Proactive coping with discrimination: A mediator between ethnic-racial socialization and Latinx youth's internalizing symptoms |
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Authors: | Valerie V. Salcido Gabriela L. Stein |
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Affiliation: | 1. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA;2. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA |
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Abstract: | There is a dearth of knowledge in the coping literature on how minoritized youth cope with racism-related stressors and the predictors of effective coping responses. This two-wave study examined the direct and indirect effects of ethnic-racial socialization on depressive and anxiety symptoms via proactive coping with discrimination in a community sample of 135 Latinx adolescents (Mage = 16, SD = 1.27; 59% female). Results indicate that cultural socialization was related to higher use of proactive coping with discrimination 6 months later, which in turn, was related to fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms. There were no direct or indirect effects between preparation for bias and mental health outcomes. |
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Keywords: | adolescents coping discrimination ethnic-racial socialization Latinx |
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