Keum Brian TaeHyuk, Zhu Cathy, Kazmi Mahnoor, Pieterse Alex
Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College.
J Couns Psychol. 2025 Jul;72(4):368-379. doi: 10.1037/cou0000797. Epub 2025 Apr 28.
Antiracism advocacy has been identified as a culturally relevant form of self- and community care that allows racially/ethnically minoritized individuals to persist, heal, and resist systems of oppression in the United States. Despite the benefits, recent research has found that engaging in antiracism advocacy may be emotionally draining and exhausting. It is important to examine factors that can contextualize, explain, and address the stress of engaging in antiracism advocacy. Thus, we examined whether types of racial-ethnic socialization (cultural socialization, promotion of mistrust, preparation for bias, and silence about race) from parents about racism and race-related issues would moderate the relationship between antiracism advocacy and stress. We conducted latent moderated structural equation modeling to analyze online convenience data from 407 racially minoritized adults ( = 34.12; 40% Black, 23% Asian, 20% Latine, 9% multiracial, and 8% other). Engaging in institutional (but not individual) antiracism advocacy was significantly associated with psychological distress, and this association was exacerbated among those who received average to high levels of messages, reflecting promotion of mistrust, preparation for bias, and silence about race from their parents. Conversely, stress was not significant for those who received low levels of these three messages. Cultural socialization was not found to be a significant moderator. Implications include translating these findings into a more nuanced support system and care for those engaging in antiracism advocacy and incorporating the context of racial-ethnic socialization in understanding the nature of the associated stress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
反种族主义倡导已被视为一种与文化相关的自我和社区关怀形式，它能让在美国的种族/族裔少数群体得以坚持、治愈并抵抗压迫体系。尽管有这些益处，但最近的研究发现，参与反种族主义倡导可能会在情感上让人精疲力竭。审视能够将参与反种族主义倡导的压力置于情境中、加以解释并解决的因素很重要。因此，我们研究了父母关于种族主义和种族相关问题的种族-族裔社会化类型（文化社会化、促进不信任、为偏见做准备以及对种族保持沉默）是否会调节反种族主义倡导与压力之间的关系。我们进行了潜在调节结构方程建模，以分析来自407名种族少数群体成年人（平均年龄 = 34.12岁；40%为黑人，23%为亚洲人，20%为拉丁裔，9%为多种族，8%为其他种族）的在线便利样本数据。参与机构层面（而非个人层面）的反种族主义倡导与心理困扰显著相关，而且在那些从父母那里收到中等至高程度的反映促进不信任、为偏见做准备以及对种族保持沉默信息的人当中，这种关联会加剧。相反，对于那些收到低程度这三种信息的人来说，压力并不显著。未发现文化社会化是一个显著的调节因素。研究结果的意义包括将这些发现转化为一个更细致入微的支持系统，为参与反种族主义倡导的人提供关怀，并在理解相关压力的本质时纳入种族-族裔社会化的背景。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》(c) 2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
