TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiles of Coping with Ethnic-Racial Discrimination and Latina/o Adolescents’ Adjustment
AU - McDermott, Elana R.
AU - Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.
AU - Zeiders, Katharine H.
N1 - Funding Information:
E.R.M. conceived the current investigation, conducted statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript; A.U.T. designed the larger study, led and coordinated data collection, conceived the current investigation, and helped to draft the manuscript; K.H.Z. conceived the current investigation, and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. This work was funded by internal seed funds from the PIs institution. This manuscript?s data will not be deposited.
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PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - The approaches Latina/o youth use for coping with discrimination have important consequences for their adjustment. Yet, little research has examined how adolescents draw on different coping strategies and how patterns of strategies may differentially predict their outcomes. The current investigation examined adolescents’ patterns of coping strategies, changes in these patterns over time, and whether profile membership or transitions in profile membership related to adolescent adjustment. Among a longitudinal sample of Latina/o adolescents (N= 323, 49.5% female, M age = 15.31 years), three profiles of coping strategies emerged: Passive and Moderately Proud, Confrontative, and Proactive. Latent Transition Analysis showed that these profiles were stable over time, that a majority of youth remained in the same profile of strategies across three years, and that the profiles were differentially related to adolescents’ adjustment. The findings showed that individuals in the Proactive profile reported higher self-esteem and academic motivation than adolescents drawing on different repertoires of coping strategies. These results provide new insights regarding the concurrence of strategies Latina/o youth use to cope with ethnic-racial discrimination and suggest that the adoption of proactive strategies as part of a repertoire of coping strategies could potentially reduce the negative effects of discrimination among adolescents.
AB - The approaches Latina/o youth use for coping with discrimination have important consequences for their adjustment. Yet, little research has examined how adolescents draw on different coping strategies and how patterns of strategies may differentially predict their outcomes. The current investigation examined adolescents’ patterns of coping strategies, changes in these patterns over time, and whether profile membership or transitions in profile membership related to adolescent adjustment. Among a longitudinal sample of Latina/o adolescents (N= 323, 49.5% female, M age = 15.31 years), three profiles of coping strategies emerged: Passive and Moderately Proud, Confrontative, and Proactive. Latent Transition Analysis showed that these profiles were stable over time, that a majority of youth remained in the same profile of strategies across three years, and that the profiles were differentially related to adolescents’ adjustment. The findings showed that individuals in the Proactive profile reported higher self-esteem and academic motivation than adolescents drawing on different repertoires of coping strategies. These results provide new insights regarding the concurrence of strategies Latina/o youth use to cope with ethnic-racial discrimination and suggest that the adoption of proactive strategies as part of a repertoire of coping strategies could potentially reduce the negative effects of discrimination among adolescents.
KW - Academic
KW - Adolescent
KW - Coping
KW - Ethnic-racial discrimination
KW - Latina/o
KW - Mental health
KW - Self-esteem
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-018-0958-7
DO - 10.1007/s10964-018-0958-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 30471057
AN - SCOPUS:85057120369
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 48
SP - 908
EP - 923
JO - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
JF - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
IS - 5
ER -