OBJECTIVES Black and Asian American emerging adults are at higher risk of experiencing racial/ethnic discrimination and related distress. Racial/ethnic discrimination may increase vulnerability for depressive symptoms by diminishing individuals' positive self-concept. While low global self-esteem has been noted as a crucial process linking discrimination and depressive symptoms, it is unclear if it plays a unique role beyond other relevant aspects of one's self-concept: racial/ethnic private regard and centrality. Moreover, although different racial/ethnic groups are known to experience discrimination in distinctive ways, little is known about how relative processes of self-esteem and racial/ethnic identity may differ across these groups. We investigated the generalizability and specificity of discrimination to distress linkages across Asian and Black Americans. METHOD Undergraduate Black (N = 109) and Asian American (N = 90) students self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination, depressive symptoms, and self-concept. RESULTS Global self-esteem indirectly linked the association between discrimination and depressive symptoms among Black Americans beyond the effects of racial/ethnic identity. Only among Black Americans, discrimination was associated with lower private regard. CONCLUSIONS Finding highlight group-specific processes underlying Black and Asian Americans' experiences of discrimination and depressive symptoms. Findings also demonstrate shared processes of discrimination-depressive symptoms linkage across groups and underscore the need to address the pervasive issues of racism and discrimination. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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黑人和亚裔美国大学生的歧视和抑郁症状：自我概念的共享和群体特定过程。

目标 黑人和亚裔美国新兴成年人遭受种族/族裔歧视和相关痛苦的风险更高。种族/民族歧视可能会通过削弱个人的积极自我概念来增加抑郁症状的脆弱性。虽然全球自尊心低下已被视为将歧视和抑郁症状联系起来的关键过程，但尚不清楚它是否在个人自我概念的其他相关方面发挥独特作用：种族/民族的私人尊重和中心地位。此外，尽管已知不同的种族/族裔群体以不同的方式经历歧视，但对于这些群体的自尊和种族/族裔身份的相对过程如何不同，我们知之甚少。我们调查了歧视对亚裔和黑人美国人的痛苦联系的普遍性和特异性。方法 本科黑人 (N = 109) 和亚裔美国人 (N = 90) 学生自我报告种族/民族歧视、抑郁症状和自我概念。结果 除了种族/民族认同的影响之外，全球自尊间接地将美国黑人的歧视和抑郁症状之间的关联联系起来。只有在美国黑人中，歧视与较低的私人尊重有关。结论 发现突出了黑人和亚裔美国人遭受歧视和抑郁症状的特定群体过程。调查结果还表明，不同群体之间存在歧视-抑郁症状联系的共同过程，并强调需要解决普遍存在的种族主义和歧视问题。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。