Applying stress and coping models to ethnic/racial identity, discrimination, and adjustment among diverse adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Adopting the constructs of exposure, reactivity, and recovery, from stress and coping frameworks, this study investigated three models of discrimination, adjustment, and ethnic/racial identity among 76 African American, 145 Asian American, and 129 Latinx adolescents who were majority United States-born. The sample includes adolescents sampled from public schools in a large urban area in the northeastern United States, 62% female and with an average age of 14.3 years. Multilevel analyses support an exposure effect (Model 1) where a higher level of ethnic/racial identity (ERI) commitment was associated with a 28% reduction in experiencing discrimination stress. The negative effects of discrimination were attenuated by ERI commitment and centrality/private regard, while effects were exacerbat

SUBMITTER: Yip T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9585506 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature