Black Young Adult Superwomen in the Face of Gendered Racial Microaggressions: Contextualizing Challenges With Acceptance and Avoidance and Emotional Eating.

Autor:	Volpe VV; Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA., Collins AN; Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA., Ross JM; Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA., Ellis KR; Schools of Social Work and Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA., Lewis JA; Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA., Ladd BA; Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA., Fitzpatrick SL; Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA.; Department of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University/Northwell Health, Uniondale, NY, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine [Ann Behav Med] 2024 Apr 11; Vol. 58 (5), pp. 305-313.
DOI:	10.1093/abm/kaae017
Abstrakt:	Background: Black young adult women (ages 18-35) are at disproportionate risk for obesity and emotional eating. Emotional eating interventions target psychological flexibility, such as reducing experiential avoidance and increasing acceptance of food-related thoughts. Yet Black women face gendered racism, and some endorse roles that reduce psychological flexibility, such as the superwoman schema role. Culturally centered stress and coping has often been overlooked, leading to an incomplete understanding of processes that engender emotional eating and the implications for appropriate and effective interventions for Black young adult women. Purpose: We investigated direct and indirect pathways of associations between stress from gendered racial microaggressions to emotional eating through the endorsement of superwoman schema and two aspects of psychological flexibility. Methods: Black young adult women (N = 504; Mage = 24.72; 75.2% African American; 98.4% cisgender) participated in an online survey wherein they reported demographics, stress from gendered racial microaggressions, superwoman schema, experiential avoidance, acceptance of food-related thoughts, and emotional eating. Path analysis was conducted to examine direct and indirect effects. Results: Results provided evidence for indirect associations between more stress from gendered racial microaggressions and more emotional eating. More stress was associated with greater endorsement of the superwoman schema which was associated with more experiential avoidance and less acceptance of food-related thoughts, which were each associated with more emotional eating. Conclusions: Endorsement of superwoman schema and concomitant avoidance and less acceptance may be one way that gendered racial stress propels emotional eating. Future research could test intervention components that disrupt this path. (© Society of Behavioral Medicine 2024. All rights reserved. For commercial re-use, please contact reprints@oup.com for reprints and translation rights for reprints. All other permissions can be obtained through our RightsLink service via the Permissions link on the article page on our site—for further information please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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