Depression and perceived stress as mediators between racial microaggressions and somatic symptoms in college students of color. | Zendy

Susan TorresHarding | Zendy; Lucas Torres | Zendy; Elaine Yeo | Zendy

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Depression and perceived stress as mediators between racial microaggressions and somatic symptoms in college students of color.

Author(s) -

Susan TorresHarding,

Lucas Torres,

Elaine Yeo

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

american journal of orthopsychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.959

H-Index - 93

eISSN - 1939-0025

pISSN - 0002-9432

DOI - 10.1037/ort0000408

Subject(s) - psycinfo , psychology , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , mental health , racism , stress (linguistics) , invisibility , psychiatry , medline , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , optics

The current study examined the ability of mental health indicators, namely depression and perceived stress, to mediate the relationship between racial microaggressions and health among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 467 college students of color. Consistent with what was hypothesized, the main findings revealed that depression and perceived stress mediated the relationships between types of racial microaggressions, specifically low-achieving, invisibility, and criminality, and somatic symptoms. The study results suggest that there may be multiple pathways by which specific racial microaggressions might be associated with psychological and somatic health indicators. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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