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Adolescent Self-Esteem: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Age - PMC
Large-scale representative surveys of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students in the United States show high self-esteem scores for all groups. African-American students score highest, Whites score slightly higher than Hispanics, and Asian Americans ...
According to Mead (1934), self-esteem is affected by perceptions of how generalized others (e.g., majority group members, society) view an individual or group. Thus, the prediction would be that, because African Americans are a stigmatized group in the United States, they will have lower self-esteem
however, this theory is not supported by existing data—African Americans seem to consistently report higher levels of self-esteem than Whites, whereas Asian Americans report the lowest levels.