Racial Discrimination, Coping, and Underlying Processes in African American Young Adults
This recently completed project combined physiological and experimental methods to examine: (1) mechanisms and processes by which racial discrimination may affect health and well-being in African American young adults; (2) the interplay among situational aspects of racially discriminatory events and behavioral (e.g., emotional eating) and physiological (e.g., respiratory sinus arrhythmia) aspects of coping responses to racial discrimination; and (3) the importance of attitudes about the meaning and significance of race (racial identity). This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
This recently completed project combined physiological and experimental methods to examine: (1) mechanisms and processes by which racial discrimination may affect health and well-being in African American young adults; (2) the interplay among situational aspects of racially discriminatory events and behavioral (e.g., emotional eating) and physiological (e.g., respiratory sinus arrhythmia) aspects of coping responses to racial discrimination; and (3) the importance of attitudes about the meaning and significance of race (racial identity). This research was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Racism, Identity, Coping, and Health Study
We are currently in the process of developing an online survey-based study that will be the administered to a nationally representative sample of African Americans. The survey will examine the links between racism (interpersonal, vigilance, and perceptions of structural racism) and self-reported physical (e.g., overall self-rated health) and mental health (e.g., symptoms of depression and anxiety). This project will also examine the mechanisms (e.g., emotion regulation, coping) that underlie the associations between racism and negative outcomes as well as the role of protective/vulnerability factors (e.g., racial identity).
*We are also in the process of conceptualizing a series of lab-based experiments that will examine the impacts of race-based mistreatment on emotional, behavioral, and psychophysiological outcomes.
We are currently in the process of developing an online survey-based study that will be the administered to a nationally representative sample of African Americans. The survey will examine the links between racism (interpersonal, vigilance, and perceptions of structural racism) and self-reported physical (e.g., overall self-rated health) and mental health (e.g., symptoms of depression and anxiety). This project will also examine the mechanisms (e.g., emotion regulation, coping) that underlie the associations between racism and negative outcomes as well as the role of protective/vulnerability factors (e.g., racial identity).
*We are also in the process of conceptualizing a series of lab-based experiments that will examine the impacts of race-based mistreatment on emotional, behavioral, and psychophysiological outcomes.