Knowing your roots: the effects of ethnic identity on adolescent mental health and discrimination

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Authors

Corinne Archibald¹ , Maihcen Ware¹ , Adam Rogers¹

1. BYU

Conference / event

BYU Fulton Conference, April 2022 (Provo, United States)

Poster summary

This study investigates whether ethnic identity can be a protective factor against racial discrimination and the effects it has on anxiety, pain, and suicide ideation among minority adolescents. Understanding these relationships could help understand how to better support minority youths and foster better mental health among them.

Keywords

Mental health, Racial discrimination, Ethnic identity, Adolescence of color

Research areas

Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2023 Archibald et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.