Journal article
Discrimination, Church Support, Personal Mastery, and Psychological Distress Among Black People in the United States
Innovation in aging, v 5(Suppl 1), pp 396-397
17 Dec 2021
Abstract
Objective: 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 everyday discrimination and psychological distress across three age groups of African American and Afro-Caribbean adults. Methods: 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 everyday discrimination, personal mastery, church-based social support, and psychological disorders. Results: Everyday discrimination was an independent predictor of psychiatric disorders across all groups. Group- and age-specific comparisons revealed significant differences in the experience of everyday discrimination and psychiatric disorders. Mastery was a partial mediator of the relationship between discimination and psychiatric disorder among Afro-Caribbeans while church support was a significant moderator only among the young and older African Americans. Implications: Together, our study findings provide useful first steps towards developing interventions to reduce the adverse psychological impacts of everyday 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
- Discrimination, Church Support, Personal Mastery, and Psychological Distress Among Black People in the United States
- Creators
- James Muruthi - University of OregonBertranna Muruthi - University of OregonReid Thompson Cañas - University of OregonLindsey Romero - University of OregonAbiola Taiwo - University of OregonPeter Ehlinger - University of Oregon
- Publication Details
- Innovation in aging, v 5(Suppl 1), pp 396-397
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Counseling and Family Therapy; Community Health and Prevention
- Other Identifier
- 991021894522704721