Racial identity buffers African American women from body image problems and disordered eating

LB Watson, JR Ancis, DN White… - Psychology of Women …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of our study was to extend tenets of objectification theory to a sample of 278
undergraduate African American women. We hypothesized that internalized multiculturally …

Identity as resistance: Identity formation at the intersection of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation

A Cerezo, M Cummings, M Holmes… - Psychology of women …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Although the concept of intersectionality has gained widespread attention in psychological
research, there remains a significant gap related to the impact of intersectionality on identity …

Race-related stress, racial identity attitudes, and mental health among Black women

HL Jones, WE Cross Jr… - Journal of Black …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined whether racial identity attitudes moderate the relationship between
racist stress events, racist stress appraisal, and mental health. One hundred eighteen …

Toward the development of the stereotypic roles for Black women scale

AJ Thomas, KMC Witherspoon… - Journal of Black …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Preliminary findings on the validation of the Stereotypic Roles for Black Women Scale
(SRBWS) are presented. A sample of 186 African American women took the SRBWS along …

Negative identity experiences of bisexual and other non-monosexual people: A qualitative report

CE Flanders, M Robinson, MM Legge… - Journal of gay & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we report experiences that bisexual and other nonmonosexual people
perceive as negative or threatening toward their sexual identity that may relate to mental …

The price of strength: Black college women's perspectives on the strong Black woman stereotype

LM West, RA Donovan, AR Daniel - Women & therapy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Black feminist scholars posit that the Strong Black Woman stereotype (SBW) is a compelling
image that depicts Black women as strong, independent, and self-sacrificing. Research …

“It's killing us!” Narratives of Black adults about microaggression experiences and related health stress

JM Hall, B Fields - Global qualitative nursing research, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Perceived racism contributes to persistent health stress leading to health disparities. African
American/Black persons (BPs) believe subtle, rather than overt, interpersonal racism is …

Gendered racism and depression among Black women: Examining the roles of social support and identity.

MK Jones, S Leath, IH Settles, D Doty… - Cultural diversity and …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Black women's experiences of gendered racism have implications for their mental
health. The present study tested the associations between gendered racism, social support …

The social psychological costs of racial segmentation in the workplace: A study of African Americans' well-being

TA Forman - Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2003 - JSTOR
Although several studies have documented how social-structural constraints impair
psychological functioning, few have considered how race-related structural constraints …

The relationship between racial identity status attitudes, racism-related coping, and mental health among Black Americans.

J Forsyth, RT Carter - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
To date, few studies have examined how different strategies for coping with racism affect the
mental health of Black Americans, and none have explored how racial identity status …