Exploring fatigue severity and sensitivity as indirect effects of racial/ethnic discrimination on mental health among racial/ethnic minority young adults.

Autor: Robison, Jillian H., Smit, Tanya, Viana, Andres G., Derrick, Jaye L., Zvolensky, Michael J.
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Zdroj: Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior; Oct2024, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p308-321, 14p
Abstrakt: Background: Although 'racial battle fatigue' has been observed as an important construct in the context of racism and racial/ethnic discrimination, there has been little empirical work focused on fatigue-related processes in this context. The current study examined fatigue severity and sensitivity as simultaneous indirect explanatory constructs in terms of the relation between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and negative emotional health among racial/ethnic minority individuals. Method: Participants (N = 1,324) were racial/ethnic minority adults; Mage = 21.35; SD = 4.49 recruited from a large southwestern university between September 2019 through May 2021. Primarily they self-reported identifying as female (80.7%) and Non-Hispanic/Latino Asian (36.4%). Analyses: Three independent regression models were conducted to examine how the simultaneous role of fatigue sensitivity and fatigue severity mediate the association between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and three distinct facets of emotional functioning: general depression, anxious arousal, and emotional dysregulation. Results: Greater amounts of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination were related to increased levels of fatigue sensitivity and fatigue severity, which in turn, were related to more depression and emotion dysregulation; larger effect sizes were evident for fatigue sensitivity relative to fatigue severity. For anxious arousal, only fatigue sensitivity exerted a statistically significant indirect effect. All models adjusted for age, race, ethnicity, gender, level of education, and subjective social status. Conclusion: The present study offers novel empirical insight into the complexities by which perceived racial/ethnic discrimination is related to negative emotional functioning among racial/ethnic minority young adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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