Racial Discrimination and Risk for Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms Among Black Youths

Author:

Oshri Assaf1,Reck Ava Jane1,Carter Sierra E.2,Uddin Lucina Q.3,Geier Charles F.1,Beach Steven R. H.45,Brody Gene H.4,Kogan Steven M.14,Sweet Larry H.5

Affiliation:

1. Department of Human Development and Family Science, University of Georgia, Athens

2. Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta

3. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

4. Center of Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens

5. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens

Abstract

ImportanceRacial discrimination is a psychosocial stressor associated with youths’ risk for psychiatric symptoms. Scarce data exist on the moderating role of amygdalar activation patterns among Black youths in the US.ObjectiveTo investigate the association between racial discrimination and risk for psychopathology moderated by neuroaffective processing.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study used longitudinal self-report and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from Black youth participants in the US from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Data were analyzed from January 2023 to May 2024.ExposuresAt time 1 of the current study (12 months after baseline), youths self-reported on their experiences of interpersonal racial discrimination and their feelings of marginalization. Amygdalar response was measured during an emotionally valenced task that included blocks of faces expressing either neutral or negative emotion.Main Outcomes and MeasuresAt 24 and 36 months after baseline, youths reported their internalizing (anxiety and depressive symptoms) and externalizing symptoms (aggression and rule-breaking symptoms).ResultsA total of 1596 youths were a mean (SD) age of 10.92 (0.63) years, and 803 were female (50.3%). Families in the study had a mean annual income range of $25 000 to $34 999. Two factors were derived from factor analysis: interpersonal racial discrimination and feelings of marginalization (FoM). Using structural equation modeling in a linear regression, standardized β coefficients were obtained. Neural response to faces expressing negative emotion within the right amygdala significantly moderated the association between FoM and changes in internalizing symptoms (β = −0.20; 95% CI, −0.32 to −0.07; P < .001). The response to negative facial emotion within the right amygdala significantly moderated the association between FoM and changes in externalizing symptoms (β = 0.24; 95% CI, 0.04 to 0.43; P = .02). Left amygdala response to negative emotion significantly moderated the association between FoM and changes in externalizing symptoms (β = −0.16; 95% CI, −0.32 to −0.01; P = .04).Conclusions and RelevanceIn this cohort study of Black adolescents in the US, findings suggest that amygdala function in response to emotional stimuli can both protect and intensify the affective outcomes of feeling marginalized on risk for psychopathology, informing preventive interventions aimed at reducing the adverse effects of racism on internalizing and externalizing symptoms among Black youths.

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

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