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Dual Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Its Psychological Mechanism

LIU Xia1, ZHAO Jing-xin2, SHI Bao-guo3   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China;
    3. Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037
  • Online:2011-03-15 Published:2011-03-15

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Abstract: Over the last decades,perspectives on prejudice and discrimination have primarily focused on their source-those who are members of dominant social groups,these researches therefore have been considered ‘a psychology of the powerful'.Recently in the time following Branscombe,Schmitt and Harvey(1999) work have systematic attempts to understand the dual effects of perceived discrimination from the psychology of disadvantaged groups.This article introduced the conceptualization and measurement of perceived discrimination and the researches about perceived discrimination's negative effects and indirect positive effects from the perspective of risk and resilience,and then expatiated on the psychological mechanism of the dual effects of perceived discrimination——rejection-identification model.In future research,the membership of disadvantaged groups,the different effects of perceived personal and group discrimination,and the mediator between perceived discrimination and its consequence should be explored in depth.Furthermore,more attention should be paid to the disadvantaged children.

Key words: perceived discrimination, effects, group membership, rejection-identification model

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  • B844
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