MacNear Kameron A, Hunter Carla D
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2025 Jan;31(1):76-87. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000609. Epub 2023 Jun 22.
Race-related stress due to institutional racism is a pervasive reality for Black college students and contributes to poor mental health outcomes such as anxious arousal symptoms. One framework which may account for this association between chronic stress and anxious arousal symptoms is the reserve capacity model. This study investigated whether racial identity dimensions (racial centrality, public regard, private regard) and sense of belonging to the racial group contribute to this population's reserve capacity and buffer the association between institutional race-related stress and anxious arousal symptoms.
A sample of 134 Black college students completed racial identity, sense of belonging, and mental health questionnaires. These data were subjected to multiple regression analysis to assess the main and interactive effects of institutional race-related stress and dimensions of interest as predictors of anxious arousal symptoms.
The analysis indicated that higher levels of institutional race-related stress, racial centrality, and public regard were each associated with higher levels of anxious arousal while higher levels of private regard and sense of belonging were associated with lower levels of anxious arousal. Further investigation of interaction effects revealed that high levels of sense of belonging and low levels of public regard, respectively, buffered the association between institutional race-related stress and anxious arousal symptoms.
These findings illustrate how certain racial identity dimensions and sense of belonging contribute to the reserve capacity of Black students experiencing institutional race-related stress. Results are further discussed in the context of extant literature on Black racial identity and the university context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
由于制度性种族主义导致的与种族相关的压力是黑人大学生普遍面临的现实，并会导致诸如焦虑唤醒症状等不良心理健康结果。储备能力模型是一个可以解释慢性压力与焦虑唤醒症状之间这种关联的框架。本研究调查了种族认同维度（种族中心性、公众评价、个人评价）和对种族群体的归属感是否有助于该人群的储备能力，并缓冲制度性种族相关压力与焦虑唤醒症状之间的关联。
134名黑人大学生样本完成了种族认同、归属感和心理健康问卷。对这些数据进行多元回归分析，以评估制度性种族相关压力和感兴趣维度作为焦虑唤醒症状预测因素的主效应和交互效应。
分析表明，较高水平的制度性种族相关压力、种族中心性和公众评价均与较高水平的焦虑唤醒相关，而较高水平的个人评价和归属感则与较低水平的焦虑唤醒相关。对交互效应的进一步调查显示，高水平的归属感和低水平的公众评价分别缓冲了制度性种族相关压力与焦虑唤醒症状之间的关联。
这些发现说明了某些种族认同维度和归属感如何有助于经历制度性种族相关压力的黑人学生的储备能力。将结合关于黑人种族认同和大学环境的现有文献进一步讨论研究结果。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
