Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; email:
Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2023 May 9;19:361-379. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-072720-015146. Epub 2023 Feb 28.
Racism constitutes a significant risk to the mental health of African American children, adolescents, and emerging adults. This review evaluates recent literature examining ethnic and racial identity, ethnic-racial socialization, religiosity and spirituality, and family and parenting as racial, ethnic, and cultural resilience factors that shape the impact of racism on youth mental health. Representative studies, purported mechanisms, and critiques of prior research are presented for each factor. Recent studies of racism and resilience revisit foundational resilience factors from prior research while reflecting new and important advances (e.g., consideration of gender, cultural context, structural racism), providing important insights for the development of prevention and intervention efforts and policy that can alleviate mental health suffering and promote health and mental health equity for African American youth.
种族主义对非裔美国儿童、青少年和新兴成年人的心理健康构成重大风险。本综述评估了最近研究种族和民族认同、种族-民族社会化、宗教信仰和精神信仰以及家庭和育儿作为影响种族主义对青年心理健康的种族、民族和文化弹性因素的文献。针对每个因素，介绍了有代表性的研究、假定的机制和对先前研究的批评。种族主义和弹性的最新研究重新审视了先前研究中的基础弹性因素，同时反映了新的和重要的进展（例如，考虑到性别、文化背景、结构性种族主义），为预防和干预工作以及政策的制定提供了重要的见解，这些工作和政策可以减轻非裔美国青年的心理健康痛苦，并促进健康和心理健康公平。
