Department of Psychology, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Rd., Bronx, NY, 10458, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Sep;48(9):1736-1753. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01055-6. Epub 2019 Jun 22.
The numbers of Asian and Latinx adolescents are growing fast in the United States. While their ethnic/racial identity and experience of discrimination have been found to play important roles in their development, current scholarship has only begun to understand their longitudinal relationships. Moreover, most of the existing studies have examined these associations only at the between-person level. To address these gaps, the current study examined both between- and within-person longitudinal associations between ethn-ic/racial identity (exploration, commitment, private regard, and centrality) and discrimination over a 3-year period among a total of 241 adolescents (Asian: n = 139, Latinx: n = 102; female: 65.96%; M age = 15.27, SD = 0.66). The within-person approach using the random-intercept cross-lagged panel models explained the associations better than the between-person approach using the cross-lagged panel model. Specifically, reciprocal within-person longitudinal associations were found between discrimination and developmental dimensions of ethnic/racial identity (exploration and commitment) for Asian adolescents and content dimensions (private regard and centrality) for Latinx adolescents. These findings imply the usefulness of within-person longitudinal designs in understanding the associations between ethnic/racial identity and discrimination. Implications for potential similarities and differences in the longitudinal associations between ethnic/racial identity development and the experience of discrimination for the two groups are discussed.
美国的亚裔和拉丁裔青少年人数增长迅速。虽然他们的种族/民族身份和经历的歧视被发现对他们的发展起着重要作用，但目前的学术研究才刚刚开始了解他们的纵向关系。此外，大多数现有研究仅在个体间水平上检验了这些关联。为了解决这些差距，本研究在总共 241 名青少年（亚裔：n=139，拉丁裔：n=102；女性：65.96%；M 年龄=15.27，SD=0.66）中，在 3 年期间内，同时检验了种族/民族身份（探索、承诺、私人看法和中心地位）和歧视的个体间和个体内纵向关联。使用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型的个体内方法比使用交叉滞后面板模型的个体间方法更好地解释了关联。具体而言，对于亚裔青少年，歧视与种族/民族身份发展的维度（探索和承诺）之间存在相互的个体内纵向关联，对于拉丁裔青少年，歧视与种族/民族身份的内容维度（私人看法和中心地位）之间存在相互的个体内纵向关联。这些发现意味着个体内纵向设计在理解种族/民族身份与歧视之间的关联方面具有实用性。讨论了两组在种族/民族身份发展和歧视经历的纵向关联方面可能存在的相似性和差异。
