Effect of Racial Identity Attitudes on Coping With Race-Related Stress

Race‐Related Trauma

“…Most studies on microaggressions and race‐based trauma and injury have focused on the impact on minority status victims (see Lewis, Cameron, Kim‐Ju, & Meyers, 2020); however, Carter, Roberson, and Johnson's (2020) study is unique in that the target population was White adults who have experienced race‐based traumatic stress. Mirroring findings from the extant literature on racial discrimination, the participants reported both that they had experiences of racial discrimination and that harm had resulted from these experiences.…”

“…Finally, many researchers have argued that moderators and mediators may affect the processes and outcomes of microaggressions and race‐based trauma and injury (Carter, 2007; Clark et al, 1999; Lau & Williams, 2010). In the current issue, both Carter et al (2020) and Lewis et al (2020) examine how racial identity affects the outcomes and coping of participants they studied. Others, like Franco and O'Brien (this issue), have found that the type of discrimination affects negative cardiovascular reactivity in multiracial individuals.…”