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Rumination partially mediates the associations between perceived ethnic discrimination, emotional distress, and aggression

Borders, Ashley, Liang, Christopher T. H.·2011·Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Research suggests that perceived ethnic discrimination is associated with poor psychological and physiological health. Rumination, or perseverative thoughts about negative experiences, may constitute a maladaptive coping strategy that mediates the associations between perceived discrimination, emotional distress, and aggression. Our sample consisted of 170 ethnic minority and 134 White American participants. For ethnic minority participants, we found a pattern of correlations consistent with rumination partially mediating a causal link between perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms, hostility, anger, and aggression. In White participants, by contrast, the significant associations between perceived discrimination and these indices of emotional and behavioral distress were not statistically mediated by rumination. We discuss possible theoretical and clinical implications of these results.

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Authors: Borders, A., & Liang, C. T. H.
Affiliations: The College of New Jersey (US)
University of La Verne (US)
ORCID: Borders, Ashley
Liang, Christopher T. H.
Venue: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 2011-04
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Pages: 125-133
ISSN: 1077-341X (ISSN-L)
1939-0106
1099-9809
DOI: 10.1037/a0023357
OpenAlex: W2020515399
Cited by: 147
References: 78
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 22.42
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: rumination, perceived ethnic discrimination, emotional distress, aggression, hostility, anger, depressive symptoms, ethnic minorities, coping strategies, mediation, racial discrimination
MeSH terms: Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Aggression, Anger, Depression, Ethnicity, Female, Hostility, Humans, Male, Perception, Prejudice, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Social Perception, Stress, Psychological, Thinking, Young Adult

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