Summary: Ethnic And Racial Identity

This article were written by: Deborah Rivas-Drake, Carol Markstrom, Moin Syed, Richard M. Lee, Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Tiffany Yip, Eleanor K. Seaton, Stephen Quintana, Seth J. Schwartz, and Sabine French studied four different races, African American, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Native American, to understand their outlook on their race according to their culture. Their outlook of their culture was described as the Ethnic and Racial Identity (ERI). This article was prepared as part of the Ethnic and Racial Identity in the 21st Century working group. The actual study focused three different factors: psychosocial functioning and mental health, academic outcomes, and health risk outcomes as the result of ERI.
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In adolescents, there is a diverse facets of ERI, but they are not positively associated with psychosocial. Some studies done between African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans youths showed that mental health indicators were not associated with psychosocial factors. The study did show positive connections in mental health indicators in Asian American and Pacific Islanders. During this study most results was reflected back to cultural factors like, historical migration, immigration status, national origin among Asian Americans and Latinos, and tribal and reservation versus non-reservation status among Native
“The associations between ERI and health risk behaviors are less consistent than are the associations of ERI with psychosocial functioning” (Rivas-Drake et al. 2014). Many definitive and mixed conclusions were made among Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans. Some risk behavior was alcohol use among Latinos and substance use among Native Americans. Among the research was a study about gender roles. “Differing gender roles across groups may also affect the links between ERI and sexual behavior but more research, both within and across groups, is needed to understand these associations” (Rivas-Drake et al. 2014). The study of health risk and behavior is still under research. To farther their research they are focusing on, “how more dynamic aspects of gender, such as gender identity or gender roles, intersect with ERI constructs" (Rivas-Drake et al.