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Racial-Ethnic Stressors
Racial-Ethnic Coping
LGBT Stressors/Coping
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These are experienced as part of day-to-day life, but can cause stress that accumulates over time and leads to an expectation of future racism-related stressors.
What is Daily Racism Microstressors?
100
This strategy involves encouraging youth to avoid behaviors that might confirm discriminatory beliefs or to behave in ways that contradict those beliefs.
What is Active Avoidance?
100
This is the most frequently encountered LGBT coping theme.
What is Preparation for future bias/harassment?
200
These experiences contribute to individuals’ feelings of racism-related stress even if individuals have not experienced discrimination directly (e.g., media portrayals, stereotypes).
What is Collective Discrimination Experiences?
200
This stressor is generally associated with less self-efficacy and greater distress.
What are Avoidance of Stressors?
200
This is the percentage of participants that did not experience any tough times.
What is 20% of participants?
300
This helps combat the well-documented link between racial–ethnic stressors and negative mental health outcomes.
What is Protective Racial-Ethnic Socialization?
300
This involves the behavioral aspect of approach coping strategies by actively engaging with the source of discrimination in the moment.
What is Self-Assertion?
300
These are two factors related LGBT stressors.
What is -Family related difficulties -Others’ views/reactions -Verbal harassment -Lack of expression -Employment discrimination -Friendship difficulties -Confusion -Physical attacks -Relationship Difficulties
400
These are more discrete and distressing instances of direct discrimination that can have lasting effects even if they occur infrequently.
What is Racism-Related Life Events?
400
This communicates to youth a belief that they cannot avoid discrimination and should not react to it.
What is Submissive Strategy?
400
This is one coping theme encountered in LGBT coping mechanisms.
What is -Preparation for future bias/harassment -Caution, guarded, less trusting -Ignore others -Focus on oneself -Taking care of self and problems -Increase in drive towards achievement -Becoming stronger -Benefiting from social support -Prepared to fight -More accepting/understanding -Used experiences to help others