title: Ethnic identity and the daily psychological well-being of adolescents from Mexican and Chinese backgrounds.
abstract: Protective effects of ethnic identity on daily psychological well-being were examined in a sample of 415 ninth graders from Mexican and Chinese backgrounds. Utilizing daily diary assessments and multilevel modeling, adolescents with a greater regard for their ethnic group exhibited greater levels of daily happiness and less daily anxiety averaged over the 2-week study period. Ethnic regard moderated the daily association between normative stressful demands and happiness, and between stressful demands and happiness experienced 1 day after stressors occurred. Moderating effects were significant even after controlling for self-esteem. Although no buffering effects of ethnic centrality were found, the results point to the positive influence of ethnic regard in the daily lives of adolescents from ethnic minority backgrounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. kiangL@wfo.edu
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kiang
authors.forename: Tiffany
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yip
authors.forename: Melinda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonzales-Backen
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Witkow
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fuligni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States