Anxiety Among African-American Adolescents

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Anxiety among African-American Adolescents.
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ANXIETY AMONG AFRICAN-AMERIAN ADOLESCENTS. 2
Anxiety among African-American Adolescents.
Abstract.
The study presents a detailed determination of the anxiety among Africa-America
adolescents. It presentation comes direct from the data of the child allocated performed
through a qualitative study. The specifics of the study is to determine whether there is a high
prevalence in effect of indolence among African American and the rest of the group such as
pure Americans or Europeans. It also check the possibility of a working treatment process
using a baseline clinical methods. For this study, the participants involved were age 8-16 and
a general criteria was used to determine the level of anxiety effects.
Introduction
African American adolescent is normally confronted with much anxiety during the
adolescence stage (Assari, 2016). The last update to the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
mental disorders.” A publication by American Sacaretrick Association mood disorders was
put in a new classification of depressive disorders. It is worth nothing that, depressive illness
is the only condition of mental health in the top five classifications by the world health
organization (WHO) that cause disability worldwide. Depressive illnesses are related to
distress and impairment in adolescence. To a teenager, adolescence is usually related to
suicidal ideas, deteriorating physical health, and educational gaps. Generally, adolescence
creates burdens for teenagers and their parents and siblings resulting in poor performance in
academics, frictional affairs, and poor life quality. African American adolescent is faced with
racism (Seaton et al., 2014). Consequently, this causes slower rates of mental growth and
poorer quality of care compared to white adolescence. Stigma, lack of trust of providers
insufficient or no diagnosis of depression are impediments to care through their crucial
documentation in the research literature spirituality and religion can be an essential

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mechanism for alleviating unfair treatment African American adolescence. African American
includes; continental Africans, Caribbean blacks, and different social economics groups.
African American is considered more religious than the whites. Furthermore, African
American youth are affiliated with Protestant denominations sanctification is an important
quality of life and adolescence can possess. Normally girls seem to make use of the quality of
sanctification more than boys do (Seaton et al., 2014).
Religious ways of coping with adolescence are beneficial for health conscience which
includes; behavioral and mental health. However, religious fanatics by some African youth
may be a hindrance to professional health care. The focus is to expand the knowledge of the
relationship of African American adolescence depressive illness religious believes, spiritual
believes and how the practices of the above enhance coping with adolescence. Religiosity
refers to the extent of individual adherence to practices and believes in a religion, which
includes; prayer, church attendance and other activities (Sirin et al., 2015).
LITERATURE REVIEW.
Most study presents this study by presenting a racial difference and anxiety though the use of
data coming from a large community. This data in most cases is presented in a randomized
way. A comparison done shows that there is a different between the African America and the
Caucasian particular. Consistence with hypothesis, the study focus on the goal of examine the
role of emotional regulation in certain age (Assari, 2016). This simply means that there is a
serious relationship between people who have high level of anxiety. It is also impotent to
note that emotional regulation would have a strong relationship between the anxiety and the
symptoms that are perceived with health. This means the self- reported symptoms
symptomology and those report to be having this challenge are those who regulate the
difficulties.

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Various developmental and sociological theories suggest that religion has positively
impacted the lives of the adolescents. It’s believed that taking part in a religious organization
leads to the wellbeing of adolescence (Sing et al., 2015). Participation and devotion in rituals
of a community such as activities and services of a church will hold to improve a sense of
discipline in an adolescent (Sirin et al., 2015). Religion helps in legalizing and reinforcing
norms of a given society, therefore providing guidelines to an individual that enhance
positive behaviour. Religion provides support to social beings and enhances social values
development and functions that protect adolescent from immorality. Religiosity has effects on
both adolescents’ social and psychological outcomes. Religiosity has been suggested to
positively foresee African American adolescent prosocial behaviours and negatively foresee
African American adolescence antisocial behaviour (Sirin et al., 2015). An example of a
prosaically behaviour is a social initiative. Example of antisocial behaviour includes
substance use and delinquency. Prosocial behaviors are related to the adolescence going to
groups programs or services. (Rivas et al., 2015).
African American adolescent faces discrimination (Sirin et al., 2015). This
adolescence is unequally treated in institutions for examples education institutions, health
institution, and labor institution. This may be a threat to security and life quality. Besides,
chances of lives of loved ones. Discrimination also is hurtful because it makes one’s own
self-esteem questionable, reduces self-worthiness and status as a citizen. This leads to states
of frustration, helplessness, alienation and other emotions that are negative (Seaton et al.,
2014).
A religious group has effectively facilitated the mental growth of African American
adolescent. Prayer, scripture reading, attendance at services participation and congregation
activities put together people with common religious doctrine and mostly develops status
characteristics and social. The scope of this literature review is limited to research that has