Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University at New York.
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Jan;30(1):83-94. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000549. Epub 2022 May 5.
Black and Asian American emerging adults are at higher risk of experiencing racial/ethnic discrimination and related distress. Racial/ethnic discrimination may increase vulnerability for depressive symptoms by diminishing individuals' positive self-concept. While low global self-esteem has been noted as a crucial process linking discrimination and depressive symptoms, it is unclear if it plays a unique role beyond other relevant aspects of one's self-concept: racial/ethnic private regard and centrality. Moreover, although different racial/ethnic groups are known to experience discrimination in distinctive ways, little is known about how relative processes of self-esteem and racial/ethnic identity may differ across these groups. We investigated the generalizability and specificity of discrimination to distress linkages across Asian and Black Americans.
Undergraduate Black ( = 109) and Asian American ( = 90) students self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination, depressive symptoms, and self-concept.
Global self-esteem indirectly linked the association between discrimination and depressive symptoms among Black Americans beyond the effects of racial/ethnic identity. Only among Black Americans, discrimination was associated with lower private regard.
Finding highlight group-specific processes underlying Black and Asian Americans' experiences of discrimination and depressive symptoms. Findings also demonstrate shared processes of discrimination-depressive symptoms linkage across groups and underscore the need to address the pervasive issues of racism and discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
黑人和亚裔美国新兴成年人经历种族/民族歧视和相关困扰的风险更高。种族/民族歧视可能通过削弱个体的积极自我概念，增加患抑郁症状的脆弱性。虽然低总体自尊已被认为是将歧视与抑郁症状联系起来的关键过程，但尚不清楚它是否在个体自我概念的其他相关方面（种族/民族私人看法和核心）之外具有独特作用。此外，尽管不同的种族/民族群体以不同的方式经历歧视，但对于这些群体的自尊和种族/民族认同的相对过程如何不同，知之甚少。我们研究了跨亚裔和非裔美国人的歧视与困扰联系的普遍性和特异性。
本科黑人和亚裔美国大学生（黑人组=109，亚裔组=90）自我报告了种族/民族歧视、抑郁症状和自我概念。
在非裔美国人中，总体自尊通过种族/民族认同的影响，间接关联了歧视与抑郁症状之间的联系。只有在非裔美国人中，歧视与私人看法降低有关。
研究结果强调了黑人和亚裔美国人经历歧视和抑郁症状的群体特异性过程。研究结果还表明，跨群体存在歧视与抑郁症状联系的共享过程，并强调需要解决普遍存在的种族主义和歧视问题。
