Experiencing racial microaggressions has clear effects on physical and psychological health, including obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms (OCS). More research is needed to examine this link. Psychological flexibility is an important process to examine in this work.

This study aimed to examine if, while controlling for depression and anxiety, experiences of microaggressions and psychological flexibility helped explain OCD symptoms within a university-affiliated sample (undergraduate, graduate and law students). This was a pilot exploration of the relationships across themes.

Initial baseline data from a longitudinal study of psychological flexibility, OCD symptoms, depression, anxiety and experience of microaggressions was utilized. Correlations and regressions were utilized to examine which OCD symptom dimensions were associated with experiencing racial microaggressions in addition to anxiety and depression, and the added role of psychological flexibility was examined.

OCD symptoms, experiences of microaggressions and psychological flexibility were correlated. Experiences of racial microaggressions explained responsibility for harm and contamination OCD symptoms above and beyond psychological distress. Exploratory results support the relevance of psychological flexibility.

Results support other work that experiences of racial microaggressions help explain OCS and they add some support for psychological flexibility as a relevant risk or protective factor for mental health in marginalized populations. These topics should be studied longitudinally with continued consideration of all OCD themes, larger sample sizes, intersecting identities, clinical samples, and continued exploration of psychological flexibility and mindfulness and values-based treatments.

经历种族微侵犯对身心健康有明显影响，包括强迫症症状（OCS）。需要更多的研究来检验这一联系。心理灵活性是这项工作中要考察的一个重要过程。

本研究旨在检验在控制抑郁和焦虑的同时，微攻击经历和心理灵活性是否有助于解释大学附属样本（本科生、研究生和法学院学生）中的强迫症症状。这是对跨主题关系的试点探索。

利用了对心理灵活性、强迫症症状、抑郁、焦虑和微攻击经历的纵向研究的初始基线数据。除了焦虑和抑郁之外，还利用相关性和回归来检查哪些强迫症症状维度与经历种族微侵犯相关，并检查了心理灵活性的附加作用。

强迫症症状、微攻击经历和心理灵活性是相关的。种族微侵犯的经历解释了除了心理困扰之外的伤害和污染强迫症症状的责任。探索性结果支持心理灵活性的相关性。

结果支持了其他研究，即种族微侵犯的经历有助于解释 OCS，并为心理灵活性作为边缘化人群心理健康的相关风险或保护因素提供了一些支持。这些主题应该纵向研究，继续考虑所有强迫症主题、更大的样本量、交叉身份、临床样本，并继续探索心理灵活性、正念和基于价值观的治疗。