Abstract：
Ethnic-racial discrimination has pervasive negative effects on Black youth\'s mental health; therefore, it is crucial to identify factors that provide resilience against discrimination. Two promising factors to help youth cope are ethnic-racial identity (how one feels about their ethnicity/race) and shift-and-persist coping (reappraising and accepting an uncontrollable stressor while remaining optimistic about the future). While there is existing scholarship on ethnic-racial identity among Black youth, this work has not yet assessed the impacts of shift-and-persist in this population. Using a sample of 155 Black youth (ages 13-17), the current study examined the interplay between discrimination, ethnic-racial identity, shift-and-persist coping, and internalizing symptoms. Symptoms of depression and anxiety were positively associated with discrimination and negatively associated with shift-and-persist. Significant interactions between discrimination and shift-and-persist predicting both depressive and anxiety symptoms revealed significant negative associations between shift-and-persist and internalizing symptoms at low and average, but not high discrimination levels. Effects are, thus, protective-reactive; the protective effects of shift-and-persist are not significant for youth facing high levels of discrimination. Ethnic-racial identity, surprisingly, was not significantly associated with either depressive or anxiety symptoms, nor did it interact with shift-and-persist as it has in studies of Latinx youth. By understanding the protective benefits of shift-and-persist and ethnic-racial identity in Black youth, during a pivotal period for mental health, we can provide this growing population with tools to lessen the maladaptive outcomes associated with discrimination.
摘要：
种族种族歧视对黑人青年的心理健康具有普遍的负面影响；因此，确定提供抵御歧视能力的因素至关重要。帮助年轻人应对的两个有希望的因素是种族认同（一个人对他们的种族/种族的感觉）和转变和持续的应对（重新评估和接受无法控制的压力源，同时对未来保持乐观）。虽然黑人青年中存在关于种族认同的奖学金，这项工作尚未评估转移和持续对这一人群的影响。使用155名黑人青年（13-17岁）的样本，当前的研究检查了歧视之间的相互作用，种族认同，转变和坚持应对，和内化症状。抑郁和焦虑的症状与歧视呈正相关，与转变和坚持呈负相关。歧视和转移和持续预测抑郁和焦虑症状之间的显着相互作用表明，转移和持续和内化症状在低和平均之间存在显着的负相关，但歧视程度不高。效果是，因此，保护性反应性；对于面临高度歧视的青年来说，转变和坚持的保护作用并不显著。种族认同，令人惊讶的是,与抑郁或焦虑症状无关，它也没有像研究拉丁裔青年那样与转变和坚持互动。通过了解黑人青年的转变和坚持和种族种族认同的保护性益处，在心理健康的关键时期，我们可以为不断增长的人口提供工具，以减轻与歧视相关的适应不良结果。
