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COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGIST
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/00110000231220071
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Police brutality; racism-related stress; coping behavior; mental health; college students
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Witnessing online anti-Black police brutality has negative psychological effects on Black Americans, including stress and depressive symptoms. This study found that coping style is the most influential predictor of mental health outcomes for Black undergraduate students grieving police murders of Black Americans. These findings highlight the importance of developing interventions to support grieving Black undergraduate students.
Black Americans' witnessing of online anti-Black police brutality is related to negative psychological outcomes, including stress and depressive symptoms. This study examined the degree to which grief disenfranchisement, social support, and coping style predicted stress, depressive symptoms, and prolonged grief among 189 Black undergraduate students grieving police murders of Black Americans. The students experienced moderate stress, elevated depressive symptoms, and low levels of prolonged grief, and coping style emerged as the most robust predictor of mental health outcomes. Specifically, planning, behavioral disengagement, and ritual-centered coping predicted variance in perceived stress. Additionally, behavioral disengagement explained variance in depressive symptoms; and disenfranchised grief, changes in goals, and collective-centered coping accounted for variance in prolonged grief. These findings may contribute to the development of interventions to support Black undergraduate students as they grieve police murders of Black Americans.
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