title: Perceived discrimination and peer victimization among African American and Latino youth.
abstract: Perceptions of racial discrimination constitute significant risks to the psychological adjustment of minority youth. The present study examined the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and peer nominations of victimization among 173 (55 % female) African American, European American and Latino youth. All respondents completed peer nominations of victimization status whereas the African American and Latino youth completed subjective measures of racial discrimination. The results indicated that African American and Latino's subjective perceptions of racial discrimination were linked to nominations of overt and relational victimization when rated by their European American peers. The results suggest that there is consistency between African American and Latino youth's perceptions of racial discrimination and nominations of peer victimization by their European American peers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. eseaton@unc.edu
authors.forename: Eleanor K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Seaton
authors.forename: Enrique W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Neblett
authors.forename: Daphne J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Mitchell J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Prinstein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D063505:Racism / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D057566:Self Report; D012938:Social Perception; D015144:Southeastern United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology