The Role of Racial Discrimination in the Economic Value of Education Among Urban, Low‐Income Latina/o Youth: Ethnic Identity and Gender as Moderators | Zendy

Mroczkowski Alison L. | Zendy; Sánchez Bernadette | Zendy

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The Role of Racial Discrimination in the Economic Value of Education Among Urban, Low‐Income Latina/o Youth: Ethnic Identity and Gender as Moderators

Author(s) -

Mroczkowski Alison L.,

Sánchez Bernadette

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american journal of community psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113

H-Index - 112

eISSN - 1573-2770

pISSN - 0091-0562

DOI - 10.1007/s10464-015-9728-9

Subject(s) - ethnic group , psychology , identity (music) , racism , psychological resilience , structural equation modeling , health psychology , social psychology , low income , sociology , gender studies , public health , medicine , socioeconomics , statistics , physics , mathematics , nursing , anthropology , acoustics

The present study used resilience theory to explore relationships among perceived racial discrimination, ethnic identity, gender, and economic value of education (EVE) among urban, low‐income, Latina/o youth. It was expected that racial discrimination would predict poorer perceptions of the EVE among Latina/o adolescents. Ethnic identity was hypothesized to buffer the negative effect of racial discrimination on Latina/o students’ EVE. The participants in this study were 396 urban, low‐income Latina/o high school students from a large, Midwestern city who completed surveys in both 9th‐ and 10th‐grade. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships among racial discrimination, ethnic identity, and EVE. Results supported a protective model of resilience. Specifically, ethnic identity served as a protective factor by buffering the negative effect of perceived racial discrimination on EVE for male participants. The present study is the first to examine ethnic identity as a buffer of racial discrimination on EVE among Latina/o high school students. Future directions and implications are discussed.

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