Assessing Racial Microaggression Distress in a Diverse Sample

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 464-490

  Torres Harding, Susan ^a   Turner, Tasha ^a  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distress; racial microaggressions; reliability; stressfulness; validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGGRESSION; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN AMERICAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGGRESSION; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RACISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947806209     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278714550860     Document Type: Article

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