Trajectories of Discrimination across the College Years: Associations with Academic, Psychological, and Physical Adjustment Outcomes

Present aims were to examine differences in fulfillment of emotional and interactional needs between 128 breast cancer patients and 121 partners and to examine differences in emotional and physical adjustment outcomes using a multivariate model of family adjustment to illness. Intact data series were obtained at 7 to 10 days, at 1, 2, 3, and 6 months, and 1 year postsurgery. The effect of cancer accentuated a complementary pattern for both emotional and interactional needs. The t tests of differences between means were significant at all phases. The main effect of time was statistically significant for scores on Negative Emotions, Psychological Distress, and Psychological Well-being for both partners. Performance of life roles in the vocational, domestic, and social environments also improved significantly over time. Although perceived Health Status remained stable for partners, patients' perceptions improved across phases of illness.

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Racial Microaggression, Overt Discrimination, and Distress: (In)Direct Associations With Psychological Adjustment

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000020901714 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 551-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. Priscilla Lui

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

African American ◽

Psychological Distress ◽

Alcohol Consumption ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Psychological Adjustment ◽

Asian American ◽

Drinking Problems ◽

Racial Microaggression ◽

Adjustment Outcomes

Scholars in diverse disciplines have examined the associations between psychological adjustment and microaggression, and overt discrimination. It remains unclear whether the roles of microaggression in adjustment outcomes can be differentiated from the roles of overt discrimination and neuroticism. I examined the extent to which racial microaggression explained unique variances of negative affect, alcohol consumption, and drinking problems while controlling for overt discrimination and neuroticism among African American, Asian American, and Latinx American college students ( N = 713). Intervening roles of psychological distress linking microaggression and overt discrimination to adjustment outcomes were also tested. Among African Americans, microaggression and overt discrimination did not consistently predict psychological adjustment. Among Asian and Latinx Americans, microaggression and overt discrimination predicted negative affect via psychological distress. Microaggression also explained the variances of alcohol use outcomes among Asian Americans. Findings are discussed in the context of an acute racism reactions model and underscore the importance of considering overt discrimination and microaggression simultaneously as determinants of psychological adjustment.

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Adult transracial and inracial adoptees: Effects of race, gender, adoptive family structure, and placement history on adjustment outcomes.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry ◽

10.1037/h0080384 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 87-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Devon Brooks ◽

Richard P. Barth

Keyword(s):

Family Structure ◽

Adoptive Family ◽

Adjustment Outcomes

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