Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
Coping with Discrimination: Co-Ruminators and Their Confidants
- 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