The Effects of Subtle Racial Discrimination on Mood: Examining the Mediating Role of Cognitive Appraisal for Asian Americans
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kivlighan, Dennis M | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Ahn, Lydia | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Counseling and Personnel Services | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-20T05:31:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-09-20T05:31:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study examined the effects of inducing the cognitive strategies of self or other-blame in response to a racist situation on situational mood with Asian American emerging adults. I manipulated responses to racism using a 2-group (randomized, between-subjects experimental design) to examine differences in self- versus other-blame. Participants watched a vignette about a common subtle racism event and were randomly assigned to the self or other-blame condition. Those in the self-blame condition were assigned a speech task to describe what they could have done to change the situation and those in the other-blame condition were asked to describe how the perpetrator is racist. After the manipulation check, there were 120 total Asian American emerging adults (Mage = 20.04, SD = 2.18; 60.8% female) in the sample; specifically, 100 participants in the other-blame condition and 20 participants in the self-blame condition successfully completed the experimental task. Multiple path analyses were used to examine the effects of the condition (self vs. other-blame) on vocal acoustics and language used during the speech task, and in turn their self-reported anger and depression, while controlling for critical consciousness and prior depression and anger. Vocal pitch mean and range were measured through the software Praat (Boersma & Weenink, 2005) and language words were assessed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Pennebaker et al., 2015), while anger and depression were measured through the Profile of Mood States-Short Form (POMS-SF; Shacham, 1983). Results indicated that those in the other-blame group had greater pitch mean and used more positive emotion words, cognitive mechanism words, and less tentative words. There were no differences in self-reported anger and depression between the two conditions. Implications touched on the importance of racism attributions on speech and language. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/1fhu-7hp7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29201 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Counseling psychology | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Asian American | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Cognitive Appraisal | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Mood | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Racial Discrimination | en_US |
| dc.title | The Effects of Subtle Racial Discrimination on Mood: Examining the Mediating Role of Cognitive Appraisal for Asian Americans | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
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