Racial Group Identity, Psychosocial Resources, and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Ethnic Heterogeneity among Black Americans

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ida,Aya Kimura (Author) and André Christie-Mizell,C. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012 Jan
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Sociological Focus
    Journal Title Details:
    45(1) : 41-62
    ISBN:
    0038-0237
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, African Americans, Psychology, Caribbean Americans, Race identity, Social Networks, and Mental depression
    Notes:
    Uses data from the National Survey of American Life to investigate explore ethnic heterogeneity among black Americans, with a sample of 2,953 African Americans and 1,140 Caribbean Blacks. For African Americans black group evaluation, self-esteem, and mastery reduce depressive symptomatology. For Caribbean Blacks racial identity and psychosocial resources were all directly and inversely related to depressive symptoms.

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