@article{ref1,
title="Discrimination and depressive symptoms among Black and Asian American college students: shared and group-specific processes of self-concept",
journal="Cultural diversity and ethnic minority psychology",
year="2022",
author="Yeo, Anna J. and Halpern, Leslie F. and Flagg, Amanda M. and Lin, Betty",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Black and Asian American emerging adults are at higher risk of experiencing racial/ethnic discrimination and related distress. Racial/ethnic discrimination may increase vulnerability for depressive symptoms by diminishing individuals' positive self-concept. While low global self-esteem has been noted as a crucial process linking discrimination and depressive symptoms, it is unclear if it plays a unique role beyond other relevant aspects of one's self-concept: racial/ethnic private regard and centrality. Moreover, although different racial/ethnic groups are known to experience discrimination in distinctive ways, little is known about how relative processes of self-esteem and racial/ethnic identity may differ across these groups. We investigated the generalizability and specificity of discrimination to distress linkages across Asian and Black Americans. <br><br>METHOD: Undergraduate Black (N = 109) and Asian American (N = 90) students self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination, depressive symptoms, and self-concept. <br><br>RESULTS: Global self-esteem indirectly linked the association between discrimination and depressive symptoms among Black Americans beyond the effects of racial/ethnic identity. Only among Black Americans, discrimination was associated with lower private regard. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Finding highlight group-specific processes underlying Black and Asian Americans' experiences of discrimination and depressive symptoms. <br><br>FINDINGS also demonstrate shared processes of discrimination-depressive symptoms linkage across groups and underscore the need to address the pervasive issues of racism and discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1099-9809",
doi="10.1037/cdp0000549",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000549"
}