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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Black Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Solution to Double Consciousness and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	21
Fifty Years (1974–2024) of the Journal of Black Psychology: A Brief History and Reflection of Its Significance	19
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features: Black Masculinity and Self-Compassion	16
W. Curtis Banks: The Second Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Black Psychology	16
Correlates of Psychological Distress Among African American Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Book Review: Ubuntu Musings: The Need for Black Critical Consciousness WilsonD. J. (2023). Ubuntu Musings: The Need for Black Critical Consciousness. Ubuntu Publishing. 257 pp. $30.99 (paperback)	14
It’s More Than Skin-Deep: Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Skin Tone Satisfaction, and Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Black Women	13
Trauma, Help-Seeking, and the Strong Black Woman	13
“AmeriKenyan”: Lived Acculturation and Ethnic Identification of Kenyan Natives During Their Youth	12
Seeking Just Us: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Racism-Specific Support Among Black College Students	12
Seeing One Another: The Creation of the Sawubona Healing Circles	11
In This Together? Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Shared Racial Fate on the Predictive Role of Racial Socialization and Discrimination on Black Activism	11
Processes Underlying Black American Emerging Adults’ Mental Health: Examining the Roles of Mental Health Literacy, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and Self-Care	10
Black Identity in Action: Examining Ethnic and Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination, and Collective Action Among Black Individuals	10
Hair Messages: A Context for Exploring Racial Socialization Among African American Males	9
Spiritual Surrender: Initial Appraisals of Cancer Diagnoses in Black Christian Women	9
Sankofa: Using Topic Models to Review the History of the Journal of Black Psychology	8
African-Centered Spirituality as a Buffer of Psychological Symptoms Related to Specific Forms of Racism for African Americans	8
Longitudinal Analysis of Academic Motivation: Examining the Antecedent Roles of Perceived Discrimination and Stereotype Threat Among African American STEM Majors	7
Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort	7
‘It Just Feels Like an Invasion’: Black First-Episode Psychosis Patients’ Experiences With Coercive Intervention and Its Influence on Help-Seeking Behaviours	7
Black Love, Activism, and Community (BLAC): The BLAC Model of Healing and Resilience	6
Black Psychology and Whiteness: Toward a Conceptual Model of Black Trauma through the Prism of Whiteness	6
Stay out of the Sun: Exploring African American College Women’s Thoughts on the Dynamics Between Colorism and Sun-related Behavior	6
My Journey as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Black Psychology	6

Black Students’ Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation	6
“They Do Us Wrong”: Bringing Together Black Adolescent Girls’ Voices on School Staff’s Differential Treatment	6
Seeing Black Girls in Their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety	6
Special Issue on Black Youth Suicide and Beyond	5
The Relationship Between Africentrism, Mental Health Outcomes, and Academic Self-Concept Among Black College Students	5
“I Remember My First Relaxer”: Black Women Voicing Psychologically Engrained Practices of Chemical Hair Straightening	5
Black/Africana Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stressors and the Role of Support	5
Experiences of Black Women Understanding Racial Microaggressions and Identifying Replenishing Healing Practices	5
Body Satisfaction and Disordered Eating Among Black Women Student Athletes: An Examination of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support	5
Peer Ethnicity as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Body Appreciation in Black College-Aged Women	5
Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation	5
Lawyering While Black: Perceived Stress as a Mediator of Impostor Feelings, Race-Related Stress and Mental Health Among Black Attorneys	4
COVID-19 Pandemic and Education: Nigerian Parents’ Approach and Perception of Children’s Education Based on Socioeconomic Indicators	4
Vicarious Experiences with Police Violence: Examining Psychosocial Factors that Predict Black Individuals’ Negative Affect and Intentions to Engage in Collective Action	3
The Influence of Gendered Racial Identity Centrality on Gendered Racism and Identity Shifting Among Black Undergraduate Women at a HBCU	3
Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health Among Black Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Meta-synthesis	3
Special Issue Call for Papers: Black Men and Mental Health	3
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction	3
Growing but Not Grown: Adolescent Black Girls’ Reasoning About a Hypothetical and Challenging Social Situation	3
Identifying Risk and Protective Factors in Research on Mental Health and Black American Adolescents: 1990 Through 2022	3
Sociocultural Factors Related to COVID Vaccine Status in African Americans	3
Conceptualizations of Effective Parenting: Perspectives of Religious Counselors in Ghana	2
Experiences of Black Men: Forms of Masculinity and Effects on Psychological Help-Seeking Variables	2
“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism	2
A Past Editor’s Retrospective and Future Perspectives on the Journal of Black Psychology: The Third Editor of the Journal	2
A Psychological, Historical Analysis of Post-Slavery Trauma and Post-Slavery Growth: Are They Viable Constructs?	2
Racial Identity Moderates Cultural Congruence and Healthy Eating Intentions in Black Emerging Adults	2
Ethical Standards of Black Psychologists: Revised 2021	2
Attachment Neuroscience and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolence Philosophy: Implications for the 21st Century and Beyond	2
Depression and Suicide Ideation: The Role of Self-Acceptance for Black Young Adults	2
(Un)availability of Social Provisions and the Framing of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Canada: A Qualitative Narrative Study	2
Representations of Mental Illness in a Ga Community in Southern Ghana	1
Black, Low-Income Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Course-Related Factors Associated With Reduced Academic Stress at a Predominantly White Institution	1
Life Stressors and Mental Well-Being: Experiences of African American Women Navigating Perinatal Loss and Pregnancy Subsequent to Loss	1
Racial Regard and Physical Health Among Low-Income Black Caregivers of Children With and Without Asthma	1
COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stressors and Black Mothers’ Mental Health	1
A Single-Session Wellness Initiative for Black College Women: Integrating Expressive Arts, Spirituality, and Political Resistance	1
The Association of Sleep Disturbance, Depression, and Kin Social Support With the College Adjustment of African American Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	1
Black Parents’ Rationales for Using Specific Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices With Their Young Children	1
Perceptions of Burnout Among Black Pastors of Small Churches: A Phenomenological Study	1
The Relationship Between the Imposter Phenomenon and Mental Health in Black Graduate Students: Examining Moderating Effects of Perceived Social Support	1
Black Racial Identity, Perceived Support, and Mental Health Within Dyadic Relationships	1
The Strong Black Woman Schema and Mental Health: Examining the Role of Personal Mastery	1
Black Women’s Sexual Assertiveness and Satisfaction: The Role of the Superwoman Schema	1
Exploring the Experiences of Black Men Through the Decision-Making Process in Secure Settings: A Qualitative Study	1
Siasa na Jamii: Pressing Social Concerns and Civic Engagement Among Secondary School Students in Tanzania	1
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts Among Black Adolescents Based on the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey	1
The Parenting Gold Standard: Maternal Master Narratives of Parenting Black Emerging Adult Children	1
End of the Year: 50th Anniversary Reflections	1
Black Women’s Body Image: Implications for Identity Formation and Well-Being	1

Racial Regard and Internalizing Symptoms Among Black Youth: Indirect Effects Through Expressive Suppression	1
The Strong Black Woman Concept: Associated Demographic Characteristics and Perceived Stress Among Black Women	1