Undeniable Racism: The Role of Coping, Racial Identity, and Race-related Stress among African American College Students
In this study 89 African American college students completed measures to assess racial centrality, denial coping, religious coping, individual, institutional, and cultural race-related stress. Regression analyses revealed that racial centrality is a significant predictor of individual, institutional, and cultural race-related stress. In addition, denial coping was found to be a significant predictor of individual and cultural race-related stress. We found gender differences in institutional race-related stress, with African American males reporting significantly greater experiences than African American females. In addition, denial coping moderated the associations between gender and institutional race-related stress such that African American males who engaged in greater denial coping were more likely to report greater levels of institutional race-related stress in comparison to African American females. Implications for further research on this topic and for various intervention programs geared to assist African American college students will be discussed.
School:
University of Michigan
Department:
Psychology
Research Advisor:
Carla D. Hunter
Department of Research Advisor:
Psychology
Year of Publication:
2007