This study examines whether neighborhood ethnic composition (i.e., percentage of Latina/os residing in a given residential community) predicts greater perceived experiences of ethnic discrimination and whether this direct effect is mediated by ethnic centrality (i.e., perceived importance of ethnicity for one’s identity). In a cross-sectional study, 237 self-identified young adult Latina/os reported their five-digit zip codes and sociodemographic information and completed measures of ethnic centrality and perceived ethnic discrimination. A mediation analysis revealed that neighborhood ethnic composition indirectly predicted perceived ethnic discrimination through its effect on ethnic centrality even when accounting for known sociodemographic predictors of perceived discrimination, b = 0.28, SE = .18, 95% confidence interval (CI) = [0.03, 0.71]. These results provide initial evidence that where young adult Latina/os live and grow up impacts the extent to which they find their ethnicity to be an essential part of their identity and, consequently, their perceived frequency of experiencing ethnic discrimination.

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邻里族裔组成和年轻成年拉丁裔/ os之间的感知歧视：种族中心的调解作用

这项研究检查了邻里种族构成（即，居住在给定居住社区中的拉丁裔/ os的百分比）是否预示着更多的种族歧视感知体验，以及这种直接影响是否由种族中心性（例如，感知到的种族对于个人身份的重要性）介导。 。在一项横断面研究中，有237名自我识别的拉丁裔成人/青年人报告了他们的五位数邮政编码和社会人口统计学信息，并完成了对种族集中度和感知到的种族歧视的衡量。中介分析显示，即使考虑已知的歧视感知的社会人口统计学预测因素，邻域种族构成也会通过其对种族中心性的影响而间接预测感知种族歧视，b = 0.28，SE = .18，95％置信区间（CI）= [0.03， 0.71]。