Racial Discrimination as Race-Based Trauma, Coping Strategies, and Dissociative Symptoms Among Emerging Adults
Racial Discrimination as Race-Based Trauma, Coping Strategies, and Dissociative Symptoms Among Emerging Adults
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DOI：
10.1037/tra0000125
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Anglin, Deidre M.
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作者：
Polanco-Roman, Lillian;Danies, Ashley;Anglin, Deidre M.
目的：基于种族的创伤应激理论(卡特，2007)表明，一些种族和少数民族个体将种族歧视视为心理创伤，因为它可能会引起类似于创伤后应激的反应。在目前的研究中，我们通过确定种族歧视和分离之间的关系进一步研究了这一点，这是对创伤暴露的一种常见反应。此外，我们还检查了专门用于应对种族歧视的积极应对策略是否与较少分离的症状学有关。方法：以种族和少数民族为主的样本(N=743)来自美国东北部的一所公立大学，年龄在18-29岁之间，他们完成了一系列关于种族歧视、对种族歧视的反应、创伤生活事件和分离症状的自我报告测量。结果：在调整了演示图片和其他创伤性生活事件的回归分析中，种族歧视频率与分离性症状呈正相关。此外，针对种族歧视采取更积极的应对策略与分离症状呈负相关。结论：经历种族歧视的新出现的少数族裔成年人，可能是创伤性的，可能更容易出现分离症状。然而，应对种族歧视的不同策略可能会对分离的风险产生不同的影响。
Objective: The race-based traumatic stress theory (Carter, 2007) suggests that some racial-and ethnic-minority individuals experience racial discrimination as psychological trauma, as it may elicit a response comparable to posttraumatic stress. In the present study, we examined this further by determining the relation between racial discrimination and dissociation, a common response to trauma exposure. Further, we examined whether active coping strategies specifically employed to cope with racial discrimination related to less dissociative symptomatology. Method: The predominant racial-and ethnic-minority sample (N = 743) of emerging adults, ages 18-29, recruited from a public university in northeastern United States completed a battery of self-report measures on racial discrimination, responses to racial discrimination, traumatic life events, and dissociative symptoms. Results: Frequency of racial discrimination was positively associated with dissociative symptoms in regression analyses adjusted for demo-graphics and other traumatic life events. In addition, more active coping strategies in response to racial discrimination were negatively associated with dissociative symptoms. Conclusion: Racial-and ethnic-minority emerging adults who experience racial discrimination, possibly as traumatic, may be more vulnerable to dissociative symptoms. However, different strategies of coping with racial discrimination may differentially impact risk for dissociation.