Perceived Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity Profiles Among African American Adolescents

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-144

  Seaton, Eleanor K ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; African Americans Blacks; racial discrimination; racial identity; well being

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SELF ESTEEM; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEW ENGLAND; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RACE RELATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION; STUDENTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 65549089941     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015506     Document Type: Article

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