scholarly journals Cultural race-related stress and cannabis use among incarcerated African American men.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jardin N. Dogan ◽  
Shawndaya Thrasher ◽  
Shemeka Y. Thorpe ◽  
Candice Hargons ◽  
Danelle Stevens-Watkins
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Race Related Stress

Gender as a Moderator of the Relation between Race-Related Stress and Mental Health Symptoms for African Americans

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tawanda M. Greer ◽  
Adrian Laseter ◽  
David Asiamah
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
American Women ◽  
Stress Appraisals ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Race Related Stress

The present study tested gender as a moderator of the relationship between race-related stress and mental health symptoms among African American adults. Because African American women are exposed to stressors associated with race and gender, we hypothesized that African American women would have higher levels of race-related stress and more severe mental health outcomes related to experiences of race-related stress compared to African American men. Multivariate analyses revealed that African American men had higher stress appraisals for institutional racism than did women. No significant gender differences were found for cultural and individual racism. Moderated regression analyses revealed that increases in stress appraisals for individual racism were associated with increases in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms for African American women. Race-related stress had no significant effects on mental health symptoms for African American men. The findings suggest that gender is an important factor in determining the impact of race-related stress on mental health.

Promoting African American Activism: Experiences of Racism-Related Stress and Spirituality

2021 ◽  
pp. 009579842110349
Author(s):  
Tasha Prosper ◽  
George V. Gushue ◽  
Tina R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
African American Adults ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Race Related Stress ◽  
Shed Light

This study investigates how spirituality, psychological orientation to religion, and racism-related stress are associated with African American activism. Measures of Race-Related Stress, Quest Religious Orientation, Fundamentalism Religious Orientation, and Intrinsic Spirituality were used as exogenous variables. African American Activism was the endogenous variable. Results based on a sample of 148 self-identified African American adults revealed that quest religious orientation, intrinsic spirituality, and racism-related stress were positively associated with activism-related behaviors, while fundamentalist religious orientation was negatively but not significantly associated with activism-related behaviors. Paths of a multiple regression model were analyzed using Mplus version 8. Findings shed light on the interplay of spiritual coping resources and the personal impact of racism in mobilizing an activist response to oppression.

scholarly journals Active coping moderates associations among race-related stress, rumination, and depressive symptoms in emerging adult African American women

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1817-1835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Labarron K. Hill ◽  
Lori S. Hoggard
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
African American ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Active Coping ◽  
John Henryism ◽  
American Women ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Race Related Stress

AbstractCross-sectional and longitudinal research has shown that race-related stress is associated with increased depressive symptoms among racial/ethnic minorities. Rumination has long been considered a maladaptive self-regulatory response to race-related stress, and growing evidence suggests that it may be an important link in the relation between race-related stress and depression. More adaptive forms of self-regulation, such as active coping, may counteract the negative impact of rumination. We examined the influence of rumination on the relation between race-related stress and depressive symptoms in a sample (N= 69) of young adult (mean age = 20 ± 1.5 years) African American women. We also considered the possible moderating effects of John Henryism, a form of persistent and determined goal striving, and vagally mediated heart rate variability, a purported biomarker of coping. Anticipatory race-related stress was indirectly associated with depressive symptoms through rumination: estimate = 0.07, 95% confidence interval [0.01, 0.16]. Both John Henryism and vagally mediated heart rate variability moderated the relationship between race-related stress and rumination; however, only John Henryism reliably influenced the indirect association between race-related stress and depression through rumination. We discuss these findings in the context of growing research examining the interplay between cultural and biological factors in the risk for poorer mental health.

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