An Integrated Literature Review on Adolescents' Discrimination Experience: Focusing on Domestic Literature

Objectives This study analyzed the characteristics and types of discrimination experiences experienced by adolescents, and the effects of discrimination experiences focusing on domestic literature. Methods The literature on the impact of discrimination experiences on adolescents (middle and high school students) was searched, and nine documents finally selected among the documents published from January 2019 to January 2024 were synthesized and analyzed through an integrated review and qualitative evaluation. Results The experiences of discrimination set as variables in the selected research literature were school violence damage experience, discrimination damage experience, cyber violence damage experience, discrimination sighting experience, appearance discrimination, and gender discrimination, and were found to act as influencing factors among these variables. It was found that discrimination experiences also affect depression, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health. Conclusions It was confirmed that adolescents' experiences of discrimination had an important influence on the development process of growth, and policy proposals and inclusive culture creation were presented to protect them.