Black and White Adults' Racial and Gender Stereotypes of Psychopathology Symptoms in Black and White Children.

Autor: Kang S; Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, 1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL, USA. skang@luc.edu., Thiem KC; Department of Psychology, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 5000 Sait Paul Ave, Lincoln, NE, USA., Huff NR; Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, USA., Dixon JS; Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA., Harvey EA; Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Research on child and adolescent psychopathology [Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol] 2024 Jul; Vol. 52 (7), pp. 1023-1036. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 16.
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-024-01189-7
Abstrakt: Adults' judgments of children's behaviors play a critical role in assessment and treatment of childhood psychopathology. Judgments of children's psychiatric symptoms are likely influenced by racial biases, but little is known about the specific racial biases adults hold about children's psychiatric symptoms, which could play a critical role in childhood mental health disparities. This study examined one form of such biases, racial stereotypes, to determine if White and Black adults hold implicit and explicit racial stereotypes about common childhood psychopathology symptoms, and if these stereotypes vary by child gender and disorder type. Participants included 82 self-identified Black men, 84 Black woman, 1 Black transgender individual, 1 Black genderfluid individual, 81 White men, and 85 White women. Analyses of implicit stereotypes revealed that White adults associated psychopathology symptoms more strongly with Black children than did Black adults (p < .001). All adults held stronger implicit racial stereotypes for oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety, and depression than for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (p < .001). For explicit stereotypes, White adults generally associated psychopathology symptoms more with Black children than did Black adults but effects varied across child gender and disorder type. As the first study to examine racial and gender stereotypes across common childhood psychopathology symptoms, these findings point to a need for further investigation of the presence and impact of racial biases in the mental healthcare system for Black youth and to identify interventions to mitigate the impacts of racial biases to inform racial equity in mental healthcare in the United States.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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