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At a northeastern university, 136 African American students completed measures of racial discrimination, social support, depression. and life satisfaction. The results revealed that 98.5 percent of the sample reported having experienced an incident of discrimination in the past year, and racial discrimination was positively associated with depressive symptoms and negatively associated with life satisfaction. Regression analysis failed to support the stressbuffering model, which predicted that social support would buffer the negative effects of discrimination. The social support mobilization model. which predicted that social support networks mobilize to support individuals against discrimination, was also not supported. Only the social support deterioration model, which predicted that social support would deteriorate for those exposed to discrimination, was supported. (35 ref)-Depurtment of Psychology. Stcite University of New Ynrk. Alhrmy.

ⅢThe purpose of the present study was to examine the role of cumulative ecological risk (i.e., neighborhood Youth exposed to psychosocial stressors such as poverty, chronic neighborhood disadvantage, violence, and stressful life events are at heightened risk for the development of a number of severe problems, including externalizing disorders~Attar, Guerra,

ⅢThe purpose of the present study was to examine the construct validity and reliability of the Brief Symptom

The current investigation examined the role of cumulative risk, family routines, maternal monitoring, mother-child relationship quality, and youth socioemotional competence in adjustment outcomes of 521 10-to 14-year-old low-income Latino early adolescents. Results showed that, as the number of risk factors increased, levels of externalizing and internalizing problems also increased. Furthermore, findings indicated that socioemotional competence was predictive of fewer externalizing and internalizing problems for females independent of the level of cumulative risk. Maintenance of family routines protected females exposed to elevated levels of cumulative risk from heightened levels of externalizing problems. Despite exposure to multiple risk factors, boys high in socioemotional competence and those boys reporting a good quality mother-son relationship were protected from elevated levels of adjustment problems. Results underscore the importance of examining within-group variability among young Latino adolescents.

This exploratory study examined the effects of hope and coping with race-related stress on life satisfaction in Black college students. Findings indicated that students with high hope had greater coping efficacy and used more problem-focused coping than students with low hope. Neither coping nor hope had a direct effect on life satisfaction. However, six of the nine Coping Hope interactions were significant. Contrary to expectations, the pattern of interactions suggested that for students with high hope, life satisfaction was associated with less frequent use of active coping strategies, and for students with low hope, life satisfaction was associated with greater use of active coping strategies. We suggest future directions for research on the role of hope and coping in Black individuals dealing with race-related stress.Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

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