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Minority status leads to increased exposure to distal stressors. Minority status leads to increased exposure to proximal stressors, due to distal stressors. Minority individuals suffer adverse health outcomes, which are caused by exposure to proximal and distal stressors. These three tenets of the minority stress theory have been tested in over ...
Minority groups commonly report experiences with racism and discrimination, and they consider these experiences to be stressful. In a national probability sample of minority groups and whites. African Americans and Hispanic American reported experiencing higher overall levels of global stress than did whites.
Also, children who have experienced an ACE are at higher risk of being re-traumatized or suffering multiple ACEs. [7] The amount and types of ACEs can cause significant negative impacts and increase the risk of internalizing and externalizing in children. [8] To date, there is still limited research on how ACEs impact Latino children.
Cultural socialization is the mode by which parents of ethnic children communicate cultural values and history to address ethnic and racial issues. [4] Research has consistently linked cultural socialization with positive psycho-social outcomes such as a decrease in anxiety, anger, depressive symptoms, and overall psychological distress as a result of facing discrimination. [4]
Poverty has been linked to higher prevalence of many health conditions, including increased risk of chronic disease, injury, deprived infant development, stress, anxiety, depression, and premature death. [2] These health conditions of poverty most burden vulnerable groups such as women, children, ethnic minorities, and disabled people. [2]
Vonnie Cile McLoyd is an American developmental psychologist known for her research on how poverty, parental job loss, unemployment, and work characteristics affect children's social emotional development. She is the Ewart A. C. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. [1]
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology is the quarterly academic journal of the American Psychological Association Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race. [1] It covers the psychological science of culture, ethnicity, and race. [2] The first issue of the journal appeared in 1995. [3]
[5] [6] General patterns such as the prevalence of minority stress have been broadly studied. [ 1 ] There is also a lack of empirical research on racial and ethnic differences in mental health status among the LGBT community and the intersection of multiple minority identities.