Relationships between discrimination experience, school life adjustment and self-esteem of children of multicultural families

This paper examined the influence of discrimination against children of multicultural families in Korea on school adjustment and explored the possible mediating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between discrimination and school adjustment. Two salient results of this study are: (1) the study confirmed the fact that discrimination experiences negatively affect school adaptation, and (2) the study was able to confirm the partial mediating effect of self-esteem on the relationship between discrimination experiences and school adaptation.