Citation

Rivera FI, López I, Guarnaccia P, Ramirez R, Canino G, Bird H. J. Immigr. Minor. Health 2011; 13(3): 453-461.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816-1360, USA, firivera@mail.ucf.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10903-010-9421-x

PMID

21113817

PMCID

PMC3113547

Abstract

This study examined whether perceived discrimination was related to antisocial behaviors (ASB) in a probability sample of Puerto Rican children living in the South Bronx, New York and the San Juan Metropolitan area of Puerto Rico (N = 1,271). After adjusting for a host of well-known factors associated with ASB, such as sociodemographic variables (i.e., age, gender, household composition), psychosocial stressors (i.e., stressful life events, exposure to violence), and various forms of violence and abuse (i.e., coercive parental discipline, verbal, psychological, physical and sexual abuse), perceived discrimination remained a robust correlate of ASB among both samples. Findings are discussed with reference to the detrimental associations of perceived discrimination.

Language: en