Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Discrimination and its relation to psychosocial well‐being among diverse youth in Sweden
Department of Psychology University of Gothenburg Gothenburg (SWE).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0617-3813
University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, Division of Psychology, Pedagogy and Sociology. (BUV)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2901-0187
Department of Psychology University of Gothenburg Gothenburg (SWE).
Department of Psychology University of Minnesota Twin Cities (USA).
2021 (English)In: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, ISSN 1520-3247, E-ISSN 1534-8687, Vol. 176, p. 163-181Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Experiences of discrimination and links to well-being have been examined extensively, but several gaps remain. The current study addresses four of those gaps by (1) examining both aggregated and source-specific forms of discrimination, (2) comparing the experiences of minority and majority group members, (3) expanding the range of outcomes to include socially and developmentally appropriate measures, and (4) conducting the study in Sweden, a context in which discrimination and well-being are not well understood. The sample consisted of 573 adolescents and emerging adults (71% women, Mage = 19.21 years) who completed survey measures of discrimination and psychosocial well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction, school adjustment, and identity distress). Findings indicated that minority groups reported more frequent discrimination, and more often cited ethnicity as the source of discrimination, whereas majority groups most often cited gender. Experiencing discrimination was related to poorer psychosocial well-being similarly for all groups. Youth experiencing ethnic discrimination were more often subjected to multiple forms of discrimination compared with those subjected to other forms of discrimination. Taken together, this study brings important information on the complexity of discrimination among youth in the multicultural context of migration in Sweden.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. Vol. 176, p. 163-181
Keywords [en]
Developmental and Educational Psychology, General Medicine, Social Psychology
National Category
Applied Psychology
Research subject
Child and Youth studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-17807DOI: 10.1002/cad.20399ISI: 000747210700009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104964796OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-17807DiVA, id: diva2:1612226
Available from: 2021-11-17 Created: 2021-11-17 Last updated: 2022-04-01

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(202 kB)527 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 202 kBChecksum SHA-512
38463e4c2cd0709dac04d096cf3531d2a58625da606ca770ca1fff847580067bc3b8566615e7c9eaf73f46e1fa3fb5b5f18f16bffebb5b5b75b8e537c66668e3
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Svensson, Ylva

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Gyberg, FannySvensson, Ylva
By organisation
Division of Psychology, Pedagogy and Sociology
In the same journal
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
Applied Psychology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 527 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 96 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf