scholarly journals Racial discrimination and depressive symptoms among African-American men: The mediating and moderating roles of masculine self-reliance and John Henryism.

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick D. Matthews ◽  
Wizdom Powell Hammond ◽  
Amani Nuru-Jeter ◽  
Yasmin Cole-Lewis ◽  
Travis Melvin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
African American Men ◽  
John Henryism ◽  
Self Reliance

Racial Discrimination as a Risk Factor for African American Men’s Physical Partner Violence: A Longitudinal Test of Mediators and Moderators

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara E. Sutton ◽  
Leslie Gordon Simons ◽  
Brittany T. Martin ◽  
Eric T. Klopack ◽  
Frederick X. Gibbons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Hostile Attribution Bias ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Prospective Data ◽  
Hostile Attribution ◽  
Ipv Perpetration ◽  
Attribution Bias

Although researchers have explored negative individual consequences of racial discrimination, very little work has examined the connection between discrimination and intimate partner violence (IPV) among African American men. Existing work tends to be cross-sectional and does not specify mediators or moderators that might explain this link. Thus, in the current study, we use longitudinal, prospective data from 200 young men to examine potential mediators and moderators of this association. Results demonstrated that anger and hostile attribution bias mediate the association between racial discrimination and IPV perpetration. Both corporal punishment and authoritative parenting acted as moderators, but the patterns of influence differed.

The Sit-In Movement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Black College ◽  
School Students ◽  
A Chain

One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit-in movement began on February 1, 1960 when four young African American men sat down at the whites-only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Refused service, the four college students sat quietly until the store closed. They continued their protest on the following days, each day joined by more fellow students. Students in other southern cities learned what was happening and started their own demonstrations, and in just weeks, lunch counter sit-ins were taking place across the South. By the end of the spring, tens of thousands of black college and high school students, joined in some cases by sympathetic white students, had joined the sit-in movement. Several thousand went to jail for their efforts after being arrested on charges of trespass, disorderly conduct, or whatever other laws southern police officers believed they could use against the protesters. The sit-ins arrived at a critical juncture in the modern black freedom struggle. The preceding years had brought major breakthroughs, such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling in 1954 and the successful Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–1956, but by 1960, activists were struggling to develop next steps. The sit-in movement energized and transformed the struggle for racial equality, moving the leading edge of the movement from the courtrooms and legislative halls to the streets and putting a new, younger generation of activists on the front lines. It gave birth to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the most important activist groups of the 1960s. It directed the nation’s attention to the problem of racial discrimination in private businesses that served the public, pressured business owners in scores of southern cities to open their lunch counters to African American customers, and set in motion a chain of events that would culminate in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned racial discrimination in public accommodations across the nation.

Which Personality Traits Moderate the Relationship Between Religious Capital and Depressive Symptomology in a National Sample of African Americans?

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddie M. Clark ◽  
Cheryl L. Holt ◽  
Min Qi Wang ◽  
Beverly R. Williams ◽  
Emily Schulz
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
African American Men ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Depressive Symptomology ◽  
Religious Capital ◽  
The Relationship

The present study examined the relationship between religious capital and depressive symptoms and the moderating role of the Big Five personality constructs in a national sample of African American adults. Data were collected from a national probability sample of 803 African American men and women using a telephone survey including measures of the Big Five personality traits, religious capital, and depressive symptomology. Most interestingly, there was evidence for Personality × Religious Capital interactions on depressive symptomology. Higher religious capital was related to lower depressive symptomology among persons with low conscientiousness or low openness to experience. However, religious capital was less related to depressive symptoms among those with high conscientiousness or high openness. This study reinforces the importance of examining the moderating effects of personality and perceived religious capital in understanding mental health outcomes. This information can be of use to practitioners in designing culturally appropriate interventions, including the use of capital from faith-based organizations.

scholarly journals Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among African American Men Across the Adult Lifecourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia V Wheaton ◽  
Courtney S Thomas ◽  
Carly Roman ◽  
Cleopatra M Abdou
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
African American Men

scholarly journals Cultural Mistrust and Counseling: A Review of Factors Impacting African Americans Males

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Nathalie Mizelle ◽  
James L. Maiden ◽  
Jody C. Grady ◽  
Delarious O. Stewart ◽  
Brian Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
African American Males ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Cultural Mistrust ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Factors

African American males are less likely to engage in mental health services. Racial discrimination, cultural mistrust, mental health disparities, and racial identity roles are significant factors impeding African American men from pursuing or continuing counseling. Unfortunately, counselors subliminally acknowledge the stereotypical labels ascribed to African American males lead to a poor or non-existing rapport, and tend to create solutions for the clients, disregarding their intrinsic motivation and autonomy. This conceptual article discussed racial discrimination, microaggression, and community ties as the barriers to counseling engagement among African American males. The article also highlighted the history of counseling African American males and the present urgency for a culturally sensitive model using the concepts of Motivational Interviewing for encouraging counseling engagement and autonomous resolution of ambivalence.

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