title: Future Directions in Research on Racism-Related Stress and Racial-Ethnic Protective Factors for Black Youth.
abstract: Research on racism-related stress and racial-ethnic protective factors represents an important enterprise for optimizing the mental health of African American and other racial and ethnic minority youth. However, there has been a relative dearth of work on these factors in the clinical psychology research literature, and more work is needed in outlets such as these. To this end, the current article adopts a developmental psychopathology framework and uses recent empirical findings to outline our current understanding of racism-related stress and racial-ethnic protective factors (i.e., racial identity, racial socialization, Africentric worldview) for African American youth. We then provide nine recommendations-across basic, applied, and broader/cross-cutting research lines-that we prioritize as essential to advancing the future scientific investigation of this crucial research agenda. Within and across these recommendations, we issue a charge to researchers and clinicians alike, with the ultimate goal of alleviating the negative mental health impact that racism-related stress can have on the well-being and mental health of African American and other racial and ethnic minority youth.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: Shawn C T
authors.initials: SCT
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: Enrique W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Neblett
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D065840:Protective Factors; D063505:Racism / Q000523:psychology*; D012933:Social Identification; D012951:Socialization