Emotional and self-esteem consequences of perceiving discrimination against a new identity group

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 195-201

  Meegan, Cahal K ^a   Kashima, Emiko S ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coping with prejudice and discrimination; Discounting model; Group identification; International students; Rejection identification model; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955728613     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01316.x     Document Type: Article

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