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ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2023

Racial Slurs by Police and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Intrusive Policing and Perceived Injustice.

Michael J McFarland, Cheryl A S McFarland, Kyleigh Moniz, Lauren Manley

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Article in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Racism-Related Experiences and Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael J McFarlandDepartment of Sociology, Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. mmcfarland@fsu.edu.
Cheryl A S McFarlandEvaluation & Analytics Department, Central Jersey Family Health Consortium, North Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Kyleigh MonizDepartment of Sociology, Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Lauren ManleySchool of Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Florida State University · US

Funding

Fragile Families and the Transition to AdulthoodR01HD036916 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Kathryn Edin, Jane Waldfogel · 1999 to 2026
$46.3M
ECONOMIC STATUS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND CHILD NEGLECTR01HD039135 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI PAXSON, CHRISTINA H · 2000 to 2004
$3.1M
Child Care and Parental Employment in Fragile FamiliesR01HD040421 · NICHD · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE · PI BROOKS-GUNN, JEANNE · 2002 to 2006
$2.8M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD036916NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD039135NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD040421
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 785), this article considers the ramifications of police use of racial slurs, a type of intrusive behavior, toward minority youth for posttraumatic stress (PTS). We also examine whether other intrusive police behaviors exacerbate this relationship and test whether perceptions of injustice mediate it. Results indicated that hearing a police officer use a racial slur was positively associated with PTS after controlling for intrusive police behaviors and other covariates. Intrusive policing tended to co-occur with the use of racial slurs and was positively associated with PTS. The association between hearing a racial slur and PTS did not vary by the number of intrusive behaviors exhibited by police. The association between hearing a slur and PTS was partially mediated by perceived procedural injustice. Overall, the use of racial slurs by police may do harm to minority adolescents by putting them at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder. Our results are consistent with prior research that racial slurs may contribute to PTS by eroding the bounds of what is considered just and fair. Interestingly, the association between racial slurs and PTS was independent of other intrusive policing behaviors. Mental health screeners should ask not only about being stopped by police but the characteristics of that encounter as well - including those imbued with racial animus.

Indexed as

PoliceStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdolescentHumansMental HealthMinority GroupsRacial GroupsAdolescencePolicingPosttraumatic Stress DisorderRacism

Identifiers

PMID37626221
PMCPMC10618127
OpenAlexW4386156548

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