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Trajectories of Online Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning Among African American and Latino Adolescents
Author(s) -
Tynes Brendesha M.,
English Devin,
Del Toro Juan,
Smith Naila A.,
Lozada Fantasy T.,
Williams David R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.13350
Subject(s) - psychology , african american , anxiety , developmental psychology , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , psychiatry , ethnology , history
This study investigated trajectories of individual and vicarious online racial discrimination (ORD) and their associations with psychological outcomes for African American and Latinx adolescents in 6th–12th grade ( N = 522; M grade = 9th) across three waves. Data were analyzed using growth mixture modeling to estimate trajectories for ORD and to determine the effects of each trajectory on Wave 3 depressive symptoms, anxiety, and self‐esteem. Results showed four individual and three vicarious ORD trajectories, with the majority of participants starting out with low experiences and increasing over time. Older African American adolescents and people who spend more time online are at greatest risk for poor psychological functioning.