Ethnicity and Gender in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: Group Identity and Awareness of Bias

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 463-471

  Brown, Christia Spears ^a   Alabi, Basirat O ^b   Huynh, Virginia W ^b   Masten, Carrie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Ethnic identity; Gender identity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AWARENESS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 79952597235     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021819     Document Type: Article

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