APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Racial Microaggressions and Depression: Comparing Frameworks Between Ethnicities

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cross-Cutting Theme Poster - Psychology of Inequality

  • Reynold Richard Samoranos
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Jennifer Quan
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Nassa Jumpholwong
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Sneha Bentley
    University of California, Santa Cruz

Abstract

This study sought to validate the relationship between racial microaggressions and depression within a cognitive framework used by other stressor to depression models. This relationship, mediated by stress, was compared between White students, non-Asian students of color, and Asian students. The partial mediation was significant for all students of color.

Depression

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