Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology最新文献

Objectives: There is a paucity of research focused on risk and protective factors for depression in rural Latine adolescents. The present study first identified variables commonly described in conceptual models of depression etiology and maintenance in Latine adolescents and rural populations, including demographic (i.e., age, sex), cultural (i.e., acculturation), familial (i.e., family conflict, familism), and contextual factors (i.e., socioeconomic strain, parental education level, discrimination-related stress). A machine learning approach was then used to understand the relative contributions of these variables to depression in rural Latine adolescents.

Method: Participants (n = 670; M_age = 15.74; 53% female) were Latine adolescents in grades 9-12 recruited from a high school in a low-income rural area, who completed a battery of self-report measures. A data-driven recursive partitioning method was used to examine the joint contribution of these variables to depression severity.

Results: Using a conditional inference framework, adolescents with low depression scores were characterized by high familism and low discrimination-related stress, whereas adolescents with high depression scores endorsed low familism. Female adolescents had higher depression severity than their male counterparts.

Conclusions: These findings are consistent with both conceptual models of depression in Latine youth and previous empirical studies, particularly those showing that familism and discrimination-related stress play a significant role as protective and risk factors, respectively. The identification of crucial variables using data-driven approaches could help improve screening for and treatment of depression in rural Latine youth who experience significant mental health inequities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: National identification can shape historical narratives of past social movements, which in turn may influence support for contemporary collective action. Focusing on the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), two studies involving Black and White Americans examined how the strength of national identification influences their construals of the CRM and subsequent support for collective action for racial justice.

Method: Survey 1 was a survey study, whereas Study 2 experimentally manipulated national identity salience.

Results: In Study 1, higher national identification was associated with perceiving the CRM as more successful in achieving racial justice and with attributing this success to national institutions and CRM leaders. Study 2 experimentally manipulated the strength of national identification. High national identity salience lowered the perceived role of national actors in hindering the success of the CRM. Across both studies, these construals (i.e., higher attributions to national actors for CRM's failure to achieve racial justice and elevating the role of national actors and prominent Movement leaders over everyday Black Americans) were, in turn, linked to lower support for contemporary collective action for racial justice. Notably, the results revealed the same patterns of associations across Black and White American samples.

Conclusion: These findings underscore the role of national identification in shaping construals of past social movements and support for present-day collective action. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Reliable and valid tools assessing online racism exposures in youth of color are needed. The present study examined the validity, internal consistency, and measurement invariance of the modified individual and vicarious Online Racial Discrimination (ORD) subscales from the Online Victimization Scale (OVS; Tynes et al., 2010).

Method: Using a nationally representative sample of Black and Latinx adolescents (N = 696), this study employed an exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) to (a) confirm the factor structure with the updated individual and vicarious ORD subscales, (b) test the measurement invariance across racial-ethnic and gender groups, and (c) investigate the construct validity.

Results: Findings revealed that the two-factor model provided good fit of the data and good conceptual clarity consistent with our original framework. Additionally, the individual and vicarious ORD subscales met the criteria for scalar measurement invariance across racial-ethnic groups. These subscales also met criteria for metric invariance across gender groups, and this finding cautions users from comparing (adjusted-)means of intercepts across gender groups given that scalar measurement invariance was not supported.

Conclusion: The ORD scale is a reliable and valid measure for assessing experiences of online racial discrimination in Black and Latinx adolescents. These findings provide further support for the ORD scale's psychometric properties to help advance this line of research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: The social category of race plays an important role in how people navigate their identities and social worlds, especially in societies where racial injustice is salient. The present study considers the racial identity experiences of Multiracial and monoracial Black adults in the United States during a race-salient moment: the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Using survey data collected in the fall of 2020, our study seeks to understand racial identity and activism experiences among age-diverse monoracial and Multiracial Black people during BLM 2020.

Method: Participants were 183 Black adults in the United States (73 Multiracial, 110 monoracial). Regressions were conducted to examine (a) how identity exploration and commitment differed by age and by Multiracial status during a time of heightened racial salience, and (b) how identity exploration and commitment was associated with BLM engagement.

Results: We found that Multiracial and monoracial individuals engage with racial identity differently across age groups, reflecting their different relationships with dominant societal narratives of race. We also found positive associations between racial identity and BLM engagement regardless of participants' Multiracial status or age.

Conclusions: While our findings did underscore several commonalities across Multiracial and monoracial Black people, they also indicated a need to revisit the relevance of established (mono)racial identity development models for Multiracial individuals, especially outside of adolescence and young adulthood. Revisiting previous models is critical to engage with the m(ai)cro process of racial identity and how the cultural context of anti-Blackness and monoracism shapes individual development across the life course. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: This study aimed to develop an Afrocentric socialization measure that is needed to further Afrocentric research and evaluate Afrocentric interventions.

Method: An item pool was created from previous measures, after which further selection and refinement took place based on expert opinion. The factor structure was examined using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in an initial sample of 202 males. Then a second study was carried out among males and females (n = 748) that was used for a second EFA on a random sample (n = 200), confirmatory factor analysis (n = 548), and for validation.

Results: The results indicated that the Parental Afrocentric Socialization Scale (PASS) was able to assess ntu (self-determination, being meaningful in the world), luvila (value of heritage, being part of the group), imani (faith, the relationship with God), and ubuntu (I am because you are, relationships with other people). The factor structure was sex invariant and the scales were reliable.

Conclusion: Support for the validity of the PASS was found in correlations with measures of ethnic identity, flourishing, career aspirations, and collectivism. The PASS provides a new measurement of specific strengths of Afrocentric socialization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: Research has not often delved into the experiences of the Moroccan-heritage community in Western societies. We followed a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative with quantitative methods, applying an intersectionality perspective to analyze the feelings and perceptions of Moroccan-heritage people about their situation in Spain, interaction with Spaniards, perceived discrimination, and metaperceptions to understand their affective reactions to injustice (Studies 1 and 2), and willingness to mobilize (Study 2).

Method: In Study 1, we conducted four discussion groups with Moroccan-heritage women (n = 12) and men (n = 13) separately. In Study 2, we analyzed with a quantitative survey (n = 147) participants' identity fusion with Morocco and Spain, perceived metaprejudice and discrimination, metadehumanization, the evaluation of the ingroup situation, affective reactions to their situation, and support of collective actions for their rights.

Results: The analysis of Study 1 revealed experiences of discrimination and spontaneous positive but also negative metaperceptions, especially among women, including an alarming metadehumanization. Quantitative analyses in Study 2 confirmed gender differences, with women reporting worse feelings and perceptions, and confirmed that metadehumanization was crucial to predict indignation and anger of Moroccan-heritage people, while perceived discrimination was significant for mobilization.

Conclusions: Although gender differences need additional clarification, these findings advance our theoretical knowledge about the sources of shared grievances among disadvantaged group members and the role of metadehumanization in their affective reactions to injustice. Interventions are urgent to address metadehumanization and canalize its affective consequences to promote social change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Racial discrimination is consistently linked to negative mental health outcomes. However, less is known about how unique patterns of coping in Black Americans experiencing high discrimination stress may moderate the association between discrimination and mental health. The present study uses person-centered methods to identify and describe latent profiles of coping in Black Americans, to understand how these coping profiles are linked to mental health, and to examine whether latent coping profiles moderate the links between discrimination and mental health.

Method: Participants were Black Americans (N = 289; M_age = 44.87; 63% women) from the Midlife Development in the United States Milwaukee Refresher study. Latent profile analysis was used to uncover subgroups characterized by distinct patterns of coping strategies. Direct associations between latent profile membership and mental health were examined. Finally, latent profiles were tested as moderators of associations between discrimination and mental health.

Results: Four profiles of coping responses were identified: passive responders (29% of the sample), evasive responders (15%), diverse responders (17%), and engaged responders (39%). Engaged responders had the lowest prevalence of mental health problems. Further, membership in the engaged responders profile moderated associations between discrimination and mental health, such that the associations between racial discrimination and mental health outcomes were generally stronger in other profiles.

Conclusions: Person-centered methods uncovered meaningful subgroups characterized by unique coping patterns and pointed to engaged responders as being most resilient to the effects of discrimination. Future research should test these associations longitudinally and examine whether more adaptive coping profiles can be fostered through intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: Ethnic minority youth experience multiple sociocultural stressors, experiences that are distinct from general measures of perceived stress. The present study aims to identify heterogenous subgroups of youth based on three self-reported sociocultural stressors (bicultural stress, perceived discrimination, and perceived negative context of reception).

Method: Data are from a pilot study of Hispanic and Somali immigrant-origin youth (N = 291, 46.4% Hispanic) residing in an urban midwestern setting (M_age = 15.9 years [SD = 1.5]; 48.5% female, 35.7% first generation). Using latent profile analysis, three empirically derived profiles described as low cultural stress, high perceived discrimination, and high bicultural stress were identified. Multinomial logistic regression models predicted class membership using theoretically and empirically supported correlates (age, race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and nativity) and examined class association with anxiety and depression.

Results: Compared to the low cultural stress profile, Relative Risk Ratios (RRR) indicated that membership in the high perceived discrimination profile was associated with age (RRR = 1.81, 95% CI [1.14, 2.86]) and generational status (e.g., U.S. born vs. first-generation; RRR = 0.0.22, 95% CI [0.07, 0.75]) but not depression or anxiety whereas membership in the high sociocultural stress profile was associated with elevated past week anxiety (RRR = 2.57, 95% CI [1.86, 3.54]), but not depression.

Conclusions: The experience of sociocultural stress is heterogenous and certain demographic characteristics, such as age and generation, and high sociocultural stressors, especially bicultural stress, may be important considerations in identifying youth that would benefit from tailored support services. Further work exploring how sociocultural stressors affect mental health among immigrant origin youth is needed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Outgroup cultural use elicits controversy, including about whether it is immoral. The objective of the current work was to ask how laypeople morally evaluate individuals who adopt elements of outgroup culture for their own use and to probe a psychological mechanism underlying these evaluations.

Method: In three studies, participants provided moral evaluations of actors who engaged in outgroup versus ingroup cultural use. In Study 2, participants additionally rated how harmful each actor's behavior was; in Study 3, participants learned whether or not each behavior caused harm.

Results: Study 1 demonstrated the basic effect that participants rated actors who engaged in outgroup cultural use as less moral than actors who did not. Two preregistered follow-up studies highlighted the role of perceived harm in these moral judgments, as greater perceptions of harm led to harsher moral judgments of actors who used outgroup cultural elements among both Black and White perceivers.

Conclusions: By integrating work on intergroup relations and moral psychology, the current research suggests that some forms of outgroup cultural use may signal a moral shortcoming for high-status actors and is among the first to illuminate the cognitive processes driving these moral judgments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Perceptions of unequal treatment, especially when shared, can challenge the status-quo. Starting from the social grounding of shared perceptions, we ask when perceptions of inequality align and converge in ethno-racially diverse peer groups. We are especially interested when perceptions are shared among peers across ethno-racial group boundaries. Social-psychological research suggests asymmetric sharing: Ethno-racial minority group members often see less inequality with more majority contact, while in some cases ethno-racial majority members perceive more inequality with more minority contact. Therefore, we ask if perceptions of inequality are shared across minority and majority groups within time and if perceptions of inequality converge over time.

Method: We focus on schools as sites of inequality and cross-group interactions. First, we tested our predictions with 290 minority and 468 majority youth in 53 classes in the United States using multilevel modelling. Next, we implemented follow-up studies in Belgium with 1,800 minority and 1,700 majority adolescents in 433 classes using longitudinal multilevel models.

Results: In line with intragroup sharing, minority and majority youth shared their minority and majority peers' perceptions of inequality, respectively. Furthermore, we documented cross-group sharing: Majority youth also shared their minority peers' perceptions, especially in contexts with higher minority proportions.

Conclusions: We found consistent evidence of sharing minority perceptions, so that both majority and minority youth would see inequality through their minority peers' eyes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).