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© 2003 American Public Health Association
RACIAL/ETHNIC BIAS AND HEALTH |
Samuel Noh is with the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Health and Social Policy, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Violet Kaspar is with the Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health–Clarke Site, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Samuel Noh, PhD, Institute for Health and Social Policy, University of Akron, 247 Olin Hall, Akron, OH 44325-1905 (e-mail: snoh{at}uakron.edu), or to Violet Kaspar, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 250 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada (e-mail: violet_kaspar{at}camh.net).
The authors evaluated the effects of cultural norms and social contexts on coping processes involved in dealing with perceived racial discrimination.
Cross-sectional data derived from personal interviews with Korean immigrants residing in Toronto were analyzed. Among the respondents, active, problem-focused coping styles were more effective in reducing the impacts on depression of perceived discrimination, while frequent use of passive, emotion-focused coping had debilitating mental health effects.
The present findings lend greater support to a social contextual explanation than to a cultural maintenance explanation of coping processes. They also suggest that, when empowered with sufficient social resources, racial minority individuals of diverse cultural heritages are more likely to confront than to accept racial bias.
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