Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Racial/ethnic discrimination is a commonplace experience for many adolescents of color, and an increasing number of studies over the past 25 years have sought to document discrimination and its consequences at this stage of the life course. The evidence is clear and convincing that racial/ethnic discrimination is harmful for adolescents' socioemotional and behavioral well-being as well as their academic success. Discrimination measurement, however, poses a critical source of potential variation in the observed effect sizes capturing the associations between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescents' well-being. This meta-analysis integrated 1,804 effect sizes on 156,030 unique ethnically- and geographically-diverse adolescents (M _age = 14.44, SD =

SUBMITTER: Benner AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11244658 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature