Open AccessAssociations between racial and socioeconomic discrimination and risk behaviors among African-American adolescents and young adults: a latent class analysis
Author(s) -
Tiffany H. Xie,
Manik Ahuja,
Vivia V. McCutcheon,
Kathleen K. Bucholz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1433-9285
pISSN - 0933-7954
DOI - 10.1007/s00127-020-01884-y
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , latent class model , social class , epidemiology , psychology , demography , young adult , gerontology , african american , medicine , developmental psychology , environmental health , population , sociology , statistics , mathematics , ethnology , political science , law
Discrimination is a common stressor among African Americans and may increase vulnerability to risk behaviors, such as early initiation of substance use, substance use problems, and physical aggression; however, few studies have examined different types of discrimination and their associations with patterns of risk behaviors. This study examines the relationship between experiences of racial and socioeconomic discrimination and risk behaviors in African-American adolescents and young adults.