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- Title
Ethnic Disparities in Trauma-Related Mental Illness: Is Ethnic Identity a Buffer?
- Authors
Townsend, Tiffany G.; Kaltman, Stacey; Saleem, Farzana; Coker-Appiah, Dionne S.; Green, Bonnie L.
- Abstract
Despite evidence that racial and ethnic characteristics influence the impact of traumatic exposure on psychological health, little is known about how race and ethnic identity can alter, and possibly protect against, the effects of trauma on the psychiatric diagnoses of women. Therefore, the present study examined the moderating role of race/ethnicity and ethnic identity in the link between trauma exposure and psychiatric diagnosis for African American and Caucasian college women. Participants were a sample of 242 women from the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States who self-identified as African American or Black (31%) and European American or Caucasian (69%; M age = 19.5 years). Interviews were conducted over the phone to screen for trauma, followed by longer in-person interviews. Each of the interviewers was supervised, and interviews were reviewed to control for quality. Regression analyses revealed that the number of traumatic events was a stronger predictor of lifetime psychiatric diagnoses for Caucasian women. In addition, ethnic identity served as a protective factor against trauma exposure among participants. The findings suggest that ethnic identity is a relevant buffer against potential psychiatric diagnoses as result of exposure to traumatic events for both Caucasian and African American women.
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (D.C.); PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis; INJURY complications; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS of variance; ATTITUDE (Psychology); BLACK people; CHI-squared test; COLLEGE students; STATISTICAL correlation; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; GROUP identity; HEALTH services accessibility; HEALTH status indicators; INTERVIEWING; LIFE change events; MEDICAL screening; CLASSIFICATION of mental disorders; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PARENTS; POST-traumatic stress disorder; QUESTIONNAIRES; RACE; RACISM; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH; SELF-evaluation; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); TELEPHONES; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; WHITE people; WOMEN'S health; DATA analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 11/12, p2164
- ISSN
0886-2605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0886260517701454