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Factors associated with discrimination among minority college students
Michael E Hall1, Ronald D Williams2, Tina M Penhollow3
1Florida Atlantic University, Department of Exercise Science & Health Promotion, Boca Raton, FL, USA. mhall61@fau.edu.
Objectives:
To assess minority college undergraduate and graduate students' self-reported stress, ethnic identity, and skin complexion as predictors of perceptions of racial discrimination.
Methods:
The participants (N = 172) were college-aged minority students. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted to examine the predictive relationship of the study variables on perceived racial discrimination.
Results:
Skin complexion (β = .34, p < .05) and ethnic identity (β = .25, p < .05) had a positive (increased frequency) relationship with racial discrimination. When separated by sex, stress was a statistically significant predictor β = .24, p < .05) of racial discrimination for males only.
Conclusions:
Understanding the predictors of perceived racial discrimination may allow for the development of interventions that alleviate the stress associated with discrimination.
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