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{"title":"The impact of hurricane trauma and cultural stress on posttraumatic stress among hurricane Maria survivors relocated to the U.S. mainland.","authors":"James C Hodges, Mildred M Maldonado-Molina, Seth J Schwartz, María F García, María F Pineros-Leano, Melissa M Bates, Pablo Montero-Zamora, Ivonne Calderón, José Rodríguez, Christopher P Salas-Wright","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000623","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cdp0000623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Following Hurricane Maria, scores of Puerto Rican \"Maria migrants\" fled the island with thousands permanently resettling on the United States (U.S.) mainland. Emerging evidence suggests that many Maria migrants are exposed to migration-related cultural stressors, including discrimination, negative context of reception, and language stress. The present study examines the associations of premigration hurricane trauma and postmigration cultural stress with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity and positive PTSD screens.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 319 adult (age 18+, 71% female) Puerto Rican Hurricane Maria survivors on the U.S. mainland. Data were collected virtually between August 2020 and October 2021. Participants completed Spanish-language measures of hurricane-related trauma, postmigration cultural stress exposure, PTSD symptoms, and positive screens.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>One in five (20.5%) Maria migrants reported PTSD scores in the range indicating a likely PTSD diagnosis (i.e., positive screen of 50+). Both hurricane trauma and migration-related cultural stressors independently predicted posttraumatic stress and positive PTSD screens. Additionally, controlling for the effect of hurricane trauma, discrimination and language stress were strongly linked with PTSD. Further, hurricane trauma and cultural stressors interact such that cultural stress predicts PTSD-positive screens at low-to-moderate levels of hurricane trauma exposure but not at high-to-very-high levels.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings underscore the importance of providing mental health and other psychosocial supports to hurricane survivors and evacuees beyond the immediate aftermath of the disaster, and the need to consider both premigration trauma and postmigration experiences in terms of the mental health of crisis migrant populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"233-244"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11063122/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71427999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Viewing violent policing videos contributes to trauma symptoms for Black Americans.","authors":"Glenna L Read, Harry Y Yan, Rachel L Bailey","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000632","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cdp0000632","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This research investigates how watching videos of police violence and experiences with police contributes to health disparities in well-being that disproportionately negatively affect Black Americans.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A large-scale survey of Americans (<i>n</i> = 1,240; <i>n</i>_{Black American} = 286, <i>n</i>_White _American = 954) examined the impact of negative experiences with police and watching violent policing videos as distal (i.e., external) stressors that contribute to symptoms of trauma. The proximal (i.e., internal) stressor of worrying about being stereotyped as criminal by police was also examined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Those who identified as Black were more likely to report negative experiences with police, exposure to violent policing videos, and greater worry about being stereotyped as criminal by police than those who identified as White. The three stressors were, in turn, associated with experiencing trauma symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Exposure to violent policing videos is disproportionately associated with well-being for Black Americans, even when accounting for direct experiences with police. These findings demonstrate the importance of considering vicarious trauma in therapeutic settings and have implications for dissemination of these videos through media channels. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"256-265"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71428007","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":"Profiles of acculturative strategies and cultural stressors among Hispanic/Latinx college-attending emerging adults.","authors":"Alan Meca, Bethany Cruz, Jacqueline Lucero, Colleen Ward, Seth J Schwartz, Jaimee Stuart, Ágnes Szabó, Zenetta Hinojosa, Angela R Laird","doi":"10.1037/cdp0000625","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cdp0000625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The present study identified unique profiles of cultural stressors (i.e., bicultural stress, discrimination, and negative context of reception) and acculturative strategies (i.e., heritage practices, heritage identification, U.S. practices, and U.S. identification), in Hispanic/Latinx (HL) emerging adults. Additionally, we examined associations between positive and negative psychosocial functioning, with profiles of acculturative strategies and cultural stressors.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The present study utilized a baseline sample of 779 HL college students (75.8% female, <i>M</i>_age = 20.80 years, <i>SD</i> = 2.66) drawn from a daily diary study on acculturation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Latent profile analysis identified four distinct profiles. The Bicultural and Low Cultural Stressors (B-LowCS; 53.55%) was marked by strong heritage and U.S. cultural orientation and low levels across all cultural stressors. The Marginalization and High Acculturative Stressors (M-HighAS; 20.13%) was marked by weak heritage and U.S. cultural orientation, high acculturative stressors, and low discrimination. The third profile, the Heritage Rejection and Low Cultural Stressors (HR-LowCS; 16.05%) was marked by rejection of heritage culture and low cultural stressors. Finally, the Separation and High Cultural Stressors (S-HighCS; 10.26%) was marked by weak U.S. cultural orientation and high cultural stressors. Consistent with past research, the B-LowCS profile was marked by the highest level of positive psychosocial functioning and the lowest levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results of the present study highlight the usefulness of person-centered approaches for understanding the interplay between acculturative strategies and cultural stressors, and the implications of these distinct profiles on psychosocial functioning in HL emerging adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48151,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"245-255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71427998","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":"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}

{"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}

{"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}

{"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}

{"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}