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We report three studies to examine how culture may influence people's tendency to see meaning in stressful experiences (MISE), as well as their coping responses. Using a newly developed MISE scale with established measurement invariance across both cultures, we found that Chinese participants were more likely than Euro-Canadians to see meaning in stressful experiences (Studies 1 and 2), to adopt acceptance and positive reframing coping styles (Study 1), and to respond more positively to the COVID-19 pandemic (Study 2). To establish a causal link between MISE and coping, we primed MISE in Study 3 with Chinese participants and found an increase in resilient coping. The research highlights the important roles of culture and meaning making in coping. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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On its way to liberalism and, above all, in relation to the difficulties that characterized this moment, the 19th century was fundamental in the configuration of the societies of Mexican cities and, in particular, of peripheral neighborhoods. This process is discussed in this article from a phenomenological and hermeneutic position and with ethnographic and historiographic tools. It considers the cases of the vice-royal neighborhoods of Analco and La Luz in the baroque city of Puebla. Historical factors are described that shaped its processes during a public health emergency. It is shown that the everyday life of its inhabitants had a dual character, mediated by religiosity and science. Thus, the streets functioned and still do function as the neighborhood center, the symbolic site of this syncretism and the site for neighborhood tactics in the protective search for a sense of identity. Also, the eventual and the permanent are found in the streets, where space becomes where one is and lives, as the symbol of attachment and belonging. The relevance of the text lies in the fact that it offers a privileged testimonial position for understanding what was done and what was understood during a disruptive event like COVID-19 from a social and collective lens. In addition, this text contributes to documenting the origin of new elements that add to existing immaterial heritage. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR] Por el tránsito al liberalismo, pero sobre todo por la actuación ante las calamidades que caracterizaron al siglo XIX, este resultó determinante en la configuración de las sociedades de las urbes mexicanas y en particular de sus barrios periféricos. Desde una postura fenomenológica-hermenéutica, y con herramientas tanto etnográficas como historiográficas, en este artículo se discute sobre ello. Tomando como referentes los barrios virreinales de Analco y La Luz, en la barroca ciudad de Puebla, se descubre los elementos históricos que condicionan su proceder ante una emergencia sanitaria. Se muestra también que la cotidianidad de sus habitantes tuvo un carácter dual, puesto que estaba mediada por la religiosidad y la ciencia. Así, la calle funcionaba y funciona como centralidad barrial, lugar simbólico de este sincretismo y sitio para las tácticas vecinales en la búsqueda protectora de su sentido identitario. También en la calle se encuentran lo eventual y lo permanente;deviene espacio donde se es y se habita, símbolo del arraigo y la pertenencia. La relevancia del texto estriba en que se está ante la inmejorable posición testimonial para comprender lo que se realizó y lo que significó, desde la óptica social o colectiva, un evento disruptivo como la covid-19;asimismo, este texto contribuye a documentar el origen de nuevos elementos que se suman al patrimonio inmaterial existente. (Spanish) [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales is the property of FLACSO Ecuador (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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In the first months of 2020, the whole world was affected by the restrictions caused by the authorities' attempts to stop the spread of SarsCov2 as far as possible. Initially, the most effective measure was quarantine, which could slow the spread of the virus. In Romania, the first case of Covid19 was confirmed on 23 February 2020, and after a period of hesitation, the national authorities imposed the quarantine on 15 March, i.e., a series of restrictions on the movement of persons and on participation in events involving more than eight persons. Obviously, the introduction of this special regime for the movement of persons affected all areas of social and economic life, including its vital branches, such as the industrial and educational activity. Of course, under these conditions, the first temptation of any ethnologist was to observe the transformations of the rhythms of life, practicing a kind of armchair ethnography and transforming into the observed "field" even their own home, their own life or the lives of those close to them, but also what came to them from the outside world via online. In contrast to these approaches, this paper studies several cases where, through contractual obligations, the ethnologist had to do the field in the classical sense of the term, i.e. to observe real (not virtual) communities, located far away (even geographically), and to participate in their social and cultural life. The constraints imposed by quarantine practically forced ethnological fieldwork to reinvent itself, making researchers reflect on the criteria for selecting their informants under the new conditions, on the manner of interacting with them, on the logistics involved in producing interviews and, last but not least, on the ethical implications of approaches of this kind. The remote field experiences of two projects were presented and analyzed: Educational and Networking Tools on Development of Authentic Performance for Professional Integration - PAN and Colec.ie digitala a patrimoniului alimentar romanesc.i transfer spre societate - FOODie. Analyzing in particular the interviews conducted in the FOODie project, the paper highlights a number of advantages of remote fieldwork, such as: the possibility to overcome quarantine restrictions, the possibility to make a quality video recording, the openings of a collaborative ethnology. A number of difficulties of this type of remote research are also highlighted, such as: communication difficulties due to lack of direct interaction, internet signal fluctuation problems, difficulties in understanding some aspects due to ignorance of the informant's living space.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography (IE), edited by Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, is an important addition to the field, bringing a breadth of disciplines, contexts, and empirical foci together with crucial interventions from seasoned Institutional Ethnographers (IEers). IE as orthodoxy There is a fundamental tension that runs through the IE field, coming up at conferences and in informal discussions: I how to balance defining IE and its boundaries clearly while still encouraging creativity and openness i . Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography: edited by Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 eBook £95.50, Hardcover £119.99 561pp. IE's interdisciplinarity can be exciting and informative, but there is a tension between providing enough detailed description of one's own area of research while also forefronting the IE analytical and/or methodological points which are often of most interest to the IE reader. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of International Journal of Social Research Methodology is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives around the world. For Asian Americans, the disruptions due to illness, as well as isolation and economic insecurity, have been compounded by the rise in anti-Asian racism. In response, the Asian American Journal of Psychology has curated a special issue on Asian America and the COVID-19 Pandemic, spread over two issues. Part I showcased a collection of articles that described the impact of the pandemic and the rise in anti-Asian violence on Asian Americans, guiding readers through the protective factors that helped attenuate the negative impact of the pandemic. In this Part II of the special issue, we bring together a collection of articles that focus on the experiences of Asian Americans during the pandemic. The first set of articles explores the differences in impact when anti-Asian racism is experienced in myriad ways (direct, vicarious, etc.). The second set of articles investigates the impact of anti-Asian violence on the identity development of Asian Americans, from identity exploration to the types of ethnic-racial socialization practiced by the parents. The last set of articles provides not only a review of the research on supporting the mental health of Asian Americans but also provides guidelines for practitioners and nonpractitioners moving forward. Taken together, these articles bring together a wide range of articles that explore the lasting impact of the pandemic but also offer glimpses of what the future might hold for Asian American mental health and racial-ethnic identity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement What is the public significance of this article?-Asian Americans have had to struggle with not just the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but also contend with the rise in anti-Asian racism. The special issue on Asian America and the COVID-19 Pandemic spotlights the impact of these struggles. This article provides a summary and introduction to Part II of this special double issue. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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Recent police brutality and related violence against Black people, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has further evidenced the disproportionate impact of systemic racism in our institutions and across society. In the United States, the alarming mortality rates for Black people due to police violence and COVID-19 related deaths are clear demonstrations of inequities within a long history of disparate outcomes. In understanding systemic racism, it is essential to consider how it is embedded within society and across socio-ecological levels. The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) is used to examine conditions within the environment that maintain systemic racism, including within our field and discipline. A behavioral-community approach for examining racism aids in determining points of intervention across multiple ecological levels that may contribute to behavior change, including with behaviorists. The science of behavior is well-suited to help examine the contingencies governing behaviors within and across systems, which is pivotal for addressing operant behaviors to influence long-term behavior change. This paper calls on the behavioral community to address systemic racism within our environments and systems of influence to contribute to a more equitable community. Systemic racism, including within the context of anti-Blackness, is examined by considering behavior change strategies that can be supported by behaviorists across socio-ecological levels. Tools for collaborative action are provided to support behaviorists in demonstrating the skills needed across a continuum of behaviors from allyship to anti-racism to actively address systemic racism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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People feel a wide range of emotions. In many psychological traditions, emotions are defined as primarily emerging from within the individual, even if influenced by external factors (e.g., approval from other people). This definition is consistent with an independent self-construal. However, in some contexts, emotions are understood to have more interdependent characteristics that can be shared with other people and that arise from social contexts and collective, shared situations. We define the lay theory of interdependence of emotion as the perception that emotional experience or its causes and consequences are shared with other people. Interdependence of emotion can be conceptualized along a spectrum, rather than as categorical. Additionally, the degree to which people understand emotions as interdependent likely varies by cultural context. In this article, we review studies that have investigated this lay theory of emotions across cultures, focusing on function. We suggest that people from non-WEIRD cultures (i.e., cultures that are not Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) are more likely than others to experience emotions as interdependent. Next, we highlight examples of this interdependence, focusing on two specific emotions: happiness and awe, which may have both independent and interdependent elements. The mechanisms and functions of the lay theory of interdependence of emotions are discussed using the example of a current collective threat, COVID-19. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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The present study investigated the psychological effects of racism on East Asians and East Asian Americans (EAEAAs) living in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic using a mixed-methods approach. First, using an autoregressive cross-lagged panel analysis, we investigated the relations between COVID-19 racism, internalized racism, psychological distress, and social isolation among EAEAAs. We then examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on EAEAAs using consensual qualitative research-modified. Quantitative findings showed that COVID-19 racism at Time 1 was associated with greater subsequent psychological distress, and COVID-19 racism at Time 2 was associated with greater levels of subsequent psychological distress and social isolation at Time 3, suggesting that COVID-19 racism predicted psychological distress and social isolation over time. Qualitative findings highlighted the prevalence of racism towards EAEAAs and the associated negative consequences. Findings demonstrate that EAEAAs living in the United States are at great risk due to the detrimental effects of racism during COVID-19. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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The elaborated account of the metacontingency explicitly incorporated the role of antecedent events (with the concept of cultural milieu or cultural-organizational milieu) and verbal behavior (clearly related to what was termed group-rule generation). We argue that the cultural milieu encompasses two functionally distinct entities: antecedent environmental variables affecting the culturant (the organization members' activities)-what we termed cultural antecedents;and variables affecting the selecting environment or the consumer practices (members external to the organization responsible for producing cultural consequences)-what we termed selecting environment variables. Besides that, we propose that group-rule generation is not an element of a metacontingency distinct from the culturant, but that it describes verbal components of the interlocking behavioral contingencies;and that these verbal components are not present in all culturants but are especially important in more complex ones. We illustrate this conceptual analysis with reference to a COVID-19 psychological support project undertaken at a public university in Brazil and conclude by suggesting theoretical and methodological implications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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In the first months of 2020, the whole world was affected by the restrictions caused by the authorities' attempts to stop the spread of SarsCov2 as far as possible. Initially, the most effective measure was quarantine, which could slow the spread of the virus. In Romania, the first case of Covid19 was confirmed on 23 February 2020, and after a period of hesitation, the national authorities imposed the quarantine on 15 March, i.e., a series of restrictions on the movement of persons and on participation in events involving more than eight persons. Obviously, the introduction of this special regime for the movement of persons affected all areas of social and economic life, including its vital branches, such as the industrial and educational activity. Of course, under these conditions, the first temptation of any ethnologist was to observe the transformations of the rhythms of life, practicing a kind of armchair ethnography and transforming into the observed "field" even their own home, their own life or the lives of those close to them, but also what came to them from the outside world via online. In contrast to these approaches, this paper studies several cases where, through contractual obligations, the ethnologist had to do the field in the classical sense of the term, i.e. to observe real (not virtual) communities, located far away (even geographically), and to participate in their social and cultural life. The constraints imposed by quarantine practically forced ethnological fieldwork to reinvent itself, making researchers reflect on the criteria for selecting their informants under the new conditions, on the manner of interacting with them, on the logistics involved in producing interviews and, last but not least, on the ethical implications of approaches of this kind. The remote field experiences of two projects were presented and analyzed: Educational and Networking Tools on Development of Authentic Performance for Professional Integration - PAN and Colecţie digitală a patrimoniului alimentar românesc si transfer spre societate - FOODie. Analyzing in particular the interviews conducted in the FOODie project, the paper highlights a number of advantages of remote fieldwork, such as: the possibility to overcome quarantine restrictions, the possibility to make a quality video recording, the openings of a collaborative ethnology. A number of difficulties of this type of remote research are also highlighted, such as: communication difficulties due to lack of direct interaction, internet signal fluctuation problems, difficulties in understanding some aspects due to ignorance of the informant's living space.
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Observando as elaborações dos Canela Apanjekra sobre a pandemia da covid-19 e as estratégias adotadas por eles para conter a doença, nos primeiros meses da disseminação do vírus, este ensaio estabelece um paralelo entre os rituais de reclusão indígenas e os protocolos de distanciamento social. Ao fazê-lo, coloca em primeiro plano as noções nativas sobre saúde, indicando como a produção de corpos saudáveis depende da constante renovação das pessoas a partir do controle da ação de agentes não humanos por meio de fechamentos ritualizados. Por fim, o ensaio contrasta a temporalidade envolvida nos rituais de reclusão com o debate sobre o "retorno à normalidade" com um eventual fim da crise sanitária, questionando como as crises planetárias colocadas pelo antropoceno evocam uma concepção mais sistêmica de fim de (um certo) mundo.Alternate :Observing the Canela Apanjekra elaborations about the covid-19 pandemic and their strategies to contain the disease during the first months of virus dissemination, this essay draws a parallel between indigenous seclusion rituals and social distancing protocols. In doing so, it foregrounds native notions of health, indicating how the production of healthy bodies depends on the constant renovation of personhood through the control of the actions of non-human agents through ritualized closings. The essay also contrasts the temporality involved in seclusion rituals with the debate on the "return to normalcy" after a possible end to the sanitary crisis, enquiring how the planetary crisis posed by antropocene evokes a more systemic conception of the end of (a certain) world.
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In this paper, it is exploring the discourses on sexuality that, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, are reproduce and circulate on Instagram accounts of six Argentine sexologists who do sex education and publicize their professional work through these social media. From digital ethnographic explorations we analyze how these professionals construct a way of narrating the knowledge of sexology on the internet;deploy pedagogical activities that position them as new references in the field of national sexology and configure a network of "instagramers" dedicated to sex education.
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On Sep 5-8, 2021, the 18th ISFNR congress was held in the beautiful city of Zagreb in Croatia. The title and theme of the congress was Encountering emotions in folk narrative and folklife. Due to Covidl9 restrictions the congress had been postponed for a year and went online. Our hosts and organizers where the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, who virtually connected us all with excellent planning, technical support and engaging and informative videos, all of which evoked a strong sense of connection from our homes around the world to Zagreb's landscape and lore.
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The purpose of this paper is to show the strategies and motivations that students of the Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana have used to continue their studies in the context of the social confinement derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced students to continue their studies by electronic means. Hence the need to investigate the students within this pandemic context;what and how they are doing their studies is fundamental in terms of prospective since it will allow improving their processes in the future since a mixed modality scenario has even been proposed for higher education once the confinement ends. Thus, an exploratory study was carried out, using a multi-method perspective, under an ethnographic approach;for this purpose, quantitative and qualitative techniques were used, such as surveys, observation records, and semi-structured interviews directed to a sample of a total of 82 students of the above-mentioned institution at the undergraduate, masters and doctorate levels. In this sense, elements of importance were found for the management of school activities in this rupture of normality, since the main strategy identified was the diversification of activities and fundamental motivations, the support of the family to continue studies in confinement, which has given us a prospective vision in which the institutional support should be oriented to know and take into account the socio-cultural contexts of their students in order to establish an efficiently mixed modality.Alternate :El presente trabajo tiene como finalidad evidenciar las estrategias y motivaciones que los estudiantes de la Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana han empleado para continuar sus estudios en el contexto del confinamiento social derivado de la pandemia por el COVID-19, lo cual obligó a los estudiantes a continuar sus estudios por medios electrónicos. De ahí la necesidad de investigar sobre los estudiantes dentro de este contexto pandémico;el qué y cómo están realizando sus estudios es fundamental en términos de prospectiva, puesto que permitirá mejorar sus procesos en un futuro, en tanto que se hasta se ha planteado un escenario de modalidad mixta para la educación superior toda vez que el confinamiento termine. Siendo así, es que se realizó un estudio de tipo exploratorio, empleando una perspectiva multi-metódica, bajo un enfoque etnográfico;para ello se han empleado técnicas cuantitativas y cualitativas, como: encuestas, registros de observación y entrevistas semiestructuradas dirigidas a una muestra de un total de 82 alumnos de la institución señalada de los niveles de licenciatura, maestría y doctorado. En este sentido, se encontraron elementos de importancia para el manejo de actividades escolares en esta ruptura de la normalidad, pues se identificaron como principal estrategia la diversificación de actividades y motivaciones fundamental el apoyo de la familia para continuar los estudios en confinamiento, lo cual nos ha planteado una visión prospectiva en la cual el apoyo institucional se debe orientar en conocer y tomar en cuenta los contextos socio-culturales de sus estudiantes a fin de lograr establecer una modalidad mixta eficiente.
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, Routledge: London, 2020;178 pp., ISBN 978-0-367-25228-1, €120 (hbk) The COVID-19 pandemic - while introducing an array of profound challenges to once stable social institutions - highlights the urgent need for the development of rapid forms of social research techniques to comprehend such events and, most critically, to guide effective intervention. Sangaramoothy and Kroeger, as part of their respective roles in the CDC, have worked together in developing, planning and carrying out several important REAs. They have also delivered trainings on REA to CDC staff, state and local health department personnel, and practitioners in non-governmental and community-based organisations, which has culminated in the practical focus of the book and its core community-engagement dimension. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Irish Journal of Sociology is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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The United States (U.S.) has a long history of racism and xenophobia, especially around infectious outbreaks. Recently, the associations of COVID-19 to China and Chinese people have been reflected in a surge of anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes. Therefore, the present study examines the perceived change in everyday racism among Asians in the U.S. during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study used self-report surveys to assess the perceptions of everyday racism before and during the pandemic among Asians, Latinxs, and Whites residing in the U.S. We tested a 3 (race [Asians vs. Latinxs vs. Whites]) x 2 (perceptions [before vs. during pandemic]) analysis of covariance with repeated measures for perceptions to determine whether there were differences between racial groups for everyday racism before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings strongly indicate that Asians in the U.S. perceived a change in everyday racism during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to Latinxs and Whites. Exploratory findings show that East and Southeast Asians, in particular, experienced the steepest perceived increase in everyday racism. Anti-Asian sentiment seems to have intensified in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, as evident in the rise of everyday racism against Asians. These experiences may serve as additional stressors for Asians in the U.S. during these already distressing times and disproportionately impact East and Southeast Asians. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement The present study suggests that Asians in the United States perceived an influx of everyday racism during the COVID-19 pandemic as compared to Latinxs and Whites. In particular, East and Southeast Asians experienced the steepest increase in racism-related experiences. Overall findings highlight an alarming escalation in everyday exchanges of anti-Asian sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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The beginnings of the interview date back to 2019, the year when we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (Barth 1969). We used this event as a springboard for looking back at the rich professional trajectory of Professor Ulf Hannerz, in which ethnicity and other forms of collective identities play one of the key roles. The interview was started after a lecture by Professor Hannerz, ‘Fifty Years of Diversity Watching’, given at the Department of Ethnology of Charles University in Prague in September 2019, and it was finalised during the COVID-19 pandemic online via e-mailing the questions and answers back and forth between Stockholm and Prague.
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Since coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged at the beginning of 2020, reports of anti-Asian racism have surged, yet little is known in the empirical literature about participants' lived experience of racism during this time. We designed a qualitative, intrinsic, revelatory case study to examine the different types of anti-Asian racism being perpetrated, and the contexts and perpetrators during the first 6 months of COVID-19. We analyzed the online and written responses of 193 self-identified Asian Americans from over 32 states and corroborated their experiences with news articles, journal articles, and reports of anti-Asian hate crimes published during the same period. Our analysis yielded 11 types of racist experiences: (a) No direct personal experience, only vicarious, (b) Stared at, glared at, shunned, (c) Singled out and treated poorly, (d) Indirectly referenced in third person, (e) Was the butt of a racist joke, (f) Blamed for the virus, (g) Stereotyped with racist characterization, (h) Told to go back to an Asian country, (i) Called a racial slur, (j) Hostile verbal assault, and (k) Physically threatened. Regarding the context and perpetrator of anti-Asian racism, our analysis yielded seven subthemes: (a) from friends and family, (b) at school and work, (c) in daily tasks, (d) while commuting, (e) in the socialization of children, (f) in online spaces, and (g) from police and security officers. Our findings showcase the wide range of anti-Asian racism and underscore the need to integrate scientific research with advocacy efforts to enhance awareness of anti-Asian racism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement We designed a qualitative study to examine anti-Asian racism during the first 6 months of COVID-19 in the U.S. We wanted to know what types of racism were being perpetrated, by whom, and in what settings. Our findings revealed a wider range of anti-Asian racism than what has been captured in the scientific literature and advocacy efforts to document Asian American experiences of racism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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The present study examined the extent to which coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) racial discrimination related to life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety in 246 Filipino Americans. The extent to which coping strategy moderated the mediated relationship of COVID-19 racial discrimination via depression and anxiety on life satisfaction was also explored. Findings indicated that Filipino Americans who experienced or witnessed COVID-19 racial discrimination were significantly more likely to experience decreased levels of life satisfaction and increased levels of depression and anxiety. Higher levels of discrimination were significantly related to higher levels of depression which were linked to poorer life satisfaction. Coping strategy moderated the mediated relationship of COVID-19 racial discrimination via depression with life satisfaction. Engagement and disengagement coping responses significantly moderated the link between COVID-19 discrimination with anxiety and depression, respectively. Implications for mental health professionals, study limitations, and future areas of research are additionally provided. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement What is the public significance of this article?-Greater use of overall coping reduced the negative impact of COVID-19-related racial discrimination on life satisfaction among Filipino Americans. Filipino Americans may use engagement and disengagement coping strategies to mitigate the effects of anxiety and depression-related symptoms, respectively, which may be influenced by cultural, Indigenous, and religious factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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COVID-19 restrictions and the social and financial repercussions are negatively affecting the mental health of Australians. Asian Australians may be further at risk of negative mental health outcomes due to the racial discrimination that has emerged during this pandemic. This study used an online questionnaire to assess whether COVID-19-related racial discrimination (firsthand and secondhand), acculturation, and perceived social support predicted psychological distress (depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms) among Asian Australians (n = 113, Mage = 29.82, SDage = 11.96, nonbinary n = 1, female n = 69, male n = 43). Participants perceived high social support and reported moderate amounts of COVID-19-related racial discrimination, as well as moderate cultural preferences for both host and heritage cultures. Multiple regression analyses indicated that (a) social support from significant others and family significantly predicted variance in depressive symptoms, (b) no independent variable was able to significantly predict variance in anxiety, and (c) social support from the family significantly predicted variance in stress. Participants reported mild amounts of depressive symptoms, normal amounts of stress symptoms, and verging amounts of anxiety symptoms that could be considered mild. This research contributes to the wider literature as one of the first studies to focus on Asian Australian mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and to empirically support anecdotal evidence of COVID-19-related racial discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)