Activism’s Influence on Outcomes of Race-Related Stressors Among Black College Students

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Abstract

Black students attending PWIs experience race-related stressors which can result in psychological distress and academic disengagement. Black collegians may respond to these race-related stressors by participating in campus activism to demand institutional change. Some research has linked Black student activism to activist burnout marked by psychological distress and academic disengagement. Utilizing Cooperative Institutional Research Program data, the moderating impact of activism on the relationships between race-related stressors and psychological and academic outcomes among Black collegians (N = 646) was measured via hierarchical regression. No moderation effects were observed. Results showed that activism was significantly positively associated with academic disengagement when controlling for senior-year race-related stressors and pre-college academic disengagement and activism.

Author

• Laura Arias, SUNY - College at Oneonta