Sex Differences in the Impact of Racial Discrimination on Mental Health Among Black Americans
| Autor: | Tanisha I Burford, Risa N Long, Briana N. Brownlow, Effua E. Sosoo, LaBarron K. Hill, Lori S. Hoggard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Coping (psychology)
Mindfulness media_common.quotation_subject Racism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Chronic stress Minority Groups media_common Sex Characteristics Emotional eating Mental health United States 030227 psychiatry Black or African American Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Health Rumination medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Current psychiatry reports. 21(11) |
| ISSN: | 1535-1645 |
| Popis: | Greater racial discrimination is associated with poorer mental health among Black Americans; yet, there remains an incomplete understanding of sex differences in exposure to racial discrimination, and further, of how sex differences in coping with racial discrimination may heighten or diminish risk for poorer mental health. Black men may experience greater exposure to both structural and communal forms of racial discrimination, whereas Black women may face both a wider range of potential sources, as well as encounter greater variability in the subjective experience of racial discrimination. For both Black women and men, racial discrimination may be similarly associated with maladaptive coping strategies (i.e., emotional eating, rumination) that also are linked to poorer mental health; however, emerging findings suggest that mindfulness may partially buffer these deleterious effects. Overall, the recent literature reveals mixed findings with respect to sex differences in the experience and negative mental health impact of racial discrimination. Despite this heterogeneity, evidence documents sex differences in the settings, type, and qualitative experience of racial discrimination among Black Americans. Additionally, growing evidence indicating that racial discrimination is associated with physiological markers of stress reactivity and psychopathology risk further bolsters its characterization as a unique form of chronic stress among Black Americans and other minority groups in the USA. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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