Journal article
Daily discrimination, church support, personal mastery, and psychological distress in black people in the United States
Ethnicity & health, v 28(4), pp 503-521
19 May 2023
PMID: 35733281
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Abstract
This study used the stress process model to test the mediating effects of personal mastery and moderating effects of church-based social support on the relationship between daily discrimination and psychological distress across three age groups of African American and Afro-Caribbean adults.
Using a national sample of 5008 African Americans and Afro-Caribbean adults from the National Survey of American Life Study, this study employs structural equation modeling to investigate the relationships between daily discrimination, personal mastery, church-based social support, and psychological distress.
Daily discrimination was an independent predictor of psychological distress across all groups. Group- and age-specific comparisons revealed significant differences in the experience of daily discrimination and psychological distress. Mastery was a partial mediator of the relationship between discrimination and psychological distress among Afro-Caribbeans while church support was a significant moderator only among the young and older African Americans.
Together, our study findings provide useful first steps towards developing interventions to reduce the adverse psychological impacts of daily discrimination on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans. Intervention efforts such as individual psychotherapy aimed to improve Afro-Caribbean individuals' sense of mastery would be a partial solution to alleviating the adverse effects of discrimination on their psychological health.
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- Title
- Daily discrimination, church support, personal mastery, and psychological distress in black people in the United States
- Creators
- James R. Muruthi - University of OregonBertranna A. Muruthi - University of OregonReid E. Thompson Cañas - University of OregonLindsey Romero - University of OregonAbiola Taiwo - University of OregonPeter P. Ehlinger - University of Oregon
- Publication Details
- Ethnicity & health, v 28(4), pp 503-521
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Counseling and Family Therapy; Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000814679200001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85132808017
- Other Identifier
- 991021866417504721
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