Everyday discrimination, emotion, and daily interactions during adolescence

Danny Rahal; Virginia W Huynh; Michael R Irwin; Heather McCreath; Andrew J Fuligni

doi:10.1111/jora.12899

Everyday discrimination, emotion, and daily interactions during adolescence

J Res Adolesc. 2024 Mar;34(1):141-158. doi: 10.1111/jora.12899. Epub 2023 Dec 6.

Authors

Danny Rahal¹, Virginia W Huynh², Michael R Irwin^{3

4}, Heather McCreath⁵, Andrew J Fuligni^{3

4

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
² Department of Child and Adolescent Development, California State University at Northridge, Northridge, California, USA.
³ Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁵ David Geffen School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

PMID: 38058247
PMCID: PMC11298793 (available on 2025-03-01)
DOI: 10.1111/jora.12899

Abstract

The present study examined whether everyday discrimination relates to the frequency of adolescents' positive and negative daily social interactions and whether these associations are driven by anger and positive emotion. Adolescents (N = 334) participated in a three-wave longitudinal study, in which they completed surveys regarding everyday discrimination, anger, and positive emotion, as well as 15 daily reports of conflict and getting along with friends and family. Higher everyday discrimination was related to more daily conflicts and fewer experiences of getting along with other people. Longitudinal models also provided preliminary evidence that everyday discrimination was associated with daily conflicts 4 years later indirectly through anger. Overall, results suggest everyday discrimination relates to adolescents' daily experiences, potentially through differences in emotion.

Keywords: conflict; everyday discrimination; social interactions.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior* / psychology
Anger
Emotions*
Friends / psychology
Humans
Longitudinal Studies

Abstract

MeSH terms

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