"Relationship Between Racial Trauma, Microaggression, Cultural Coping B" by Chrismathe Lindsay

Date of Conferral

1-9-2025

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Counselor Education and Supervision

Advisor

Chandra Johnson

Abstract

Black students in counseling programs face many challenges stemming from racial trauma and microaggression; for instance, they are at greater risk for mental health problems and degree incompletion. Grounded in critical race theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to examine whether racial trauma, the experience of microaggression, and cultural coping behaviors were significant predictors of resilience and whether cultural coping behaviors mediated the relationship between racial trauma, microaggression, and resilience among Black counseling students. A convenience sample was used to anonymously survey 80 Black counseling students. The results of the multiple regression mediation analysis showed a statistically nonsignificant predictive relationship between racial trauma, the microaggression, cultural coping behaviors, and resilience (p = .271). Cultural coping behaviors did not significantly mediate the relationship between racial trauma and resilience (p = .981) or microaggression and resilience (p = .171). Future researchers should further explore the relationship between racial trauma, microaggression, cultural coping behaviors, and resilience of Black counseling students. Counselor educators and supervisors may benefit from this study because it provides a greater understanding of Black counseling students' experiences with racial trauma and microaggression and their use of cultural coping behaviors to maintain resilience. Counselor education programs can potentially use the outcome of this study to inform and support Black counseling students by developing and implementing policies and practices that promote mental health, degree completion, and positive social change.

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