Exploring the role of ethnic identity and coping on depressive symptoms in Black and Latinx college students after discrimination.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 ETHNIC STUDIES

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI:10.1037/cdp0000741

Susan Torres-Harding, Lauryn D Bergert, Jessica Paxton, Adrian Thomas

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Abstract

Objectives: This study examines the role of ethnic identity as potentially mediating or moderating the relationship between exposure to discrimination and depressive symptoms, and whether the inclusion of other variables, including racial group membership and discrimination-focused coping, might better explain the role of ethnic identity in the relationship between discrimination and depressive symptoms.

Method: We administered measures of ethnic discrimination, multigroup ethnic identity, coping with discrimination, and depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms. Our sample included 178 undergraduate and graduate students from a midsize private Midwestern institution who identified as Black/African American or Latino/Hispanic/Latinx/Latiné.

Results: The results indicated that there was evidence for a moderated mediation through detachment coping. Latinx participants showed that having a strong ethnic identity commitment was associated with less detachment coping and less depressive symptoms at high levels of discrimination, but not at low levels of discrimination. For Black participants, having a strong ethnic identity commitment was associated with less depressive symptoms and less detachment coping at lower levels of discrimination, but not at higher levels of discrimination.

Conclusion: This study provides evidence of the role of ethnic identity as a protective factor after experiencing discrimination and shows that the protective role varies between different racial and ethnic groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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探讨种族认同和应对在黑人和拉丁裔大学生歧视后抑郁症状中的作用。

目的：本研究探讨了种族认同在歧视与抑郁症状之间的潜在中介或调节作用，以及是否包括其他变量，包括种族群体成员和以歧视为中心的应对，可能更好地解释种族认同在歧视与抑郁症状之间的关系中的作用。方法：采用民族歧视、多群体民族认同、应对歧视、抑郁、焦虑和应激症状等措施。我们的样本包括178名本科生和研究生，他们来自中西部一所中等规模的私立机构，他们被认定为黑人/非裔美国人或拉丁裔/西班牙裔/拉丁裔/拉丁裔。结果：研究结果表明，超然应对对心理健康有调节作用。拉丁裔参与者表明，在高度歧视的情况下，拥有强烈的种族认同承诺与较少的超然应对和较少的抑郁症状有关，但在低水平歧视的情况下则没有。对于黑人参与者来说，拥有强烈的种族认同承诺与较低程度歧视时较少的抑郁症状和较少的超然应对有关，但与较高程度歧视时无关。结论：本研究提供了种族认同在经历歧视后作为保护因素的证据，并表明不同种族和民族的保护作用是不同的。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Multiple-

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5.90

自引率

6.10%

发文量

101

期刊介绍： Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology seeks to publish theoretical, conceptual, research, and case study articles that promote the development of knowledge and understanding, application of psychological principles, and scholarly analysis of social–political forces affecting racial and ethnic minorities.