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Author: LeShai Renee' Hunt Publisher: ISBN: Category : African American couples Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Research indicated positive correlations between relationship satisfaction and mindfulness among White couples. However, researchers had not examined the relationship between mindfulness and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks who had experienced race-related stress. Race-related stress affects African Americans/Blacks in their daily lives and relationships. The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental study was to investigate the relationship between mindfulness, race-related stress, and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks. Mindfulness relationship theory and Africana womanism were used to guide the study. Survey data were collected from 51 African Americans/Black participants. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that mindfulness was a statistically significant predictor of relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks and race-related stress was not. Findings from the hierarchical moderation regression analyses indicated that race-related stress was a moderator for mindfulness and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks. Findings may be used to facilitate continued exploration of patterns of behavior, social perceptions, and social interactions related to mindfulness, race-related stress, and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks who acknowledge being in a romantic relationship."--Abstract.
Author: LeShai Renee' Hunt Publisher: ISBN: Category : African American couples Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Research indicated positive correlations between relationship satisfaction and mindfulness among White couples. However, researchers had not examined the relationship between mindfulness and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks who had experienced race-related stress. Race-related stress affects African Americans/Blacks in their daily lives and relationships. The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental study was to investigate the relationship between mindfulness, race-related stress, and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks. Mindfulness relationship theory and Africana womanism were used to guide the study. Survey data were collected from 51 African Americans/Black participants. Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that mindfulness was a statistically significant predictor of relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks and race-related stress was not. Findings from the hierarchical moderation regression analyses indicated that race-related stress was a moderator for mindfulness and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks. Findings may be used to facilitate continued exploration of patterns of behavior, social perceptions, and social interactions related to mindfulness, race-related stress, and relationship satisfaction among African Americans/Blacks who acknowledge being in a romantic relationship."--Abstract.
Author: Marjorie A. Nightingale Publisher: ISBN: Category : African American couples Languages : en Pages : 0
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Racism is a public health crisis for African Americans in the United States. Negative racial experiences compounded over the lifespan create a racial trauma resembling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder driving multiple physiological and mental disparities. Racial trauma has been linked with alarming declines in African American marriage, and increasing rates of distressed relational functioning, yet culturally relevant interventions for this population remain elusive. This exploratory study examines the feasibility of utilizing a culturally adapted Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American couple sample. Results show that the treatment was acceptable with significant improvements in relationship distress, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance for couples. Results also show significant reductions in levels of stress, and racial stress for women from pretest to posttest. There were no significant changes in emotional regulation or relationship satisfaction for couples, and no changes in levels of stress or racial stress for men.
Author: Keith E. Whitfield Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 9780787955519 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 0
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Fighting for Your African American Marriage gives you solid solutions to the challenges your marriage faces every day. The book contains a unique perspective and presents the powerful, proven strategies of the highly acclaimed PREP(Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach for helping black couples beat the odds and master the skills that can prevent marital distress and divorce.
Author: Katherine M. Helm Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415892627 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 322
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Love, Intimacy, and the African American Couple lays out specific strategies that clinicians can use in their work with black couples, regardless of the clinician's own race or level of experience.
Author: August Jenkins Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Although there are well-established bidirectional associations between depressive symptoms and martial satisfaction among romantic couples, it is unknown whether this bidirectional association exists among Black couples, specifically, and how the nature of this relation might depend on contextual factors. To address these questions, the current study was designed to assess the prospective associations between depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction over a one-year period in a sample of 168 married or cohabitating heterosexual, Black, romantic couples and to explore moderation of these associations by (a) experiences of discrimination and (b) racial centrality within a dyadic context. Depressive symptoms predicted lower marital satisfaction for self and partner one year later, and wives satisfaction positively predicted husbands satisfaction but not vice versa. Moderation analyses revealed that, for both husbands and wives, ones own experiences of discrimination moderated the effect of ones partners satisfaction on ones own depressive symptoms but that there were different patterns for husbands and wives. Specifically, at high levels of husbands discrimination, the association between wives satisfaction and husbands depressive symptoms was negative, and the association was positive at low levels of husbands discrimination. In contrast, at high levels of wives discrimination, the association between husbands satisfaction and wives depressive symptoms was positive and was negative at low levels of wives discrimination. Wives racial centrality also moderated the effect of wives depressive symptoms on husbands subsequent satisfaction, such that the association between wives depressive symptoms and husbands satisfaction emerged at high, but not at low, levels of wives racial centrality. Findings suggest that practitioners working with African American individuals and couples should attend to the interdependence between spouses mental health and relationship satisfaction and consider the broader social context in which Black individuals and couples are situated to improve both individual and relational well-being.
Author: Stacey Marie Antoinette Jackson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 308
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Scholars within the field of African/Black Psychology argue that racial oppression negatively impacts African American psychological well-being. A large body of research exists supporting the claim that race-related stress is associated with poor mental health outcomes. Some Black psychologists contend that African self-consciousness is central to healthy psychological functioning suggesting that disordered Black personality results from the impact of racism on African Americans’ African self-consciousness. Lastly, when examining the psychosocial development of African American college students’ researchers often make comparisons between student experiences based on Academic Institution. The current study utilized Pearson’s correlations, hierarchical multiple regressions, and an independent samples T-test to investigate the roles that race-related stress, African self-consciousness and Academic Institution have on depression among African American collegians. The sample consisted of 167 Black college students (117 women and 50 males) recruited from a Predominately White institution (PWI) (111 participants) and a Historically Black College/Institution (HBCU) (56 participants). Results revealed total race-related stress and cultural racism significantly predicted depression. Additionally, African self-consciousness (ASCS) moderated the relationship between individual racism and depression such that, higher levels of ASCS eliminated the relationship between individual racism and depression for this sample. These findings suggest the need to further examine the unique impact of cultural, individual and institutional racism on mental health outcomes of African American collegians, along with various factors that influence these relationships. Implications of these findings for university personnel and mental health professionals are identified.
Author: LeShai Renee' Hunt
Author: LeShai Renee' Hunt
Author: Marniece Gordon Johnson
Author: Marjorie A. Nightingale
Author: Melinda Regine Murdock
Author: Darrick Tovar-Murray
Author: Keith E. Whitfield
Author: Katherine M. Helm
Author: August Jenkins
Author: Stacey Marie Antoinette Jackson
Author: Brenda Catherine Lovstuen