Black teenagers experience daily racial discrimination, most frequently online, which can lead to negative mental health effects, according to a Rutgers researcher.
The study, published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, examined how often black teens experience racial discrimination each day—either personally or vicariously and online or offline.
The researchers surveyed 101 black youth between ages 13 and 17 from predominantly black neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., each day for two weeks about their experiences with racial discrimination and measured changes in their depressive symptoms across that period.