Revisión sistemática

Published on 22 de mayo de 2024 | http://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2024.04.2910

Methodological considerations in the study of perceived discrimination at work and its association with workers health and occupational outcomes: A scoping review

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Association between the three main sociodemographic characteristics and their influence on perceived job discrimination.
Employee characteristicsN (%)Effect of discriminationReferences
Race/ethnicity/nationality55.2 (32/58)81.3% (26/32) of the studies found race/ethnicity/nationality to be a predictor of discrimination.[18,22,24,33,45,51,65,76–94].
18.7% (6/32) of the studies did not find race/ethnicity/nationality to be a predictor of discrimination.[19,20,52,95–97].
Sex/gender53.4 (31/58)67.7% (21/31) of the studies found sex/gender to be a predictor of discrimination, with a higher proportion of women than men.[18,19,22,29,33,41,49,65,76,80,81,83,86–88,90,94,98–101].
6.5% (2/31) of the studies found that sex/gender predicts discrimination, affecting more males than females.[91,95].
25.8% (8/31) of the studies did not find sex/gender to be a predictor of discrimination.[20,32,40,45,51,52,97,102].
Age32.8 (19/58)31.6% (6/19) of the studies found that age is a predictor of discrimination, being lower the older the person is.[88,90,91,94,97,103].
31.6% (6/19) of the studies found age to be a predictor of discrimination, with older age being higher.[30,33,41,79,83,98].
5.2% (1/19) of the studies found age to be a predictor of discrimination, being higher in middle age.[29].
31.6% (6/19) of the studies did not find age to be a predictor of discrimination.[20,32,40,93,96,100].

Source: Prepared by the authors of this study.