Journal
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages 346-359Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00704.x
Keywords
African Americans; coping; depression; motherhood; poverty; rural
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- NICHD NIH HHS [T32 HD007376, P01 HD039667-09, P01 HD039667] Funding Source: Medline
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The current study examines racial discrimination as a predictor of depression in a sample of 414 rural, low-income African American mothers of young children. The potential moderating role of optimism and church-based social support was also examined. Mothers completed questionnaires when their child was 24 months old. Hierarchical regression revealed that mothers' perception of racism was a significant predictor of depression even after controlling for a variety of distal demographic characteristics and environmental stressors. Significant interactions suggested the importance of psychological and social characteristics in understanding maternal depression. Specifically, high levels of optimism and church-based social support buffered mothers from increased depressive symptomology attributable to perceived racism.
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