Perceived discrimination and collective fear in Mexican-heritage adolescents

News Media Representations: Audience Perceptions of News Frames About Latinxs and Hispanics

“…While the employed frames are not inherently positive or negative, previous literature has found that specific narratives about Latinxs and Hispanics tend to be connected to representations with a positive, neutral, or negative valence. For instance, researchers have found that society—with the help of the media—has created an urgency for Latinxs/Hispanics to assimilate into the mainstream American culture (Burdick-Will & Gómez, 2006), which in turn has produced varying acculturation stressors among these communities (e.g., Cervantes et al, 2019; Ju Shin et al, 2023). In this part of the survey, respondents had the option to select the following frequencies related to their perception of positive/negative representations about the entire U.S.-born and Latinx/Hispanic populations: “never,” “sometimes,” “about half the time,” “most of the time,” and “all the time,” which was a scale with 1 meaning no perception of news related to the frames and 5 representing pervasive perception of the frames.…”