Online Racism and Mental Health Among Black American Adolescents in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether rates of online racial discrimination changed over the course of 2020 and their longitudinal effects on Black youths' mental health.

Method

This longitudinal study collected 18,454 daily assessments from a nationally representative sample of 602 Black and White adolescents in the United States (58% Black, 42% White; mean age = 15.09 years, SD = 1.56 years) across 58 days during the heightened racial tensions between March and November 2020.

Results

Black youths experienced increases in online racial discrimination, and these increases were not fully explained by time spent online or by general cybervictimization experiences. Online racial discrimination predicted poorer same-day and next-day mental health among Black youths but not among

SUBMITTER: Del Toro J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9805489 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature