Sean Darling-Hammond, Ángela Gutiérrez, Cindy Le, Christy Bryana Atangana, Courtney Thomas Tobin
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Racial centrality served as a buffer, negatively moderating the relationship between chronic stress and suicide.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings underscore chronic stress as a critical, understudied risk factor for Black suicide outcomes and highlight racial centrality as a culturally meaningful protective factor with implications for identity-affirming prevention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51038,"journal":{"name":"Ethnicity & Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Rooted in identity: racial centrality buffers the effects of chronic stress on suicide outcomes among Black Americans.\",\"authors\":\"Sean Darling-Hammond, Ángela Gutiérrez, Cindy Le, Christy Bryana Atangana, Courtney Thomas Tobin\",\"doi\":\"10.1080/13557858.2025.2552210\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Black Americans have experienced a rapid rise in suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts, yet little research has examined whether chronic stress, a well-established driver of mental health disparities, contributes to these suicide outcomes. 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Rooted in identity: racial centrality buffers the effects of chronic stress on suicide outcomes among Black Americans.
Objectives: Black Americans have experienced a rapid rise in suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts, yet little research has examined whether chronic stress, a well-established driver of mental health disparities, contributes to these suicide outcomes. Chronic stress refers to the persistent, cumulative burdens of daily life shaped by structural racism, making it particularly harmful for Black Americans. Social stress theory emphasizes the importance of psychosocial resources in mitigating the effects of chronic stress. Racial centrality is a culturally grounded measure of racial identity that is related to myriad mental health outcomes. We review data from 627 Black adults in the Nashville Stress and Health Study to ascertain relationships between chronic stress, racial centrality, and suicide outcomes among Black Americans and evaluate whether racial centrality might serve as a buffer against suicide.
Design: An analysis of variance test (ANOVA) explored whether racial centrality was related to chronic stress. Weighted logistic regressions predicted suicide outcomes as a function of chronic stress, racial centrality, and the interaction of the two.
Results: Racial centrality was negatively associated with chronic stress. Suicide outcomes were predicted by chronic stress. Racial centrality served as a buffer, negatively moderating the relationship between chronic stress and suicide.
Conclusion: These findings underscore chronic stress as a critical, understudied risk factor for Black suicide outcomes and highlight racial centrality as a culturally meaningful protective factor with implications for identity-affirming prevention strategies.
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Ethnicity & Health
is an international academic journal designed to meet the world-wide interest in the health of ethnic groups. It embraces original papers from the full range of disciplines concerned with investigating the relationship between ’ethnicity’ and ’health’ (including medicine and nursing, public health, epidemiology, social sciences, population sciences, and statistics). The journal also covers issues of culture, religion, gender, class, migration, lifestyle and racism, in so far as they relate to health and its anthropological and social aspects.