ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2019
Linking perceived discrimination during adolescence to health during mid-adulthood: Self-esteem and risk-behavior mechanisms.
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- Perceived Everyday Discrimination, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Their Influence on Depressive Symptoms and Inflammation in Youth.Research in nursing & health · 2026Article
- Co-Producing Training Resources to Improve Healthcare Experiences for Young Women and Reduce Gendered Health Inequalities.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Accumulating disadvantage: Mechanisms linking discrimination histories and adolescent health.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- School Belonging and Racial Mistreatment: Association With Substance Use Among U.S. High School Students.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Self-esteem and suppression of negative emotions among medical students: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Experiences of ethnic-racial discrimination, self-esteem, and subjective well-being in the Peruvian population.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Discrimination Distress and Current Combustible and Non-combustible Tobacco Product Use Among US Youth, 2023.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Mechanism that links perceived racism and discrimination and youth cannabis use, a structural equation modeling approach.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- The role of childhood social fragmentation and perceived discrimination on maladaptive core schemas later in life among young adults at clinical high risk for psychosis and healthy comparisons.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Associations of perceived discrimination with health outcomes and health disparities in the All of Us cohort.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Associations of perceived discrimination with health outcomes and health disparities in themedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- The relationship between good governance, social support, and perceived discrimination with mental health through the mediation role of quality of life: a cross-sectional path analysis in Iran.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Determinants of peer education on sexual and reproductive health and rights among in-school adolescents in Ebonyi State, Nigeria.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- More Than Identity: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Mental-Emotional Well-Being of Emerging Adults by Centering Lived Experiences of Marginalization.American journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Cultural and Psychosocial Correlates of co-use among Black-White Biracial Adults.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- "The Fight is Two Times as Hard": A Qualitative Examination of a Violence Syndemic Among Young Black Sexual Minority Men.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- What Matters on Rural Left-Behind Children's Problem Behavior: Family Socioeconomic Status or Perceived Discrimination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
rationaleThe literature on the effect of perceived discrimination on health has three gaps. First, the long-term relationship between perceived discrimination and health is underexplored. Second, the mechanisms through which perceived discrimination affects health remain unclear. Third, most studies focus on racial/ethnic discrimination, and other aspects of discrimination are overlooked.
objectiveThis study aims to fill these gaps by testing a research framework that links the discriminatory experience during adolescence to an individual's health during mid-adulthood via self-esteem and risk behaviors at early adulthood.
methodStructural equation modeling is applied to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (N = 6478).
resultsThe discriminatory experience during adolescence imposes an adverse impact on health during mid-adulthood even after accounting for other potential covariates, a detrimental effect lasting for over 30 years. In addition, while perceived discrimination reduces self-esteem at early adulthood, it affects only mental health during mid-adulthood, rather than general health. Finally, the discriminatory experience promotes risk behaviors at early adulthood and the risk behaviors subsequently compromise health during mid-adulthood.
conclusionsUsing a life course perspective, we find that the effect of perceived discrimination is more profound than the literature suggested and that risk behaviors may account for approximately 17% of the total effect of perceived discrimination on health. Our findings highlight the importance of early interventions in coping with perceived discrimination during adolescence.
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