Negative Religious Coping as a Mediator Between Perceived Prejudice and Psychological Distress Among African Americans: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

This study examined positive religious coping (e.g., prayer) and negative religious coping (e.g., blaming the Devil) as mediators between perceived prejudice (everyday discrimination, stigma consciousness, perceived invisibility) and psychological distress (depression, anxiety, hostility). Structura...

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Published in:Psychology of religion and spirituality 2019-08, Vol.11 (3), p.257-265
Main Authors: McCleary-Gaddy, Asia T., Miller, Carol T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Anxiety
Black People
Blame
Consciousness
Consciousness States
Content analysis
Coping
Coping Behavior
Counseling
Cultural sensitivity
Discrimination
Distress
Emotions
Female
Hostility
Human
Male
Mental depression
Negative emotions
Prayer
Prejudice
Psychological distress
Religion
Religion & psychology
Stigma
Structural equation modeling
Test Construction
Trauma centers
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Summary:This study examined positive religious coping (e.g., prayer) and negative religious coping (e.g., blaming the Devil) as mediators between perceived prejudice (everyday discrimination, stigma consciousness, perceived invisibility) and psychological distress (depression, anxiety, hostility). Structural equation modeling revealed that negative religious coping fully mediated the relationship between prejudice and psychological distress. Content analysis of participants' descriptions of their experiences with prejudice also showed that negative religious coping significantly mediated the relationship between prejudice and the frequency with which negative emotions were expressed. Positive religious coping did not mediate either analysis. Implications for culturally sensitive counseling interventions are discussed.
ISSN:1941-1022
1943-1562
DOI:10.1037/rel0000228