The Daily Cost of Constant Watchfulness: Racism-Related Vigilance Links Racial Discrimination to Internalizing Problems in Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth.

= .003). This study is among the first to demonstrate that racism-related vigilance is a key developmental process linking racial discrimination to elevated depression and anxiety among ethnoracially minoritized youth at the daily level. Results underscore the need for prevention efforts that help youth balance the adaptive role of heightened vigilance amid ongoing racism exposure with the cultivation of a larger repertoire of skills necessary for meeting the broader developmental demands of adolescence, including navigating situations that do not involve racial threat. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).