Data from a first-of-its-kind study suggest a racist attack could raise a person’s stress biomarkers almost immediately.
. However, few studies have linked single discriminatory events to immediate health effects. Now, data from a first-of-its-kind study suggest a racist attack could raise a person’s stress biomarkers almost immediately.
After accounting for the participants’ baseline stress levels, the research team adapted standardized survey questions about discrimination and microaggressions—such as whether they believed they had been mistaken for a service worker because of their race—and asked participants to share any occurrences of these experiences through a smartphone app.
the morning after they reported experiencing racial discrimination, such as being called slurs, the team reports today in. Microaggressions, on the other hand, seemed to increase cortisol levels on the very same day. Even outside any racist incidents, instances in which participants reported bad moods were associated with an increase in alpha amylase during the same day.
daily discrimination, such as being treated with less respect than others, seems to affect sleep in adolescents Nam acknowledges the study’s sample size is small, but says the cost of saliva testing and the time and effort required from participants can make larger studies impractical. Nam hopes future studies will look at how participants cope after a racist exchange for clues to mitigating the negative health effects of those episodes.
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