Author : Johanna Gruen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis The Impact of Ethnic Racial Socialization and Its Messages on the Experience of Race-related Stress in a Sample of Young Adults by : Johanna Gruen
Download or read book The Impact of Ethnic Racial Socialization and Its Messages on the Experience of Race-related Stress in a Sample of Young Adults written by Johanna Gruen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current research on the psychological impact of racism suggests acute and chronic experiences with race related stressors can produce race related traumatic stress. Individuals, especially those from ethnic and racial minority groups, can develop PTSD symptomology in response to one or many race related stressful experiences. However, little is known regarding the factors that influence the development and maintenance of race related traumatic stress. One such factor may be ethnic-racial socialization messages and the coping skills they impart. This study investigated the potential moderating role of ethnic racial socialization messages on race related traumatic stress in a sample of ethnically diverse university students. Six hundred and thirty-nine participants completed the Posttraumatic Checklist Scale-Stress Specific Version (PCL-S), Race-Related Events Scale (RES), and Perceived Ethnic-Racial Socialization Measure (PERS). It was hypothesized that participants who reported receiving more cultural socialization/pluralism messages and preparation for bias messages would report lower levels of PTSD symptom severity as the number of reported race related stressful experiences increased. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that participants who reported more promotion of mistrust messages would report higher levels of PTSD symptom severity. While the hypotheses were not supported using simultaneous multiple regressions, the data revealed interesting descriptive results. Total number of race related stressors was positively correlated with PTSD symptom severity and all three types of ethnic-racial socialization messages. Participants from ethnic and racial minority groups with a mean age of 18.91 reported experiencing an average of 4.97 race related stressors over their lifetime. They also reported rarely receiving any ethnic-racial socialization messages from their caregivers. Furthermore, they had a mean score of 28.58 on the PCL-S, a score just below the suggested clinical cut-off score for general population samples when screening for PTSD. These descriptive findings indicate young adults from ethnic and racial minority groups are experiencing some PTSD symptomology in response to race related stressful experiences and represent a need for further research into potential protective factors and treatment options.