Examining Multiracial Pride, Identity-Based Challenges, and Discrimination: An Exploratory Investigation Among Biracial Emerging Adults

The LOVING Study Collaborative

doi:10.1007/s12552-021-09325-4

Examining Multiracial Pride, Identity-Based Challenges, and Discrimination: An Exploratory Investigation Among Biracial Emerging Adults

The LOVING Study Collaborative

Psychology (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

This study investigated the main and interactive effects of identity-based challenges, discrimination, and Multiracial pride on psychological distress in Biracial emerging adults. Additionally, we examined whether these associations may differ by Biracial sub-group (e.g., black–white, Asian–white, Latinx–white, and minority–minority) given their unique racial experiences. Participants were 326 Biracial emerging adults (M_age = 19.57 years old; 75.2% female) recruited from three public universities in the United States for an online survey. For all Biracial groups, identity-based challenges were associated with greater psychological distress. After testing a series of competing multi-group regression models, results indicated that the relations between distress and our predictors: identity-based challenges, discrimination, and Multiracial pride do indeed differ across Biracial sub-group. The most apparent and unique differences were displayed by the black–white Biracial sub-group. These findings highlight identity-based challenges as a unique risk in the Biracial population and suggest that a principled comparison between Biracial sub-groups is necessary to tease apart group-specific associations between these constructs and psychological distress.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	22-38
Number of pages	17
Journal	Race and Social Problems
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-021-09325-4
State	Published - Mar 2022

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a Predoctoral Fellowship provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32-HD07376) through the Carolina Consortium on Human Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to N. Keita Christophe.

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The LOVING Study Collaborative is a research team consisting of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Arizona State University, and the University of Minnesota. In addition to the four named authors, members include: Clarissa Abidog, Abigail K. Gabriel, Richard M. Lee, Christine S. Wu, and Hyung Chol (Brandon) Yoo.

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© 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

Biracial
Discrimination
Pride
Psychological distress
Resilience

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