Negative inferential style is a cognitive vulnerability for depression. Yet, few studies have explored how this risk factor intersects with culturally-specific protective factors, such as racial identity, in a unified cognitive risk-cultural asset model in youth of color. The current study addressed this gap by exploring the interplay between negative inferential style, racial identity, and depressive symptoms in an urban African-American adolescent community sample (N = 233; 51.9% female). Cross-lagged panel analyses estimated concurrent and prospective relationships between study variables. Racial identity dimensions of regard, but not centrality, were significant predictors of inferential style, and buffered against the development of depressive symptoms via the development of a less negative inferential style. Implications for the study of racial identity and cognition, and treatment of African–American adolescents are discussed.

消极推理风格是抑郁症的认知弱点。然而，很少有研究探讨这种风险因素如何与有色人种青年的统一认知风险-文化资产模型中的特定文化保护因素（例如种族身份）相交。目前的研究通过探索城市非洲裔美国青少年社区样本中消极推理风格、种族认同和抑郁症状之间的相互作用来解决这一差距（N = 233; 51.9% 女性）。交叉滞后面板分析估计研究变量之间的并发和前瞻性关系。尊重的种族身份维度，而不是中心性，是推理风格的重要预测因素，并通过发展不太消极的推理风格来缓冲抑郁症状的发展。讨论了种族认同和认知研究以及非裔美国青少年治疗的意义。