Literature Review #3
Summary:
This study investigates how factors like Socioeconomic Status and hopelessness can affect depression and anxiety. This study focuses on African Americans attending a university in the Midwestern region in the United States. Throughout the study, the authors explain how African Americans are worse off than white Americans in terms of poverty and income.
Author:
Temilola Salami works in the Department of Psychology at Sam Houston State University. She is an assistant professor and has been working there since 2017. Temilola Salami has completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Rheeda Walker is a Professor at Florida State University. She also has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and she specializes in African American mental health. Both authors are well-knowledged regarding mental health.
Key Terms:
Socioeconomic Status (SES) - the social standing or class of an individual or group
Hopelessness - a dimension of cognitive vulnerability, the expectation that only negative events will occur, that positive events will not occur, and that one cannot control the occurrence of such events
Quotes:
"psychological symptoms may be more debilitating for African Americans than for European Americans and that African Americans who experience depression or anxiety symptoms are less likely to improve from treatment" (Salami 276).
"persons from underrepresented groups experience “minority stress” due to identification with a stigmatized group that has been historically the target of discrimination" (Salami 284).
"African Americans at PWIs reported experiencing daily forms of racism that included verbal expressions of prejudice, glaring looks, and problems with interpersonal exchange" (Salami 284).
Value:
This article will help me analyze how race affects the mental health of college students. It will help me understand if people of different races are equally affected by mental health disorders, or if there is a race that is disproportionately affected and why.
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