Ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) plays a prominent role in how minoritized youth cope with discrimination, but there is a dearth of research on peer ERS in relation to coping.

Parenting, including parental psychological control, has a considerable influence on Latine adolescent behavior (Barber, 2002). Cultural values are also protective factors among Latine adolescents (Ojeda & Piña-Watson, 2014). To expand this research, the present study validated a parental psychological control measure among Mexican adolescents. It also examined how perceived maternal and paternal psychological control was associated with Mexican adolescent academic and social self-esteem and whether machismo and caballerismo played a role in these associations.

Queer Asian Americans encounter intersectional stressors due to their multiple minoritized statuses, which can increase the risk of mental health problems. Some research has suggested that social resources, including family acceptance of sexual orientation and general social integration, have the potential to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people of color from the harmful impacts of these minority stressors. However, most studies have been cross-sectional, and few have examined the buffering effects of social resources specifically for queer Asian Americans. The present study addresses these gaps by testing whether family acceptance and social integration can buffer the concurrent and prospective links between racism distress within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities and mental health among queer Asian Americans.

Adolescence marks an important period for developing ideological orientations toward intergroup inequality, and for racially marginalized youth, this can have implications for how they perceive their own social standing. Accordingly, we aimed to assess how two prominent intergroup belief systems, critical consciousness (i.e., critical analysis of and motivation to challenge social inequality) and social dominance orientation (SDO; i.e., preference for intergroup hierarchy), associate with one another over time among racially marginalized adolescents. Additionally, we examine how enrollment in ethnic studies courses, designed to promote critical consciousness, influences the developmental trajectories of these two intergroup ideologies compared to unenrolled students.

Due to longstanding societal, racial, and health care disparities, Black communities were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet investigations of resulting mental health sequelae in this community remain limited. Utilizing a mixed-methods design, the present study examined the role of COVID-19-related stress, derailment, and resilience, on posttraumatic stress symptoms for Black adults.

The cumulative consequences of maternally experienced racism stress may be transmitted intergenerationally from mother to child during sensitive developmental periods. Guided by segmented assimilation theory and the multidimensional conceptualization of racism-related stress, we examined how sociopolitical context (sanctuary vs. nonsanctuary county status) may play a critical role in maternal and child emotional well-being.

Black girls are at elevated sexual risk due to the combined effects of sexual development, adultification, gendered racist stereotyping, and lack of protection. Colorism is a skin-tone stratification system that privileges lighter skinned people of color over their darker skinned counterparts. Although colorism has been conceptualized as a determinant of Black girls' mental, physical, and sexual health, little is known about Black girls' understanding of the influence of colorism on psychological and sexual development. This qualitative study examined the influence of colorism on Black girls' psychological and sexual development.

This study responds to the suicide crisis among Black youth populations by tailoring suicide interventions to meet their specific cultural needs. We obtained insight from community stakeholders about culturally adapting suicide prevention interventions for Black youth, using the Linking Individuals Needing Care intervention as an example. Using a culturally adaptive qualitative design Process, we conducted a series of community-engaged focus groups over 6 months with four distinct participant groups of diverse genders, including Black youth ages 13-19, caregivers, community members, and providers. Our participants ( = 58) provided feedback on intervention adaptations in a reiterative process aligned with the Ecological Validity Model. We found recommendations for deep-structure-level cultural adaptations versus surface-structure-level adaptations. Themes included (1) Using wellness and collective focused language, (2) Prioritizing mutual trust, (3) Disrupting and reframing cultural myths, (4) Integrating Black-focused content to validate identities, (5) Affirming Black youth and family protective factors and stressors, (6) Developing relevant and attainable youth and family goals, (7) Infusing culture into crisis planning, and (8) Creating a Black-centered community of care. Findings illuminate the need for a focus on racial socialization and validating the strengths of Black youth versus their struggles, which is meaningful for suicide prevention efforts. For suicide prevention intervention design with Black youth, community feedback needs to be prioritized, deep-structure level adaptations included, and racial socialization content embedded. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

The Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale assesses police-based discrimination and shows excellent psychometric properties among Black men. We posit that experiences with law enforcement vary at the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender and are linked to psychosocial outcomes.

American Indian (AI) people are disproportionately impacted by opioid use disorder (OUD) and its associated consequences. However, there is a dearth of published research about substance-use treatment and its efficacy for AI people with OUD. People with OUD, especially those with a longer substance-use history, often have widely variable experiences in their access to and engagement in substance-use treatment. Furthermore, there is a paucity of literature on AI people's perceptions of their substance-use treatment experiences. This study seeks to fill this research gap.

Social support helps people of color (POC) cope with stressors such as racial discrimination. Yet when POC disclose lived experiences of racism, confidants may fail to provide support that meets disclosers' emotional needs. Drawing on theories of shared reality and emotion reappraisal, we compare two emotion-focused social support approaches: validation (conveying that recipients' feelings or responses are appropriate) and reframing (seeking to reduce recipients' distress by offering a more positive perspective).

The purpose of this study was to understand Pacific Islanders' (PIs) experiences related to accessing psychological services. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted to collect and analyze cultural perspectives and frameworks that may assist or prevent this group from seeking help.

Math stereotypes targeting gender and ethnic-racial groups emerge early in life and are maintained through adolescence, including the middle school age period. These stereotypes undermine girls' and ethnic and racial minority (ERM) children's math interests and confidence, and intervening during middle school may contribute to preventing the impact of stereotypes on math pursuit and persistence. This study examines the impact of a bias-reducing intervention used with adults-exposure to counterstereotypical role models-on diminishing math stereotypes about gender and ethnicity/race among middle school students from ERM groups.

Suicide risk among Latina adolescents is shaped by dynamic interactions among emotional, behavioral, and sociocultural factors. This study develops a causal feedback theory to illustrate how these factors reinforce or mitigate suicide risk over time.

Ethnic miming, or impersonating stereotypical caricatures of marginalized groups, remains popular despite years of protests. Previous studies highlight that individual differences in ideological orientations predicting a range of intergroup attitudes-namely, social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)-also predict support for ethnic miming. We propose that blatant dehumanization of the target groups is an underlying mechanism that helps to further explain why support for ethnic miming is stronger among individuals higher in SDO and RWA. Studies from the Netherlands (Study 1) and the United States (Study 2) provide support for this notion.

We examined item ordering and model-data fit related to items and persons for the frequency and stress appraisal versions of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale (GRMS) using an item response theory approach.

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified discrimination and racist attacks targeting Asian Americans. This challenging context has also created opportunities for individuals to engage in activism and collective action. Despite the significance of this issue, little research has explored how anti-Asian racism throughout COVID-19 has contributed to Asian and Asian American college students' engagement in activism.

This study investigates how the model minority myth (MMM) influences mental health among Asian American and Asian international college students, with particular attention to differences by citizenship and regional background.

Ethnic-racial socialization is an important cultural-developmental process in U.S. Latinx families and can be influenced by the ethnic-racial compositions of family members' ecologies, much of which extends beyond their neighborhoods. This study examined the ethnic-racial compositions of mothers' mesosystems, operationalized using activity space methods, which capture the set of locations to which individuals are regularly exposed. For Aim 1, we used a person-centered approach to identify profiles of mothers differentiated by the ethnic-racial composition of the activity spaces they navigate. For Aim 2, we explored how identified mothers' activity space profiles predicted ethnic-racial socialization of their adolescents, including cultural socialization and preparation for bias.

Parental racial socialization refers to the messages children receive about race from their parents. Little is known about parental racial socialization's long-term impact on problematic substance use or whether it can protect against adversities commonly experienced by Black Americans. We examined whether parental racial socialization reduces the risk of problematic substance use and buffers the impact of neighborhood disadvantage and racial discrimination on problematic substance use, with attention to the types of messaging.

Multiple dimensions of acculturation (Anglo orientation, Latine orientation, familial support, immigrant status) may play a role in the victimization of Latine youth. This study examined these relationships for various forms of violence, including dating violence, conventional crime, child maltreatment, peer and sibling victimization, sexual victimization, and stalking, over time.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a period of increased discrimination and hate crimes against Asian Americans. This study examines links between discrimination, as well as feelings of vulnerability, and sleep difficulties among Asian Americans during this time period. In addition, the study investigates both supportive and conflictual romantic partner interactions related to topics of discrimination, race, and activism as possible moderators of this association.

Traditional cultural connection is an established protective factor in American Indian (AI) health research. Measurement of traditional cultural connection is primarily survey-based, limiting the ability to delineate underlying processes that may be important for advancing culturally grounded mental health prevention and intervention efforts. This study aimed to establish and validate a stimulus set to probe cultural identity and provide a framework for similar development in diverse cultures.

Developing a healthy ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is a vital developmental task for ethnically or racially marginalized individuals, promoting positive mental health and psychosocial adjustment. However, no prior study has evaluated whether one of the most widely used ERI measures, the Revised Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM-R), functions equivalently across Native American and Alaska Native (NA/AN) communities.

This study examines the role of ethnic identity as potentially mediating or moderating the relationship between exposure to discrimination and depressive symptoms, and whether the inclusion of other variables, including racial group membership and discrimination-focused coping, might better explain the role of ethnic identity in the relationship between discrimination and depressive symptoms.

This research investigated whether Black people experience social identity threat when anticipating an interaction with a Black-White biracial person.

Despite the wealth of research examining detrimental consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adulthood, little is known about the effects of ACEs on African immigrant health and integration. This study examined the impact of ACEs on various social exclusion domains including sociocultural, economic, and structural exclusion, and explored the mediation and/or moderating role of depression and anxiety symptoms on this relationship. Additionally, the study also assessed the prevalence of ACEs by sociodemographic categories among this population.

The present study explored perspectives on COVID-19 vaccine acceptability, access, and strategies for pandemic recovery among rural and urban/suburban American Indian (AI) community leaders and members in California.

Anecdotal narratives and recent qualitative studies demonstrate that in Latine communities, language proficiency can be a form of gatekeeping (i.e., determining the legitimacy of people's claims to a particular status by unilaterally imposing criteria for acceptance) Latinidad. Latine individuals who are not fluent in Spanish frequently report having their Hispanic/Latine identity questioned and denied. Across two experiments, we investigated whether Latine individuals perceive non-Spanish-speaking Latine individuals as identifying less with their Latine identity.

In early 2020, https://stopaapihate.org/ was created to generate antiracism advocacy momentum for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) communities. Social media hashtags such as #StopAAPIHate also became popular in fighting against violence and bias faced by AAPI communities. As a social movement, although played an important role in advocating for racial justice, research on this movement has been limited. To address this gap, this study examined the relationship between bias and views on Stop AAPI Hate.