Racial/ethnic discrimination and well-being during adolescence: A meta-analytic review.

ABSTRACT: 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, an

SUBMITTER: Benner AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6172152 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature