ERIC Number: EJ1482010
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 26
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0743-5584
EISSN: EISSN-1552-6895
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Culture, Coping, and Racial Discrimination Stress among Chinese American Youth: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study
Danni Li1; Jeffrey Liew1; Lisa Kiang2
Journal of Adolescent Research, v40 n5 p1075-1100 2025
Using a longitudinal mixed methods approach, this study examined Chinese American youth's experiences and coping with racial discrimination. Participants included 25 second-generation Chinese American youth who participated in an 8-year, three-wave longitudinal study. The participants' average age at Time 1 was 15.5 years. Participants were interviewed with open-ended questions about their experiences of discrimination growing up. In addition, quantitative survey data were collected to examine associations between youth's ethnic identity, acculturation, cultural values, coping, and discrimination stress. The interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Qualitative responses were coded and quantitative data were analyzed using independent sample t-tests. The participants reported both overt and covert experiences of racial discrimination. Despite facing racial discrimination, many Asian American youth chose to cope in culturally congruent ways that are consistent with their cultural values. Our findings provide new evidence that discrimination distress is linked to negative psychosocial outcomes, lower ethnic identity, and less recognition of heritage culture. Furthermore, our results suggest that culturally congruent coping strategies labeled as maladaptive in North American culture could be adaptive for Chinese American youth against discrimination distress. Study findings have implications for culturally responsive services and practices to support Chinese American youth to successfully cope with racial discrimination.
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Adolescents, Racism, Experience, Coping, Ethnicity, Acculturation, Cultural Influences, Stress Variables, Values, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas (Houston)
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Behavior Assessment System for Children
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Author Affiliations: 1Texas A&M University, College Station, USA; 2Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

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