Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, 08628-0718, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2011 Apr;17(2):125-33. doi: 10.1037/a0023357.
Research suggests that perceived ethnic discrimination is associated with poor psychological and physiological health. Rumination, or perseverative thoughts about negative experiences, may constitute a maladaptive coping strategy that mediates the associations between perceived discrimination, emotional distress, and aggression. Our sample consisted of 170 ethnic minority and 134 White American participants. For ethnic minority participants, we found a pattern of correlations consistent with rumination partially mediating a causal link between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms, hostility, anger, and aggression. In White participants, by contrast, the significant associations between perceived discrimination and these indices of emotional and behavioral distress were not statistically mediated by rumination. We discuss possible theoretical and clinical implications of these results.
研究表明，感知到的种族歧视与心理健康和生理健康状况不佳有关。反刍思维，即对负面经历的反复思考，可能构成一种适应不良的应对策略，调节了感知歧视、情绪困扰和攻击行为之间的关系。我们的样本包括 170 名少数民族和 134 名美国白人参与者。对于少数民族参与者，我们发现了一种与反刍思维部分中介感知歧视与抑郁症状、敌意、愤怒和攻击行为之间因果关系的相关模式。相比之下，在白人参与者中，感知歧视与这些情绪和行为困扰指标之间的显著关联并没有被反刍思维在统计学上所中介。我们讨论了这些结果的可能的理论和临床意义。
