Perceived discrimination and psychological well-being in the USA and South Africa.
Objective. To explore levels of perceived racial and non-racial discrimination and their associations with self-esteem and mastery in the USA and South Africa. Design. We used ordinary least square regressions to test the cross-sectional associations between discrimination and psychological resource...
| Publicado en: | Ethnicity & Health Vol. 17; no. 1/2; pp. 111 - 134 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2012
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