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- Title
Racism-related stress, Africultural coping, and religious problem-solving among African Americans.
- Authors
Lewis-Coles, Ma'at E Lyris; Constantine, Madonna G
- Abstract
This study explored the extent to which three types of racism-related stress (i.e., individual, institutional, and cultural) would predict the use of specific Africultural coping strategies (i.e., cognitive/emotional debriefing, spiritual-centered, collective, and ritual-centered coping) and religious problem-solving styles (i.e., self-directing, deferring, and collaborative) in a sample of 284 African American men and women. The authors found that higher institutional racism-related stress was associated with greater use of cognitive/emotional debriefing, spiritual-centered, and collective coping in African American women. Findings also indicated that higher cultural racism-related stress was predictive of lower use of self-directing religious problem-solving in African American women. Moreover, higher perceived cultural racism-related stress was related to greater use of collective coping strategies in African American men. Individual racism-related stress was not predictive of any forms of Africultural coping strategies or religious problem-solving. Implications of the findings are discussed.
- Publication
Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 3, p433
- ISSN
1099-9809
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/1099-9809.12.3.433