Summit

2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025

Coping with Discrimination: Co-Ruminators and Their Confidants

Virtual · October 2025

Poster · Social Psychology

  • McKenzie Sedore
    Florida State University
  • Ashley Tudder
    Westchester University
  • Calvin Lai
    Rutgers University

Abstract

Co-rumination research has focused on white adolescents, neglecting diverse contexts and discrimination-specific coping. This study (N=1339) found individuals co-ruminate more with identity-similar confidants and co-rumination predicts various coping strategies, with men showing greater vulnerability to substance use coping at high co-rumination levels.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Racism and Discrimination

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