{"title":"Relationship between social support and substance use among American Indian people with a self-identified substance use problem.","authors":"Morgan E Neavill, Peter J Helm, Monica C Skewes","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000743","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The present study sought to understand the relationship between social support and substance use among American Indian adults with substance use disorder.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>As part of a larger community-based participatory research project, we conducted a cross-sectional survey with 198 tribal members from a rural reservation community who self-identified as having a substance use problem. We examined associations between participant substance use and social network characteristics assessed using a modified version of the Important People Drug and Alcohol interview.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Variables associated with greater drug and alcohol abstinence among participants included living in larger household, having a greater percentage of the household that is sober, not having attended boarding school, having a larger percentage of the social network that does not accept one's substance use, having a smaller percentage of the social network rated as moderate or heavy substance users, and having a smaller percentage of the social network that uses substances frequently. The size, general supportiveness, and importance of the social network were not significantly associated with participant substance use.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Network substance use behavior was a better predictor of participant substance use outcomes than general support, substance-specific support, or support for recovery/treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amber J Schmidt, Vivian M Gonzalez, Monica C Skewes
{"title":"Attitudes regarding harm-reduction and abstinence intervention strategies for alcohol problems among American Indian/Alaska Native college students.","authors":"Amber J Schmidt, Vivian M Gonzalez, Monica C Skewes","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Culture may influence attitudes toward alcohol intervention strategies among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals. This study examined AI/AN college students' attitudes regarding harm-reduction (HR) and abstinence-only (AO) intervention strategies to overcome problems with alcohol, including perceived social support for using these strategies.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were AI/AN college students who consumed alcohol (<i>N</i> = 159) and completed a single in-person data collection session. Separate analyses of covariance were conducted to examine perceived effectiveness and self-efficacy for the intervention strategies and perceived support of friends and family.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No difference in perceived effectiveness was found, while self-efficacy was higher for HR than AO for both hazardously and nonhazardously drinking groups. Likewise, participants perceived greater social support for HR than AO strategies, even from friends or family who are abstinent, and no differences were found between hazardous and nonhazardous drinking groups in perceived support for these interventions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AI/AN students who drink perceived no difference in effectiveness between HR and AO strategies and were more confident in their abilities to utilize HR strategies over AO. Regardless of drinking status, participants perceived they would have greater social support for HR compared with AO strategies from friends and family. The findings indicate that HR intervention strategies may be a socially valid intervention option for AI/AN college students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yara Mekawi, Lauren M Hall, Margaret Powers, Shequanna Belizaire, Natalie N Watson-Singleton
{"title":"Does exposure to race-related stress lead to attention biases? Examining the moderating roles of anxiety and racial identity among Black adults.","authors":"Yara Mekawi, Lauren M Hall, Margaret Powers, Shequanna Belizaire, Natalie N Watson-Singleton","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000742","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Racism plays a deleterious role in Black Americans' mental health, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which racism may confer risk to mental health outcomes. One hypothesized yet untested mechanism through which racism may lead to negative mental health is increased attention bias to threat. Even less is known about individual difference factors that may exacerbate or ameliorate racism's effects, such as anxiety or racial identity.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>To address this gap in the literature, 214 Black adults were recruited online for an experimental study. Participants were randomly assigned to one (out of two) stress conditions: experimental, where they reflected on a racism experience (<i>n</i> = 102), or control, where they reflected on a nonracism stressor (<i>n</i> = 112). They also completed measures of general anxiety and racial centrality. Attention bias to threat was assessed using a dot-probe task, which compares reaction time to threat (i.e., angry) versus neutral faces.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Although there was no overarching effect of racism exposure on general or Black-specific attention bias, there was a significant effect of racism on attention bias toward White angry faces such that those in the racism condition demonstrated lower bias than those in the control stress condition (<i>t</i> = -2.06, <i>p</i> = .04). Importantly, the effect of the racism manipulation depended on participants' level of anxiety and racial centrality.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These unexpected results suggest that exposure to racism may lead to an avoidant attentional bias away from White threatening faces but that this process may be contingent on trait anxiety and racial centrality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O M Benson, D N Clement, V N Oliphant, L R Wingate
{"title":"Gendered racial microaggressions and suicidality in Black women: Hope as a moderator.","authors":"O M Benson, D N Clement, V N Oliphant, L R Wingate","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000744","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Death by suicide is on the rise at an alarming rate for Black girls and women in the United States (Curtin & Hedegaard, 2019; Curtin et al., 2016). Despite the rise in suicide risk among this population, there is sparse research on the risk and protective factors for suicidality in Black women, and as a result, the population continues to remain underrepresented in the literature. The present study examined gendered racial microaggressions as a risk factor for suicide and investigated hope as a probable protective factor that may mitigate the impact of gendered racial microaggressions on suicide ideation in Black women.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants (<i>N</i> = 270) who identified as African American/Black women were recruited for the study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A moderation analysis indicated a significant moderation effect of hope on the relationship between gendered racial microaggressions and suicide ideation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The present study contributes to the advancement of suicide research by examining suicide risk in the context of Black women's unique experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the association between perceived racism and sleep quality: The mediating role of rumination.","authors":"Clysha S Whitlow, Philip Zendels, Andrew D Case","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Sleep problems and disorders are associated with various health problems, such as heart disease and cancer. Black Americans report higher rates of poor sleep quality and health disorders than other racial and ethnic groups. Research suggests perceived racism can influence sleep difficulties; however, the mechanisms connecting racism to sleep difficulties are not fully understood. Rumination, a form of perseverative cognition in which individuals repeatedly focus on negative emotions and their causes and consequences, can affect sleep quality. This cross-sectional study examined whether brooding and reflection rumination explained the relation between perceived racism and sleep quality among Black American college students.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants (<i>n</i> = 215), ranging in age from 18 to 53, completed The Schedule of Stressful Racist Events, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and Ruminative Responses Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that perceived racism predicted both forms of rumination. Notably, however, only the brooding form of rumination was significantly associated with sleep quality, with higher levels predicting poorer sleep quality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings suggest that a particular form of rumination, when used as a coping response in the context of racism, may be associated with sleep difficulties. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle N Martinez, Elijah R Murphy, Matthew W Gallagher, Steven P Woods, Paola Arboleda-Rios, Luis M Falcón, Luis D Medina
{"title":"The role of stress, perceived discrimination, and skin tone on cognitive performance in Puerto Rican adults.","authors":"Michelle N Martinez, Elijah R Murphy, Matthew W Gallagher, Steven P Woods, Paola Arboleda-Rios, Luis M Falcón, Luis D Medina","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000740","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study aimed to examine the associations between cognition, skin tone, and stress in a heterogeneous sample of Puerto Rican adults.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 1,502 Puerto Ricans from the first wave of the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the associations between skin tone groups, stressful life events (i.e., perceived discrimination and number of adverse life events), perceived stress, allostatic load, and cognition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The model fit examining the relationship between stress and cognition was excellent even after introducing covariates. When considering skin tone, model fit was also acceptable. Greater allostatic load predicted lower levels of cognition in the overall sample and in individuals with darker skin tones. Higher levels of perceived stress predicted lower levels of cognition in the overall sample and all skin tone groups except in individuals with white skin tones. Stressful events significantly predicted cognition in the overall sample.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results provide evidence of an interaction in which the relationship between stress and cognition differs across skin tone groups, even within an ethnic group. This suggests a modifying role of intersecting identities (e.g., ethnicity by skin tone) in understanding health outcomes. Additional research with a robust, diverse sample of Hispanic/Latin Americans is needed to continue examining the heterogeneity of heritage groups across various health outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban marginalization experiences and social etiology of Indigenous migrants' sleep disturbance.","authors":"Jen-Hao Chen","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000733","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>In recent decades, many Indigenous people in Taiwan have left their tribes and migrated to cities. However, there has been limited research focused on understanding the psychological processes that link these migrants' experiences in urban environments and their sleep, a crucial but overlooked aspect of health.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study conducted and qualitatively analyzed 40 interviews with urban Indigenous migrants aged 25-60 to examine how everyday life experiences in cities shape their sleep.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The analysis finds that urban Indigenous migrants have a high prevalence of sleep disturbance that is attributable to three psychosocial mechanisms that result from experiences of marginalization in their urban lives: (a) enduring stress and unstable schedules in the journey toward better opportunities; (b) feeling marginalized from the ways and cultural logic of urban life that normalizes a fast pace and prioritizes efficiency; and (c) having limited psychosocial resources from an urban social network that is weaker and creates alienation. These psychosocial mechanisms fundamentally interfered with urban Indigenous migrants' sleep time, generated heightened stress, and lowered their resilience during difficult times, which in turn increased the likelihood of sleep disturbance.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings (a) document the underlying psychosocial processes of marginalization experiences that cause sleep disturbance among urban Indigenous migrants in Taiwan and (b) contribute empirical evidence from a non-Western society to the global literature on Indigenous health and psychology and to the literature on the psychosocial studies of minority well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amber J Johnson, Jaylin Bell, Victoria A Davis, Tobechi Udeh, Adriana Ochoa
{"title":"Black women's experiences of racialized shame.","authors":"Amber J Johnson, Jaylin Bell, Victoria A Davis, Tobechi Udeh, Adriana Ochoa","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000739","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Black women may be particularly vulnerable to negative shame experiences, shaped by racism and sexism. Yet, the breadth of research that examines shame experiences from Black women's perspective is limited. This study sought to describe the sociocultural context in which Black women experience shame in America.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Forty Black women (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 41 years) across the United States participated in a narrative study. A thematic analysis focused on understanding shame cues in participant narratives.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>One major theme of racialized shame experience was revealed. Sociocultural contexts of these experiences were identified including Black women's state of invisibility; experiences in the workplace and academia; treatment related to skin color, hair, and body; and romantic relationship expectations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings warrant further attention to the consequence of Black women's shame experiences. Implications for addressing shame and well-being for Black women are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie H Yu, Blanche Wright, Dylan Aguirre, Yazmin Meza Lazaro, Tamar Kodish, Anna S Lau
{"title":"Determinants of stigma against help-seeking in schools and help-seeking behaviors of Asian American and Latinx youth experiencing internalizing problems.","authors":"Stephanie H Yu, Blanche Wright, Dylan Aguirre, Yazmin Meza Lazaro, Tamar Kodish, Anna S Lau","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000736","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study examined individual and school factors related to stigma against seeking mental health support among Asian American and Latinx youth and tested whether stigma moderated the link between internalizing symptoms and help-seeking behaviors across different sources of support.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were drawn from a cross-sectional, routine school-based mental health needs assessment. The sample included 1,371 Asian American and 801 Latinx students in Grades 4-12 (<i>M</i><sub>Grade</sub> = 8.52; 51.10% male, 45.72% female, 3.18% prefer not to say). Help-seeking from adults, peers, and professionals was assessed. Multilevel linear and moderated multinomial logistic regression analyses were conducted accounting for nesting within schools.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results revealed that younger students, Asian American youth (compared to Latinx youth), students who preferred not to share their gender (compared to male students), and youth experiencing internalizing symptoms endorsed higher stigma against help-seeking. Stigma significantly moderated the relationship between internalizing symptoms and help-seeking for both Asian American and Latinx youth for different sources of support. Results indicated that stigma was a barrier for Asian American youth with internalizing symptoms when seeking support from adults, but not from peers or formal services. Meanwhile, stigma was a barrier for Latinx youth seeking support from peers and formal services, but not from adults.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings highlight that high stigma is a barrier to seeking help among Asian American and Latinx youth experiencing internalizing symptoms across different sources of support. Findings support the need for stigma reduction interventions, with attention to structural influences on stigma and cultural factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143025103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginette Sims, Maryam Kia-Keating, Osiris Diego Hal
{"title":"Racial trauma and resilience in the aftermath of media exposure of fatal police violence toward Black Americans: Consequences and collective burden.","authors":"Ginette Sims, Maryam Kia-Keating, Osiris Diego Hal","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000730","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Media exposure to extreme police violence is an increasingly widespread problem that has negative consequences for the mental health of viewers. Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by police violence and its negative consequences, but little is understood from their own perspectives as media viewers.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The present study uses a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to better understand Black American experiences of witnessing lethal police violence toward Black Americans via social media. Participants with exposure to at least one of four viral videos of fatal police encounters with Black Americans were recruited to participate in in-depth interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Key themes emerged related to negative emotional sequelae, including grief, anxious feelings, traumatization, hopelessness, and active efforts to draw on their resilience. Resilience was associated with racial/ethnic pride, sense of community, engagement in activism, and active coping.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Future research is needed to explicate the role of media violence in racial trauma for Black Americans, as well as the collective burden and complex costs this violence and its media accessibility have on society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}