Coping with Ethnic–racial Discrimination: Short‐term Longitudinal Relations Among Black and Latinx College Students

McDermott, Elana R.; Zeiders, Katharine H.; Landor, Antoinette M.; Carbajal, Selena

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“…Experiencing marginalization might increase young adults’ desire to engage in behaviors that reflect positively on their ethnic/racial group (McGinley et al, 2010). For example, a study of Black and Latino/a young adults showed that discrimination was positively related to coping strategies that emphasized pride and working hard (McDermott et al, 2022). Other evidence among Mexican-heritage adolescents suggests that pride in ethnic/racial identity enhanced public prosocial behaviors in the context of experiencing cultural stressors (Brittian et al, 2013).…”

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Typologies of cultural stressors and assets: Exploring differential associations with prosocial behaviors and depressive symptoms among Latino/a young adults.

Partovi,

Carlo,

Torres

et al. 2024

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives: Scholars have demonstrated the consequences of cultural stressors on Latino/a adolescents' depressive symptoms and prosocial behaviors. However, there is little understanding of how different combinations of cultural stressors and assets might differentially relate to depressive symptoms and prosocial behaviors, particularly in young adulthood. This study used latent profile analysis to identify varying levels of cultural stressors (foreigner objectification and U.S. marginalization) and assets (family respect values and ethnic identity commitment) among Latino/a young adults. We then examined how profiles differentially relate to three forms of prosocial behaviors (care-based, altruistic, and public) and depressive symptoms. Method: Data derived from a national convenience sample of 1,288 U.S. Latino/a 18-21-year olds who completed a survey. Most were born in the United States (85%) and identified as women (72%). Results: Latent profile analysis revealed three profiles: (1) low cultural stressors/moderate cultural assets, (2) moderate cultural stressors and assets, and (3) high cultural stressors and assets. Profile 3 reported higher care-based prosocial behaviors compared to those with Profile 1; yet, those with Profile 1 had higher care-based prosocial behaviors compared to those with Profile 2. For altruistic and public prosocial behaviors, Profile 1 had higher and lower scores, respectively, compared to the other two profiles. Profile 1 showed lower scores for depressive symptoms compared to the other two profiles. Conclusions: Results indicate a nuanced interrelated pattern of cultural stressors and assets that vary and differentially relate to prosocial behaviors and depressive symptoms in Latino/a young adults. Public Significance StatementThis study finds that different levels of cultural stressors and cultural assets are differentially associated with Latino/a young adults' prosocial behaviors and depressive symptoms. In general, a strong connection to ethnic/racial identity and family respect values when facing high levels of cultural stressors seems to promote greater forms of some prosocial behaviors. However, strong cultural assets might not alone be sufficient to protect Latino/a young adults from the mental health consequences of cultural stressors.

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Typologies of cultural stressors and assets: Exploring differential associations with prosocial behaviors and depressive symptoms among Latino/a young adults.

Partovi,

Carlo,

Torres

et al. 2024

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…Third, items used to measure young adults’ race-related coping strategies were administered during the initial assessment (W1) and assessed youths’ general tendency to engage in passive or confrontational coping in response to discrimination. It is possible that young adults may have employed a variety of coping mechanisms to manage weekly encounters with discrimination ( 9 ) and that these strategies may have differed from the orientations reported during the initial assessment ( 73 ). Accordingly, extant literature may benefit from incorporating measures of race-related coping into momentary ecological assessments to better capture how individuals of color react to discrimination in a given situation and how these responses relate to young adults’ psychosocial health.…”

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Exploring the associations between discrimination, coping, skin tone, and the psychosocial health of young adults of color

Brown

Landor

Zeiders

et al. 2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Although valuable strides have been made in linking racial and ethnic discrimination to health outcomes, scholars have primarily used between-person methodological approaches, which assess the implications of reporting high or low mean levels of discrimination. Alternatively, within-person approaches assess the implications of intraindividual variation, or acute changes, in an individual’s exposure to discrimination. These approaches pose two fundamentally different questions about the association between discrimination and health, and empirical work that disaggregates these effects remains scarce. Scholars have also called for research exploring whether sociocultural factors—such as race-related coping and skin tone—contour these associations. To address gaps in extant literature, the current study examined 1) how an individual’s average level of exposure to discrimination (between-person) and weekly fluctuations in these encounters (within-person) relate to psychosocial health and 2) whether race-related coping (confrontational and passive coping) and skin tone moderate these associations. Analyses were conducted using weekly diary data from African American and Latinx young adults ( n = 140). Findings indicated that reporting higher mean levels of exposure to discrimination and encountering more discrimination than usual on a given week were both associated with poorer psychosocial health. Results also suggest that the efficacy of young adults’ coping mechanisms may depend on their skin tone and the nature of the discriminatory events encountered.

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Ethnic/Racial Identity, Adolescent Sleep, and Somatic Health: Discrimination and Stress Responses as Mediating Mechanisms

Xie,

Zhao,

Yan

et al. 2024

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Coping with Ethnic–racial Discrimination: Short‐term Longitudinal Relations Among Black and Latinx College Students

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Typologies of cultural stressors and assets: Exploring differential associations with prosocial behaviors and depressive symptoms among Latino/a young adults.

Typologies of cultural stressors and assets: Exploring differential associations with prosocial behaviors and depressive symptoms among Latino/a young adults.

Exploring the associations between discrimination, coping, skin tone, and the psychosocial health of young adults of color

Ethnic/Racial Identity, Adolescent Sleep, and Somatic Health: Discrimination and Stress Responses as Mediating Mechanisms

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