ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2024
Psychological Well-Being and Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethnic/Racial Identity, Discrimination, and Vigilance.
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- A meta-analytic review of the relationship between racial discrimination and alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Pooled it
- Profiles of Antiracist and Antisocial Online Behaviors among Asian American College Instagram Users: Associations with Academic Adjustment and Substance Use.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- The Role of Policy in Preventing Discrimination-Based Suicide and Substance Use Coping Outcomes Within the Transgender Community.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Ethnic-racial identity modulates emotion dysregulation and alcohol use among an adult sample of Asian Americans.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
- Mental Health Symptoms Among US College Students Before, Early, and Late Into the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Health disparities in COVID-19: immune and vascular changes are linked to disease severity and persist in a high-risk population in Riverside County, California.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The racialized landscape of COVID-19:Reverberations for minority adolescents and families in the U.S.Current opinion in psychology · 2023Review
- Psychological and Clinical Risk Factors for Substance Use in People With and Without HIV.Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS CareArticle
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Abstract
objectivesEmerging evidence indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health disparities among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) through increased exposure to racism. Although ethnic/racial identity (ERI) and mental health were associated among BIPOC young adults pre-pandemic, it is unclear how these associations may differ in the exacerbated hostile racial environment of the pandemic. The current study examined the associations between ERI exploration and commitment within the context of ethnic/racial discrimination (ERD) and race-related vigilance with psychological well-being and substance use as explained by rumination.
methodsData from a cross-sectional online survey of 450 AIAN, Asian, Black, and Latinx young adults (18-25 years) collected in April 2020 included demographic variables, standardized measures of ERI, ERD, race-related vigilance, rumination brooding and reflection, substance use, and psychological well-being.
resultsBlack respondents reported more exposure to ERD than AIAN and Asian young adults. ERI exploration and commitment were positively associated with well-being. ERI exploration, ERD, and rumination were associated with higher levels of substance use. An association between ERI exploration and more substance use and lower well-being was partially accounted for by higher levels of rumination. An association between ERI commitment and more substance use was fully accounted for by higher levels of rumination.
conclusionsAlthough ERI exploration and commitment were associated with better psychological well-being among BIPOC young adults, a significant association was found between ERI commitment and more substance use as explained by rumination. Public health efforts should cultivate culturally sensitive mental health services to decrease rumination and its negative association with substance use and well-being.
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