Racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescents’ well-being: The role of cross-ethnic friendships and friends’ experiences of discrimination

Child Development

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 493-504

  Benner, Aprile D ^a   Wang, Yijie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNICITY; FRIEND; FRIENDSHIP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; RACISM; WELLBEING; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; SATISFACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RACISM;

EID: 84992153350     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12606     Document Type: Article

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