title: Racism-related stress, Africultural coping, and religious problem-solving among African Americans.
abstract: This study explored the extent to which three types of racism-related stress (i.e., individual, institutional, and cultural) would predict the use of specific Africultural coping strategies (i.e., cognitive/emotional debriefing, spiritual-centered, collective, and ritual-centered coping) and religious problem-solving styles (i.e., self-directing, deferring, and collaborative) in a sample of 284 African American men and women. The authors found that higher institutional racism-related stress was associated with greater use of cognitive/emotional debriefing, spiritual-centered, and collective coping in African American women. Findings also indicated that higher cultural racism-related stress was predictive of lower use of self-directing religious problem-solving in African American women. Moreover, higher perceived cultural racism-related stress was related to greater use of collective coping strategies in African American men. Individual racism-related stress was not predictive of any forms of Africultural coping strategies or religious problem-solving. Implications of the findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY 10019, USA. malewis@jjay.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Ma'at E Lyris
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Lewis-Coles
authors.forename: Madonna G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Constantine
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011287:Prejudice; D011340:Problem Solving; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D029181:Spirituality; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires