From Daily Bias to Digital Racism: How Racial Stressors Predict Physical Health Symptoms In African Americans

This study investigated how everyday discrimination, racial cyberaggression, online racial content exposure, and vicarious racism predict physical symptoms among African Americans. Regression analyses showed that discrimination, cyberaggression, and online exposure significantly predicted increased physical symptoms. Results align with the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury Model, highlighting embodied impacts of racial stress.