Measuring the unspoken, voicing the lived: Racism-related stress among Asian American educators.

Asian Americans generally and Asian American educators have experienced occupational stress during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as racism-related stress due to the uptick in anti-Asian hate. In this study, we validated the scores of a revised version of the Asian American Racism-related Stress Inventory and examined the experiences of racism-related stress as a result of anti-Asian discrimination and violence. This mixed methods study included 256 Asian American educators who completed a survey and 21 Asian American educators who participated in semistructured interviews. We conducted confirmatory factor analyses and other analyses to evaluate the psychometric properties of the revised Asian American Racism-related Stress Inventory scores. Results indicated that a second-order model with racism-related stress as the best supported higher order factor and three first-order factors: sociohistorical, general, and perpetual foreigner racism-related stress. Descriptive thematic analysis of semistructured interviews further revealed contextualized racialized experiences and associated racism-related stressors. These findings highlight the significance of stress stemming from racism and the distinct encounters Asian American educators experience in the context of anti-Asian hate. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).