Perceived ethnic discrimination and depressive symptoms: the protective effects of ethnic identity, religion, and ethnic social network

State Religion and Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities

Ethnic Identity and Discrimination among Children

We engaged almost 400 Canadian children aged five through eight years in a series of activities that were designed to reveal their beliefs about, self-identification with, and discrimination towards three ethnically phenotypic categories (White, East Asian, and South Asian). Our experiments took place at the children’s schools during their normal school day, allowing us to evaluate the salience...

Perceived Ethnic Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Biethnic Adolescents in South Korea

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the association between perceived ethnic discrimination and depressive symptoms among biethnic adolescents in South Korea. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study of 4141 biethnic adolescents using data from the 2012 National Survey of Multicultural Families. Perceived ethnic discrimination was measured using the question "Have you ever been discriminat...

National and ethnic identity in the face of discrimination: ethnic minority and majority perspectives.

Does the United States afford people of different backgrounds a sense of equal identification with the nation? Past research has documented ethnic/racial group differences on levels of national identity but there has been little research examining what psychologically moderates these disparities. The present research investigates how perceived group discrimination is associated with national an...

Ethnic and mainstream social connectedness, perceived racial discrimination, and posttraumatic stress symptoms.

Carter (2007) proposed the notion of race-based traumatic stress and argued that experiences of racial discrimination can be viewed as a type of trauma. In a sample of 383 Chinese international students at 2 predominantly White midwestern universities, the present results supported this notion and found that perceived racial discrimination predicted posttraumatic stress symptoms over and above ...