Third Space: The Need for Multiracial College Student Groups at University Counseling Centers

Narvaez, Rayna C.; Kivlighan, Dennis M.

doi:10.1080/87568225.2019.1646621

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“…Our findings also align with qualitative research on multiracial college students, who express racial microaggressions and discrimination (Harris, 2017b; Kellogg & Liddell, 2012). Importantly, although these findings are preliminary, they offer support for recent calls for services that provide targeted, specific support to multiracial college students (Narvaez & Kivlighan, 2021) and for additional research that focuses on nonbinary youth of color (Dunham & Olson, 2016).…”

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confidence: 63%

Understanding nonbinary college students’ experiences on college campuses: An exploratory study of mental health, campus involvement, victimization, and safety.

Marx¹,

Maffini²,

Peña³

2024

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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Limited research has explored the experiences of nonbinary college students. Using a national sample of college students from the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA), we compared experiences of college students in terms of their campus safety, mental health, and involvement in extracurricular activities. Results reveal complexities of nonbinary students' experiences. Nonbinary students reported feeling less safe on and around campus and were more likely to be verbally threatened, stalked, and sexually assaulted than their peers. In terms of mental health indicators, nonbinary students reported significantly worse outcomes than their peers. Nonbinary students were also significantly less likely to be involved in extracurricular activities. Among nonbinary students, Black nonbinary students reported less safety, higher stress, and greater suicidality than White nonbinary students, and multiracial nonbinary students were more likely to be stalked than their White nonbinary peers. In terms of campus involvement, multiracial nonbinary students were more likely to volunteer than White nonbinary students. On the whole, this study suggests that nonbinary college students' experiences differ from their peers' in terms of greater reports of victimization, poorer mental health, and less involvement on campus, with important racial differences. Those who work with college students should ensure that their services support and affirm nonbinary identities and should work to push back on superficial changes that do not address the racist, cis-heteropatriarchal conditions that give rise to such outcomes.

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Understanding nonbinary college students’ experiences on college campuses: An exploratory study of mental health, campus involvement, victimization, and safety.

Marx¹,

Maffini²,

Peña³

2024

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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“…maladaptive behaviors (Franco & Carter, 2019;Goings et al, 2018)) but also development of resilience mechanisms (Yoo et al, 2016) to adapt and thrive in spite of those risks. Promoting community-or school-based "third spaces" (Gabriel et al, 2022;Narvaez & Kivlighan, 2021) places that allow young Multiracial people to safely explore and discuss their experiences with race among caring peers and adultscould be one example of adapting general CDC strategies to better serve the Multiracial population. Similar peer support programs could also be made available to serve parents of Multiracial children, who may be unfamiliar with the social challenges of growing up as Multiracial in a monocentric society.…”

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confidence: 99%

Racial Differences in Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Physical, Mental, and Behavioral Health

Lam-Hine

Riddell

Bradshaw

et al. 2023

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Introduction: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poor adulthood health, with individuals experiencing multiple ACEs at greatest risk. Multiracial people have high mean ACEs scores and elevated risk of several outcomes, but are infrequently the focus of health equity research. This study aimed to determine whether this group should be targeted for prevention efforts. Methods: We analyzed Waves 1 (1994-95), 3 (2001-02), and 4 (2008-09) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 12,372) in 2023, estimating associations between four or more ACEs and physical (metabolic syndrome, hypertension, asthma), mental (anxiety, depression), and behavioral (suicidal ideation, drug use) outcomes. We estimated risk ratios for each outcome in modified Poisson models with a race x ACEs interaction, adjusted for hypothesized confounders of the ACE-outcome relationships. We used the interaction contrast to estimate excess cases per 1,000 individuals for each group relative to Multiracial participants. Results: Excess case estimates of asthma were significantly smaller for White (-123 cases, 95% CI: -251, -4), Black (-141, 95% CI: -285, -6), and Asian (-169, 95% CI: -334, -7) participants compared to Multiracial participants. Black (-100, 95% CI: -189, -10), Asian (-163, 95% CI: -247, -79) and Indigenous (-144, 95% CI: -252, -42) participants had significantly fewer excess cases of and weaker (p < 0.001) relative scale association with anxiety compared to Multiracial participants. Conclusions: Adjusted associations between ACEs and asthma or anxiety appear stronger for Multiracial people than other groups. ACEs are universally harmful but may contribute disproportionately to morbidity in this population.

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“…Racial identity invalidation refers to "experiences wherein others deny a multiracial person's identity or impose an identity onto them with which they do not identify" (M. Franco et al, 2021, p. 2). Racial identity invalidation impacts social relationships and selfperceptions (Cardwell, 2021); it can also be perpetuated by immediate and extended family (Atkin & Jackson, 2021;Franco & Carter, 2019;Nadal et al, 2013), and poses risks for negative affect, depression, anxiety, and feelings of racial homelessness and loneliness (Coleman & Carter, 2007;M. G. Franco & O'Brien, 2018;Jackson et al, 2012).…”

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Storytelling for Asian–White multiracial American college students’ racial identity.

Sonoda,

Garrison

2023

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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This pilot study aims to explore how participatory digital storytelling can be used as an intervention to address race-based stress stemming from White supremacy and monoracism and describe the potential experiential effects on racial identity among Asian-White multiracial American college students. Specifically, we employed testimonio, or a liberation psychology-informed approach in a sample of 10 Asian-White multiracial American college students. The intervention consisted of four group sessions: (a) orienting (overview of liberation psychology and storytelling), (b) creating (self-reflection on personal stories and group discussion), (c) narrating (story sharing and filming), and (d) reflecting (watching and reacting to digital stories). Using reflective thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2021), we categorized 10 participants' stories into four themes reflecting Asian-White multiracial identity statuses: (a) identity invalidation, (b) identity justification, (c) identity validation, and (d) identity integration. Implications for psychological and educational practices, ideas for advocacy, and suggestions for research are discussed.

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Third Space: The Need for Multiracial College Student Groups at University Counseling Centers

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Understanding nonbinary college students’ experiences on college campuses: An exploratory study of mental health, campus involvement, victimization, and safety.

Understanding nonbinary college students’ experiences on college campuses: An exploratory study of mental health, campus involvement, victimization, and safety.

Racial Differences in Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Physical, Mental, and Behavioral Health

Storytelling for Asian–White multiracial American college students’ racial identity.

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