Racial Discrimination, Psychological Distress, and Self-Rated Health Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Americans

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 101; no. 9; pp. 1704 - 1713
• Main Authors: KRIEGER, Nancy, KOSHELEVA, Anna, WATERMAN, Pamela D, CHEN, Jarvis T, KOENEN, Karestan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Public Health Association 01.09.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; African Americans - psychology; African Americans - statistics & numerical data; Age; Biological and medical sciences; Black people; Cohort Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology; Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data; Female; General aspects; Health Status; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Immigrants; Immigration; Immigration policy; Investigations; Labor Unions - statistics & numerical data; Male; Meat processing; Medical sciences; Mental disorders; Mental Health; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Noncitizens; Population; Poverty; Prejudice; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Racial discrimination; Research and Practice; Self Report; Sociodemographics; Socioeconomic Factors; Stress, Psychological - ethnology; Stress, Psychological - etiology; Studies; Variables; Working class; United States > US; Human; Discrimination; Self evaluation; Psychological distress; Health; Race; Ethnic group; African American

We investigated associations among racial discrimination, psychological distress, and self-rated health among US-born and immigrant Black Americans. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort of employed working-class Black Americans (193 US-born, 275 foreign-born). Both US-born and foreign...