{"id":4333,"date":"2010-01-06T01:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2010-01-06T01:28:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:28:15","slug":"biracial-self-identification-impact-on-trait-anxiety-social-anxiety-and-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4333","title":{"rendered":"Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/content~db=all~content=a787974168\" target=\"_blank\">Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t775653653\" target=\"_blank\">Identity<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 7, Issue 2<br \/>\nMay 2007<br \/>\npages 103 &#8211; 114<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1080\/15283480701326018<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Victoria H. Coleman<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M. M. Carter<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-one Biracial participants were assessed on measures of depression, trait anxiety, and social anxiety to ascertain if their racial identity choice impacted their scores on these psychological measures. Societal pressure to identify as monoracial was also measured to determine if the various racial identity groups perceived these pressures differently and if these pressures were related to the reported quality of psychological functioning. Results indicated that a validated Biracial identity may serve as a protective factor for anxiety and depressive symptoms, whereas Biracial individuals who consider their race to be meaningless or fluid based on situational factors reported significantly higher levels of depression and trait anxiety symptoms than other Biracial individuals. The latter group also reported the least pressure from family to identify as monoracial. Societal pressure from peers to identify as monoracial was found to predict social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation among all Biracial participants<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a787974168~fulltext=713240930\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biracial Self-Identification: Impact on Trait Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Depression Identity Volume 7, Issue 2 May 2007 pages 103 &#8211; 114 DOI: 10.1080\/15283480701326018 \u00a0 Victoria H. Coleman Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C. M. M. Carter Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, D.C. Sixty-one Biracial participants were assessed on measures of depression, trait anxiety, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8],"tags":[1711,1710],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-m-m-carter","tag-victoria-h-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}