@article{2bef5a2e66644a0baf33007bf96d6dee,
title = "Mental Health Outcomes of Discrimination among College Students on a Predominately White Campus: A Prospective Study",
abstract = "Racial discrimination is a social stressor harmful to mental health. In this paper, we explore the links between mental health and interpersonal discrimination-related social events, exposure to vicarious racism via social media, and rumination on racial injustices using a daily diary design. We utilize data from a racially diverse sample of 149 college students with 1,489 unique time observations at a large, predominantly white university. Results show that interpersonal discrimination-related social events predicted greater self-reported anger, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and loneliness both daily and on average over time. Vicarious racism from day to day was associated with increased anxiety symptoms. In contrast, rumination was not associated with negative mental health outcomes. These findings document an increased day-to-day mental health burden for minority students arising from frustrating and alienating social encounters experienced individually or learned about vicariously.",
keywords = "college students, interpersonal discrimination, mental health, rumination, stress process, vicarious racism",
author = "Jochman, {Joseph C.} and Cheadle, {Jacob E.} and Goosby, {Bridget J.} and Cara Tomaso and Chelsea Kozikowski and Timothy Nelson",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by Grant P2CHD042849 awarded to the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Funding Information: Research Center affiliate at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research emphasis involves identifying the biosocial pathways linking the accumulation of social marginalization and discrimination exposures to racial inequities in health over the life course and across generations. Her current focus integrates biomarkers and innovative biometric technology with population-based, sociological, and experimental models to examine how exposures to various dimensions of race-specific stressors are associated with upregulation of physiologic and behavioral stress responses dynamically and in real time. She is a codirector of the Life in Frequencies Health Disparities (LifeHD) Research Lab with Jacob Cheadle. Her research has been supported by various funders, including the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She holds an MA in sociology and a PhD in sociology and demography from the Pennsylvania State University. Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by Grant P2CHD042849 awarded to the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin by Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} SAGE Publications Inc.. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1177/2378023119842728",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "5",
journal = "Socius",
issn = "2378-0231",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
}