ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2024
Moral injury, race-related stress and post-traumatic stress disorder in a trauma-exposed Black population.
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- Structure and correlates of the Moral Injury Exposure and Symptom Scale for Civilians (MIESS-C) in a community sample with high trauma exposure.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Resting-State Neural Signatures of Moral Injury: Associations With Rumination.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Identity in turmoil: Investigating the morally injurious dimensions of minority stress.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Reframing the Victim-Offender Overlap: Moral Injury and Adolescent Offending.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Review
- The role of measurement in moral injury care: latent profiles on the moral injury and distress scale.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundRace-related stress (RRS) is an unrecognized source of moral injury (MI)-or the emotional and/or spiritual suffering that may emerge after exposure to events that violate deeply held beliefs. Additionally, MI has not been explored as a mechanism of risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in trauma-exposed civilians. We examined relations among exposure to potentially morally injurious events (moral injury exposure, MIE), related distress (moral injury distress, MID), and RRS in Black Americans. Potential indirect associations between RRS and PTSD symptoms via MID were also examined.
methodsBlack Americans (n = 228; 90.4% female; M
resultsMIE was significantly correlated with cultural (r = 0.27), individual (r = 0.29), and institutional (r = 0.25) RRS; MID also correlated with cultural (r = 0.31), individual (r = 0.31), and institutional (r = 0.26) RRS (ps < 0.001). We found an indirect effect of RRS on PTSD symptoms via MID (β = 0.10, p < 0.005).
conclusionsAll types of RRS were associated with facets of MI, which mediated the relationship between RRS and current PTSD symptoms. MI may be a potential mechanism through which RRS increases the risk for PTSD in Black individuals.
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