OBJECTIVES Perceived racial discrimination is associated with depressive symptoms for African American adults; however, insight to protective factors for racism and depression in African Americans is limited. While current research suggests that dispositional forgiveness is an important factor in how people perceive and cope with interpersonal transgressions, few studies have examined its role in the context of racial discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of forgiveness (beyond broader internalized religiosity) on the association between perceived racial discrimination and depressive symptoms in African American adults. METHOD Sample included 101 African American adults (60.2% female; Mage = 21.90 years, SD = 4.93 years) who endorsed experiences of racial discrimination. Participants completed a questionnaire battery consisting of self-report measures of perceived experiences of racial discrimination, depression, dispositional forgiveness, and intrinsic religiosity. RESULTS Regression analyses showed dispositional forgiveness moderated the association between perceived racial discrimination and symptoms of depression above and beyond intrinsic religiosity (β = -.05, 95% CI [-.10, -.05], p < .05), such that the racial discrimination-depression association was significant for participants who reported low levels of dispositional forgiveness, but not for individuals who reported higher levels of dispositional forgiveness. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide insight into the role of dispositional forgiveness in experiences of racial discrimination and suggest that cognitive flexibility serves as an adaptive coping strategy to experiencing discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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性格宽恕对非裔美国成年人感知种族歧视和抑郁的调节作用。

目标 感知到的种族歧视与非裔美国成年人的抑郁症状有关；然而，对非裔美国人种族主义和抑郁的保护因素的了解是有限的。虽然目前的研究表明，性格宽恕是人们如何看待和应对人际违法行为的一个重要因素，但很少有研究考察其在种族歧视背景下的作用。本研究的目的是检查宽恕（超越更广泛的内化宗教信仰）对非裔美国成年人感知种族歧视与抑郁症状之间关联的调节作用。方法 样本包括 101 名支持种族歧视经历的非裔美国成年人（60.2% 为女性；法师 = 21.90 岁，SD = 4.93 岁）。参与者完成了一套问卷调查，其中包括对种族歧视、抑郁、性格宽恕和内在宗教信仰的感知体验的自我报告措施。结果 回归分析显示，性情宽恕调节了感知种族歧视与超越内在宗教信仰的抑郁症状之间的关联（β = -.05，95% CI [-.10，-.05]，p < .05），因此种族歧视 - 抑郁协会对报告低水平的性格宽恕的参与者很重要，但对于报告高水平的性格宽恕的个人则不然。结论这些研究结果提供了对性格宽恕在种族歧视经历中的作用的洞察，并表明认知灵活性可以作为一种适应歧视经历的应对策略。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。