ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Racial (vs. self) affirmation as a protective mechanism against the effects of racial exclusion on negative affect and substance use vulnerability among black young adults.
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- A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Pooled it
- Bystander Acknowledgment Mitigates the Psychological and Physiological Pain of Racial Discrimination for Black Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The journal of pain · 2024Trial
- Psychosocial influences on pain in transgender individuals.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Anti-Black racism in the early years: the experiences of Black families and early childhood educators in Nova Scotia.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- The Association Between Racial Attitudes, Alcohol Use and Mood Disorders Among Black Adolescents.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2023Article
- Racial centrality mediates the association between adolescent racial discrimination and adult cigarette smoking outcomes among Black Americans.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- The double burden of racial discrimination in daily-life moments: Increases in negative emotions and depletion of psychosocial resources among emerging adult African Americans.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2021Article
- Exploring the Links Between Social Exclusion and Substance Use, Misuse, and Addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The impact of early racial discrimination on illegal behavior, arrest, and incarceration among African Americans.The American psychologist · 2020Article
- Moderation of the effects of discrimination-induced affective responses on health outcomes.Psychology & health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Affirming one's racial identity may help protect against the harmful effects of racial exclusion on substance use cognitions. This study examined whether racial versus self-affirmation (vs. no affirmation) buffers against the effects of racial exclusion on substance use willingness and substance use word associations in Black young adults. It also examined anger as a potential mediator of these effects. After being included, or racially excluded by White peers, participants were assigned to a writing task: self-affirmation, racial-affirmation, or describing their sleep routine (neutral). Racial exclusion predicted greater perceived discrimination and anger. Excluded participants who engaged in racial-affirmation reported reduced perceived discrimination, anger, and fewer substance use cognitions compared to the neutral writing group. This relation between racial-affirmation and lower substance use willingness was mediated by reduced perceived discrimination and anger. Findings suggest racial-affirmation is protective against racial exclusion and, more generally, that ethnic based approaches to minority substance use prevention may have particular potential.
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