Jessica Gutierrez

Grollman, E. (2012). Multiple Forms of Perceived Discrimination and Health among Adolescents and Young Adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 53(2), 199-214.

In the article named " Multiple Forms of Perceived Discrimination and Health Among Adolescents and Young Adults," is a study done on health. Disadvantaged groups are exposed to more stress factors but they do not receive as much coping resources, compared to other groups. The stress factors lead to health issues. Discrimination is a social stressor. The more that one is exposed to discrimination, the more that their health will get worse. Children begin to experience discrimination since the age of 5. This study was done on adolescent and young adults to investigate health consequences caused by discrimination. This article gathered their data from the Black Youth Culture Survey of the Black Youth Project. It is a national representative survey with 1,590 15 to 25 year old hispanic and black youth in the United States. The final sample of respondents was 1,052. The measures that were used were health, perceived discrimination and sociodemographic characteristics. A logistic regression model is used. The results were impressive. In table 1, 67 percent reported race discrimination. The majority of the sample, which was 60 percent, reported having experienced 2 or more forms of discrimination. All in all, there is a relationship between perceived discrimination and mental and physical health experiencing only one form of discrimination. Respondents who experience high levels of discrimination experience more depressive symptoms and worse health.

Nielsen, A., Bonn, L., & Wilson, S. (2010). Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos. Race and Social Problems, 2(3), 149-163.

In the article "Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos. Race and Social Problems," attitudes towards boths blacks and latinos are both studied.The goal of this study is to understand color coding among whites by determining racial and ethnic prejudices and if there is an association with policy outcomes, which involves spending on drug rehabilitation. This study uses data from the General Social Survey. They have a total of 864 respondents. The dependent variable is drug rehabilitation spending. The independent variables are prejudice and stereotypes. They control for period effects. Under descriptive results, for table 1, it proved that 62 percent of  respondents said too little money is being spent on drug rehabilitation. 55 percent of respondents opposed of having a relative marrying a black person. Findings from modern prejudice and social-distance-based traditional prejudice, demonstrate that racial and ethnic prejudices have some influence on drug-related attitudes.