TY - JOUR
T1 - Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery
T2 - Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation
AU - Hargons, Candice
AU - Malone, Natalie J.
AU - Montique, Chesmore S.
AU - Dogan, Jardin
AU - Stuck, Jennifer
AU - Meiller, Carolyn
AU - Sullivan, Queen Ayanna
AU - Sanchez, Anyoliny
AU - Bohmer, Carrie
AU - Curvey, Rena M.G.
AU - Tyler, Kenneth M.
AU - Stevens-Watkins, Danelle
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Twenty-six Black collegians were exposed to a vicarious racial harassment stimulus (VRHS) then randomized into a Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma condition or a silence control condition. Heart rate (HR) was recorded throughout the experiment. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted to elicit participants’ appraisal of the VRHS and meditation. Using a Qual:Quan mixed methods experimental design, this pilot study qualitatively categorized how participants (1) described their reactions to the VRHS and (2) appraised the meditation. Participants described three types of race-based stress reactions and reported mostly positive appraisal of the meditation, although some indicated that it would not be a preferred coping strategy. To triangulate the quantitative findings, we found a significant increase in HR during VRHS. The meditation group displayed statistically significant reductions in HR from stimulus to the end of meditation; however, there were no statistically significant differences between the control and meditation groups. Results have implications for understanding and facilitating race-based stress recovery.
AB - Twenty-six Black collegians were exposed to a vicarious racial harassment stimulus (VRHS) then randomized into a Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma condition or a silence control condition. Heart rate (HR) was recorded throughout the experiment. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted to elicit participants’ appraisal of the VRHS and meditation. Using a Qual:Quan mixed methods experimental design, this pilot study qualitatively categorized how participants (1) described their reactions to the VRHS and (2) appraised the meditation. Participants described three types of race-based stress reactions and reported mostly positive appraisal of the meditation, although some indicated that it would not be a preferred coping strategy. To triangulate the quantitative findings, we found a significant increase in HR during VRHS. The meditation group displayed statistically significant reductions in HR from stimulus to the end of meditation; however, there were no statistically significant differences between the control and meditation groups. Results have implications for understanding and facilitating race-based stress recovery.
KW - Black people
KW - heart rate
KW - meditation
KW - mixed methods
KW - race-based stress
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U2 - 10.1177/00957984211034281
DO - 10.1177/00957984211034281
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115706424
SN - 0095-7984
VL - 48
SP - 645
EP - 677
JO - Journal of Black Psychology
JF - Journal of Black Psychology
IS - 5
ER -