Race and gender influences on adjustment in early adolescence: Investigation of an integrative model
Race and gender influences on adjustment in early adolescence: Investigation of an integrative model
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-8624.00491
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发表时间：
2002-09-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Hardesty, JL
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作者：
DuBois, DL;Burk-Braxton, C;Hardesty, JL
This research investigated an integrative model of race- and gender-related influences on adjustment during early adolescence using a sample of 350 Black and White youth. In the proposed model, prejudice / discrimination events, as well as race and gender daily hassles, contribute to a general stress context. The stress context, in turn, influences levels of emotional and behavioral problems in adjustment, with these associations mediated (in part) by intervening effects on self-esteem. Racial and gender identity similarly have positive effects on adjustment via their intermediary linkages with self-esteem. Structural equation modeling analyses provided support for all of these aspects of the model. Findings also revealed theoretically predicted differences in model parameters across race by gender subgroups. These include a direct effect of prejudice / discrimination events on emotional problems specific to Black youth and an effect of gender identity on self-esteem specific to girls. Black girls appeared to be most vulnerable to exhibiting significant adjustment difficulties as a result of the processes under investigation.
