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Ethnic and Racial Differences in Life Stress Among High School Adolescents
Author(s) -
Prelow Hazel M.,
Guarnaccia Charles A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1997.tb02360.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , socioeconomic status , psychology , multiculturalism , stress (linguistics) , white (mutation) , gerontology , demography , developmental psychology , medicine , sociology , pedagogy , population , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , anthropology , gene
L. A. Slavin, K. L. Rainer, M. L. McCreary, and K. K. Gowda's (1991) Multicultural Model of the Stress Process was used as the basis for exploring ethnic and racial differences in the life stress process among 103 Black, 129 Hispanic, and 105 White high school students from a multiethnic, predominantly minority, large urban school district. Cross‐group comparisons were made on life stress exposure, appraisal of negative event impact, social support, and psychological symptomatology. White adolescents reported more negatively impactful stressful life events and lower levels of received social support than did Black or Hispanic adolescents. Minority status predicted ethnic and racial differences independent of socioeconomic status.