Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984211069064
Rachel L Boutté, C Blair Burnette, Suzanne E Mazzeo
Multiple studies indicate Black American women have disproportionately higher rates of obesity compared with other groups in United States. Although body image is associated with obesity, this relation is understudied among Black women. The purpose of the current study was to (1) examine the relations among body appreciation, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating; (2) assess body appreciation as a mediator of the relation between body mass index (BMI) and disordered eating, and (3) explore ethnic identity as a moderator in this association. Participants were 191 Black women recruited from a mid-Atlantic university. Participants' mean age was 19.16 years (SD = 1.95). Body appreciation partially mediated the relation between BMI and disordered eating behaviors and attitudes, such that women with higher BMIs reported lower body appreciation, which was associated with greater disordered eating symptoms. Ethnic identity was not a significant moderator of the association between BMI and body appreciation. Results support screening Black women with higher BMIs for disordered eating symptomatology and suggest it might be helpful to include body appreciation in interventions for Black women.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1177/00957984221098122
LaJae M. Coleman-Kirumba, M. Cornish, Aleah J. Horton, Jordan C. Alvarez
Black adults in the United States seek mental healthcare at a lesser rate than White adults, attributed in part to the stigma of seeking psychological help. Black men in need of mental health care face a double barrier associated with the intersection of their race and gender, as men report more negative attitudes toward help-seeking than do women. To understand help-seeking attitudes among Black men, this study examined the direct effects of traditional masculinity, traditional/Black masculinity, and Black masculinity on public stigma of help-seeking as well as the indirect effects on self-stigma of help-seeking and psychological help-seeking attitudes among a sample of Black men in the United States (N = 160). Results demonstrated that Black masculinity and traditional/Black masculinity predicted greater public stigma, which predicted greater self-stigma and in turn less positive psychological help-seeking attitudes. This study also found an unexpected negative relationship between traditional masculinity and public stigma and an indirect positive effect on psychological help-seeking attitudes. Results support tailored stigma-reduction interventions for the Black community.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-05DOI: 10.1177/00957984221096211
Lisa F. Platt, Sandra Fanning
Being a “Strong Black Woman” (SBW) is a frequent cultural demand for Black Women. The physical and emotional disadvantages of this persistent racial gender role expectation are notable. The purpose of the current exploratory study was to (1) confirm a link between endorsement of the SBW schema and self-reported perceived stress and (2) investigate the potential demographic features that predict the level of endorsement of the SBW schema. A community sample of n = 185 Black women completed an online survey containing the Giscombé Superwoman Schema Questionnaire (Woods-Giscombé et al., 2019), the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (Cohen & Williamson, 1988), and a demographic questionnaire. The results indicated that more endorsement of SBW ideals uniquely predicted greater perceived stress. Also, only the demographic variables of age and number of children were predictors of SBW endorsement. Endorsement of SBW expectations did not vary across the other demographic variables indicating the SBW schema was prominent for most participants in the sample.
“坚强的黑人女性”(SBW)是对黑人女性的一种频繁的文化需求。这种持久的种族性别角色期望在身体和情感上的劣势是显而易见的。本探索性研究的目的是:(1)证实认同小户型工作模式与自我报告的感知压力之间的联系;(2)调查预测认同小户型工作模式水平的潜在人口统计学特征。一项由185名黑人女性组成的社区样本完成了一项在线调查，其中包括giscomb女超人图式问卷(woods - giscomb et al.， 2019)、感知压力量表-10 (Cohen & Williamson, 1988)和人口统计问卷。结果表明，对SBW理想的更多认可独特地预测了更大的感知压力。此外，只有年龄和儿童数量的人口统计变量是SBW认可的预测因子。对SBW期望的认可在其他人口统计变量中没有变化，这表明SBW模式对样本中的大多数参与者来说是突出的。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984221096212
H. Neville, K. Cokley
“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”—Ella Baker (Butler, 2011, p. 1) The dawn of a new decade (2020) was a watershed moment in Black activism in the United States. The disproportionate deaths of Black/African Americans from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and police killings during a global health pandemic exposed anti-Black racial oppression. By May 2020, data emerged about the depths of the COVID-19 racial inequalities. For example, the New York Times ran articles describing emerging findings suggesting that Black Americans, compared to other racial and ethnic groups, were entering hospitals with more severe symptoms and dire
{"title":"Introduction to Special Issue on the Psychology of Black Activism: The Psychology of Black Activism in the 21st Century","authors":"H. Neville, K. Cokley","doi":"10.1177/00957984221096212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984221096212","url":null,"abstract":"“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”—Ella Baker (Butler, 2011, p. 1) The dawn of a new decade (2020) was a watershed moment in Black activism in the United States. The disproportionate deaths of Black/African Americans from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and police killings during a global health pandemic exposed anti-Black racial oppression. By May 2020, data emerged about the depths of the COVID-19 racial inequalities. For example, the New York Times ran articles describing emerging findings suggesting that Black Americans, compared to other racial and ethnic groups, were entering hospitals with more severe symptoms and dire","PeriodicalId":47588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Black Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88073456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984211016943
Seanna C. Leath, Paris Ball, Lauren C. Mims, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Taina B. Quiles
Black women have played an integral role in Black liberation struggles. Yet there is little psychological scholarship on Black women’s contribution to social justice movements, particularly beyond conventional forms of activism, such as protesting and voting. To address this gap, the current study draws on Black feminist epistemology to present a multidimensional framework of Black college women’s sociopolitical development. Using consensual qualitative research methods, we analyzed semistructured interview data from 65 Black college women (18-24 years) to explore their understandings of agency, civic engagement, and resistance. Eight themes emerged— gaining knowledge, self-advocacy, sisterhood, self-love, educating others, collective organizing and leadership, community care, and career aspirations. Our results situate Black college women’s activism within a sociohistorical framework of Black feminist organizing and underscore the overlapping roles of self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, and institutional knowledge. The authors discuss how the contemporary racial and sociopolitical climate in the United States informed the participants’ social justice orientation and how their involvement and investment in the Black community helped the participants reframe racial violence and oppression into narratives of resistance and healing.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984211018364
Erlanger A. Turner, Shelly P. Harrell, T. Bryant-Davis
The purpose of this article is to describe the Black Love, Activism, and Community (BLAC) model of healing and resilience. The assumption of the BLAC model is that Black activism is inspired and sustained by love and community. Building on empirical research, liberation psychology, and African-centered psychology, the BLAC model identifies four culturally grounded domains of resilience (relationships, spirituality, identity, and active expression) that are hypothesized to serve as protective factors. These domains are also postulated to be critical components of culturally centered healing practices. Within the context of anti-Black racism, it is important to understand how activism can mitigate mental health outcomes among Black activists. The BLAC model also describes culturally centered intervention approaches for healing and wellness. Finally, applications of the BLAC model are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984221084779
Brianna Z. Ross, William DeShields, Christopher L Edwards, J. Livingston
Black women in America have consistently been at the forefront of almost every civil, political, and cultural activist movement. Within the past two decades, Black women have created movements such as Black Lives Matter, the Black Youth Project 100, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Say Her Name, and Black Girls Vote. Considering these trends, there is a need to understand what factors influence Black women’s commitment to activist movements. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to identify factors that contribute to activism among Black women. To do this, 107 Black women from a mid-sized, Southeastern city were sampled for primary data analysis. Regression analyses were used to assess associations between activism, perceived racism, psychological empowerment, and spirituality. The results indicated significant positive relationships between activism, perceived racism, and psychological empowerment; such that perceived racism and psychological empowerment were both significantly related to increases in activism. Contrary to expectations, spirituality and activism were not related in the present study. These results have implications for future researchers, mental health professionals, and policymakers.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984221086449
W. Cross, H. Neville, C. L. Austin, Jessica S. Reinhardt
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a social movement. The video recording of the death of George Floyd represented a collective Encounter that spread across the United States and the globe via various social media platforms with startling immediacy. In this manuscript, the authors apply Nigrescence theory to the BLM protests of 2020. We argue that Nigrescence theory provides a framework to understand catalysts to individual and collective activism and the progression of a social movement. In the current analysis, Immersion-Emersion is demonstrated citing the types of social and organizational changes initiated by groups, companies, and institutions. The movement is ongoing; thus, evidence of Internalization as well as Internalization-Commitment is missing. However, published objectives make clear the movement’s vision and commitments. Although it centers race, when combined with the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM has uncovered the need for change related to social class as well as race and an immediate challenge for the BLM leadership is their ability to address this intersectional phenomenon.
{"title":"Black Lives Matter and Nigrescence Theory: When Police Violence Triggers an Encounter","authors":"W. Cross, H. Neville, C. L. Austin, Jessica S. Reinhardt","doi":"10.1177/00957984221086449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984221086449","url":null,"abstract":"Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a social movement. The video recording of the death of George Floyd represented a collective Encounter that spread across the United States and the globe via various social media platforms with startling immediacy. In this manuscript, the authors apply Nigrescence theory to the BLM protests of 2020. We argue that Nigrescence theory provides a framework to understand catalysts to individual and collective activism and the progression of a social movement. In the current analysis, Immersion-Emersion is demonstrated citing the types of social and organizational changes initiated by groups, companies, and institutions. The movement is ongoing; thus, evidence of Internalization as well as Internalization-Commitment is missing. However, published objectives make clear the movement’s vision and commitments. Although it centers race, when combined with the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM has uncovered the need for change related to social class as well as race and an immediate challenge for the BLM leadership is their ability to address this intersectional phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":47588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Black Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76001467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00957984211016236
Dorneshia L. Thomas, George S. Stavros, Steven J. Sandage, L. Berg-Cross, E. J. Nichols
This article focuses on the psychology of principled nonviolent activism, specifically ideas associated with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence and how they are compatible with attachment theory and related areas of modern neuroscience (e.g., attachment/social neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology). The proposed Kingian Neuro-Relational Theory (KNRT) recognizes King as having a relational development approach to social justice. KNRT offers a way of understanding King’s ideas to aid research and develop strategies for reducing many forms of societal violence, with eventual outcomes of improving mental and physical health via stress reduction, and subsequent creation of a more socially just world. KNRT is an integrative, multidisciplinary approach, incorporating the philosophy of nonviolence, attachment theory, social neuroscience, ecological systems theory, and personalistic philosophy. The theory highlights developmental and clinical implications of moving beyond tactical/pragmatic nonviolent activism (nonviolent direct action) to activism via embracing nonviolence as a principled way of life (nonviolent daily interactions). This theory is building on an earlier project that conveyed how King’s philosophy of nonviolence is related to modern–day diversity and inclusion efforts.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1177/00957984221080964
Marcus D. Watson
In existential philosophy, “radical beginnings” refer to the task of uncovering the earliest, constitutive moments of a phenomenon’s existence. In this article, the author extends African psychology toward a radical beginnings direction by using the theory of half-connecting (HCT) to trace the origins of the African and European worldviews to the earliest stages of human development, particularly to the unconscious and physical bodies of people. The differences and tensions between the worldviews are considered traceable to their original and intimate relationship. Also African and European worldviews do not operate only in obvious instances involving race and racism but in everything humans create, including in the technologies and infrastructures in the background of everyday life. Finally, the author discusses how HCT can help therapists expand their understanding of the sources of mental and behavioral distress, which may incite new, creative thinking about how disorders are treated.
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