This study examined male Asian international college students' perceptions of racial discrimination, subjective masculinity stress, centrality of masculine identity, and psychological distress by testing a moderated mediation model. Participants were 160 male Asian international college students from 2 large public universities. Participants' perceived racial discrimination was positively relat...

Does anticipated future racial discrimination undermine African-American adolescents’ academic motivation and performance? Do face-to-face experiences with racial discrimination at school undermine African-American adolescents’ academic functioning? Does African-American ethnic identity buffer these relations? This paper addresses these questions using two waves of data from a longitudinal stud...

The study examined the contribution of domain-specific cultural orientation and racial discrimination to subjective competence (as measured by sense of coherence) in American-born and immigrant Chinese American young adults. It was hypothesized that sense of coherence would be more strongly predicted by domain-specific cultural orientation for immigrants, but by racial discrimination for Americ...

BACKGROUND Emerging evidence suggests that exposure to discrimination may be associated with atherosclerosis in African-American women, although research in this area focused on short-term rather than chronic exposure to discriminatory events. METHODS We examined the relationship between chronic exposure to multiple types of discrimination (self-reported and averaged over 5 years) and coronar...

In recent years there have been several studies of racial discrimination in the British labour market which made use of an experimental technique. Between November 1983 and November 1988 we applied such a technique to provide a direct measure of labour market discrimination in the Australian state of Victoria. The results of our test for sexual discrimination in the labour market have been publ...

Chakraborty & McKenzie (2002) ask: ‘Does racial discrimination cause mental illness?’ In raising criticisms of their paper, one might risk allegations of political incorrectness, but hopefully readers will feel that science is a more important consideration. The question that they pose is, to my mind, a simplistic one which is likely to give rise to a simplistic answer. To ask ‘does smoking cau...

The NBA provides an intriguing place to assess discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of splitsecond decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to become evident. We find that more personal fouls are awarded against players when they are officiated by an opposite-race officiating crew than when o...

Chakraborty & McKenzie (2002) ask: ‘Does racial discrimination cause mental illness?’ In raising criticisms of their paper, one might risk allegations of political incorrectness, but hopefully readers will feel that science is a more important consideration. The question that they pose is, to my mind, a simplistic one which is likely to give rise to a simplistic answer. To ask ‘does smoking cau...

Chakraborty & McKenzie (2002) ask: ‘Does racial discrimination cause mental illness?’ In raising criticisms of their paper, one might risk allegations of political incorrectness, but hopefully readers will feel that science is a more important consideration. The question that they pose is, to my mind, a simplistic one which is likely to give rise to a simplistic answer. To ask ‘does smoking cau...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The vulnerability of certain races and ethnicities may be worsened by the subjectivity of pain. So, this study aimed at identifying whether there has been racial discrimination in pain control by health professionals. CONTENTS: This is a literature review and queried databases were: PubMed/Medline, LILACS, SciELO, Cochrane, EMBASE, SCOPUS and psycINFO with keywords in...