Discrimination-related Anger, Religion, and Distress: Differences between African Americans and Caribbean Black Americans
| Autor: | Maxine Seaborn Thompson, Rachel N. Head |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Race ethnicity
Forgiveness 030505 public health media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Psychological distress 050109 social psychology Anger 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Distress 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology Association (psychology) Social psychology Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Society and Mental Health. 7:159-174 |
| ISSN: | 2156-8731 2156-8693 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2156869317711225 |
| Popis: | The Charleston Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) survivors’ forgiveness of the racially motivated shootings prompted our research of the association between religion, discrimination-related anger, and psychological distress among black Americans. Using the first representative national sample of Caribbean black Americans, the National Survey of American Life, we examine if discrimination-related anger produces more psychological distress for African Americans than Caribbean black Americans and if religious emotional support lowers distress from discrimination-related anger. Our findings show discrimination-related anger is associated with less distress for Caribbean black Americans than African Americans. Religious emotional support is associated with lower levels of distress and buffers the mental health of later generation Caribbean black Americans who report anger. African Americans reporting discrimination without anger show lower levels of psychological distress than their counterparts who experience anger. Thus, we have partial support that mercy towards one’s transgressor, illustrated by the Charleston Emanuel AMEC survivors, may benefit mental health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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