Perceiving Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage and Its Consequences for Self-Esteem among Asian-Americans

Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2014, vol. 6, issue 2, 117

Abstract: This study is the first to test experimentally (vs. correlationally) whether perceiving racial/ethnic disadvantageleads to lower self-esteem among Asian-Americans. We manipulated perceived disadvantage by havingAsian-American college students recall and write about experiences in which they were personallydisadvantaged because of their race/ethnicity, and examined the effects of perceiving disadvantage on variousoutcome measures, including racial/ethnic identity, racial/ethnic salience (the number of ethnic identitiesparticipants listed on the Twenty Statements Test), and self-esteem. Consistent with experimental research withother racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States, the self-esteem of Asian-Americans was unharmed byrecalling and describing past incidents of racially-based disadvantage.

Date: 2014
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