dc.description.abstract | African American and Latinx undergraduate students who attend historically white institutions continue to face incidents of discrimination which have been associated adverse health and academic outcomes (Del Toro & Hughes, 2019). Given the challenges associated with growing up as an ethnic-racial minority in society, many African American and Latinx young adults are often equipped with important culturally responsive familial and individual resources that may function as protector factors. Through ethnic-racial socialization messages received from parents, children learn how to navigate racialized contexts and develop an ethnic-racial identity, or an individual belief regarding the significance of their ethnic-racial group membership (Sellers et al., 1998). Ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity are multidimensional constructs and certain domains of both have been found to moderate the effects of ethnic-racial discrimination on health outcomes (Sellers & Shelton, 2003). However, most of this work has been conducted using cross-sectional data on adolescent samples and surprisingly few studies have investigated the moderating roles of ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity on the academic outcomes of college students who may frequently encounter ethnic-racial discrimination. In response to the gaps in literature, this study used a sample of 145 Black/African American and Hispanic/ Latinx (63%; 37% respectively) college students attending a historically white university in the Midwest to examine the short-term weekly effects of ethnic-racial discrimination on weekly academic outcomes (i.e., academic belonging, academic stress, negative academic behaviors). Weekly discrimination and academic data were reported over the course of 4 weeks. Additionally, this study examined the roles of key ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity domains as moderators on relationships between discrimination and academic outcomes. Findings highlight that on weeks when individuals reported higher than usual ethnic-racial discrimination, they also reported lower than usual academic belonging, and higher than usual negative academic behaviors. Further, the impact of ethnic-racial discrimination varied according to the type and frequency of ethnic-racial socialization and ethnic-racial identity domains. There were no significant associations between ethnic-racial discrimination and academic stress. | eng |