1. Minority stress and academic outcomes among ethnic minority college students: Anxiety as a mediating mechanism.
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Manzo G, Piña-Watson B, and Kim SY
- Subjects
- Humans, Universities, Female, Male, Texas, Young Adult, Adult, Minority Groups psychology, Minority Groups statistics & numerical data, Adolescent, Surveys and Questionnaires, Ethnic and Racial Minorities psychology, Ethnic and Racial Minorities statistics & numerical data, Students psychology, Students statistics & numerical data, Stress, Psychological psychology, Stress, Psychological ethnology, Anxiety psychology, Anxiety ethnology
- Abstract
Objective: The present study examines the relationship between minority stress and academic outcomes for ethnic minority college students in the U.S. We explore to what extent anxiety functions as a potential mediating mechanism for these relationships. Participants: Data were obtained from 347 undergraduate ethnic minority college students attending a public university in West Texas. Results: Results revealed that minority stress was significantly related to anxiety symptoms when controlling for ethnic minority group membership. Additionally, it was found that anxiety symptoms significantly mediated the relationship between minority stress and major satisfaction, controlling for ethnic minority group membership. Conclusions: This study contributes to the existing psychological literature on ethnic minority college students by highlighting the extent that minority stress is related to certain academic outcomes, taking a step further to investigate anxiety as a mechanism that may explain these relationships.
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- 2024
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