ArticleReligions2017
Does Religious Involvement Mitigate the Effects of Major Discrimination on the Mental Health of African Americans? Findings from the Nashville Stress and Health Study.
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- Religiosity and Mental Wellbeing Among Members of Majority and Minority Religions: Findings From Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Pathways from racial discrimination to cortisol/DHEA imbalance: protective role of religious involvement.Ethnicity & health · 2021Article
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- Collective ethnic-racial identity and health outcomes among African American youth: Examination of promotive and protective effects.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2019Article
- Church and Family Support Networks and Depressive Symptoms among African Americans: Findings from the National Survey of American Life.Journal of community psychology · 2018Article
- The Intersection of Religiosity, Perceived Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of Male Cancer Survivors.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterObservational
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Abstract
Several decades of scholarly research have revealed the significant toll of discrimination experiences on the well-being of African Americans. Given these findings, investigators have become increasingly interested in uncovering any potential resources made available to African Americans for mitigating the psychosocial strains of discrimination. The current study contributes to this literature by testing whether various indicators of religious involvement - e.g. church attendance, prayer, and religious social support - buffer the noxious effects of major discrimination experiences on the mental health outcomes (i.e. depression and life satisfaction) of African Americans. We analyze data from the African American subsample (n=627) of Vanderbilt University's Nashville Stress and Health Study, a cross-sectional probability sample of adults living in Davidson County, Tennessee between the years 2011 and 2014. Results from multivariate regression models indicated: (1) experiences of major discrimination were positively associated with depression and negatively associated with life satisfaction, net of religious and sociodemographic controls; and (2) religious social support offset and buffered the adverse effects of major discrimination on both mental health outcomes, particularly for those respondents who reported seeking support the most often. We discuss the implications and limitations of our study, as well as avenues for future research.
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