shelton, 2003, Shelton & Sellers, 2000), we hypothesize that African American adolescents who feel that race is a more central identity and who believe that other groups have more negative attitudes toward African…”
Coping With Discrimination Among Mexican Descent Adolescents (2008, neutral): “Discrimination has been characterized as the daily hassles that occur because of the lower status of minority groups, including negative stereotypes or prejudiced comments, as well as negative actions toward individuals based on ethnic group membership (Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
When Do We Confront? Perceptions of Costs and Benefits Predict Confronting Discrimination on Behalf of the Self and Others (2012, methodology): “To assess how often participants experienced and observed sexism in their daily lives, we adapted previously validated measures of daily experiences of racism (Brondolo et al., 2005; Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
African American Resiliency: Examining Racial Socialization and Social Support as Protective Factors (2008, background): “…effects of racial identity—“the significance and qualitative meaning that individuals attribute to being Black in their conceptualizations of self” (Sellers & Shelton, 2003, p. 1080)—it would prove useful to specifically examine the link between resiliency and the aspects of African Americans’…”
Racial Ideological Beliefs and Racial Discrimination Experiences as Predictors of Academic Engagement Among African American Adolescents (2007, background): “…on psychological well-being and behavioral problems is increased for youth who identify with their Black identity less (Neblett, Shelton, & Sellers, 2004; Wong et al., 2003) and who are less aware of Blacks’ status as an oppressed group (Caldwell et al., 2004; Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
Gendered Racism, Coping, Identity Centrality, and African American College Women’s Psychological Distress (2016, background): “…with gendered racism, African American women with high levels of identity centrality may be able to feel good about themselves by focusing on the collective strength and positive aspects of their group; thereby buffering themselves from negative mental health consequences (Sellers & Shelton, 2003).”
Group-level self-definition and self-investment: a hierarchical (multicomponent) model of in-group identification. (2008, background): “Consistent with its conceptualization, and Sellers and Shelton (2003), we expected the centrality of Dutch identity to best predict perceived threat to the in-group.”
The Relationship Between Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination in an Afro-Caribbean Descent Sample (2006, background): “Sellers and Shelton (2003) noted that racial discrimination can take the form of “blatant (e.g. having reproachful remarks cited to you) to subtle (e.g. being under heavy surveillance in department stores)” (p. 1079).”