Racial Discrimination as Race-Based Trauma, Coping Strategies and Dissociative Symptoms Among Emerging Adults
- Copyright
- 2016
- Published By
- U.S. National Library of Medicine
This journal article examines the concept of racial and ethnic minority individuals experiencing racial discrimination as a psychological trauma by discussing the relation between racial discrimination and dissociation, a common response to trauma exposure. It also examined whether active coping strategies specifically employed to cope with racial discrimination related to less dissociative symptomatology.