While previous studies have found significant relationships between racial microagressions, depression, and anxiety, few studies have examined the effects of racial microaggressions on traumatic stres

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Utility of the PANAS-X in Predicting Social Phobia in African American Females (2012) · doi

  Research examining positive affect and social anxiety has contributed to the understanding of social phobia in non-Hispanic White populations, but the cross-cultural generalization of anxiety in African Americans remains unknown.

  Keywords: social anxiety examining positive affect contributed understanding phobia hispanic white populations cross cultural generalization african
• Gendered racial microaggressions and emerging adult Black women's social and general anxiety: Distress intolerance and stress as mediators (2022) · doi

  However, few studies have examined how this form of discrimination affects Black women's social anxiety in addition to their general anxiety, as well as the underlying mechanisms related to gendered racial microaggressions and anxiety.

  Keywords: anxiety examined form discrimination affects black women social addition general well underlying mechanisms related gendered
• Challenging Definitions of Psychological Trauma: Connecting Racial Microaggressions and Traumatic Stress (2019) · doi

  While previous studies have found significant relationships between racial microagressions, depression, and anxiety, few studies have examined the effects of racial microaggressions on traumatic stress.

  Keywords: racial previous found significant relationships microagressions depression anxiety examined effects microaggressions traumatic stress