Racial Discrimination and Interpersonal Violence in Asian American Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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• Alternative Title:
  J Adolesc Health
• Personal Author:
  Lu, Yu ; Baumler, Elizabeth ; Wood, Leila ; Le, Vi D. ; Guillot-Wright, Shannon P. ; Temple, Jeff R.
• Description:
  Objectives:
  
  Racial discrimination targeting Asians in the U.S. has increased sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite a well-established link with mental/physical health outcomes, little is known about how racial discrimination relates to interpersonal violence, particularly in adolescents. To address this gap in knowledge, we examined cross-sectional and longitudinal (one year follow-up) associations between racial discrimination and interpersonal violence perpetration and victimization in Asian American adolescents in a large U.S. city.
  
  Methods:
  
  Data from Waves 3 (2020) and 4 (2021) of a randomized clinical trial of a school-based violence prevention program were examined. We limited our sample to participants who identified as Asian American (n = 344; 48.3% female; Meanage = 14.6 years at Wave 3).
  
  Results:
  
  At Wave 3, 26.5% of the adolescents reported experiencing some form of racial discrimination, including 18.3% experiencing verbal harassment due to race and 16.0% reporting inequitable treatment due to race. Relative to their non-victimized counterparts, adolescents who experienced racial discrimination were more likely to report being a victim of bullying and teen dating violence cross-sectionally and being a bullying victim longitudinally. Moreover, those who experienced racial discrimination reported more bullying and teen dating violence perpetration concurrently, as well as more dating violence perpetration one year later.
  
  Conclusion:
  
  In the understudied population of Asian American adolescents, we found that experiencing racial discrimination contributes to both interpersonal violence victimization and perpetration. Youth violence prevention could include strategies addressing racial discrimination.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Asian Asian American Adolescents Bullying COVID-19 Crime Victims Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Interpersonal Relations Interpersonal Violence Intimate Partner Violence Male Pandemics Racial Discrimination Racism United States Violence

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• Source:
  J Adolesc Health. 74(2):246-251
• Pubmed ID:
  37978955
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10843767
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 HD083445/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T42 OH008421/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  74
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:9cc340caeb965123d7cd05100bf223d4cdf9edca0f018b33d217edd1525b49fbb1b1343c2126a71bc40b3366dfe4fbca070a7cd98f3719dacff6de348a0febbb
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