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Descriptor English: Microaggression
Descriptor Spanish: Microagresión
Descriptor microagresión
Scope note: Humillaciones verbales, conductuales o situacionales breves que comunican desaires o insultos hostiles, despectivos o negativos. Pueden ser intencionadas o implícitas. Se han identificado tres subtipos: microataques, que son acciones deliberadamente discriminatorias; microinsultos, que son desaires sutiles que devalúan la identidad de una persona; y microinvalidaciones, que son exclusiones o negaciones no intencionadas de los pensamientos de una persona. (Traducción libre del original: dictionary.apa.org/microaggression 30/12/2020).
Descriptor Portuguese: Microagressão
Descriptor French: Micro-agression
Tree number(s): F01.145.813.045.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000088828
Scope note: Brief verbal, behavioral, or situational indignities that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights or insults. It may may be intentional or implicit. Three subtypes have been identified: microassaults, which are purposefully discriminatory actions; microinsults, which are subtle snubs that devalue a person’s identity; and microinvalidations, which are unintentional exclusions or negations of an individual’s thoughts. (dictionary.apa.org/microaggression 12/30/2020)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Aggression (2000-2021)
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
DeCS ID: 59705
Unique ID: D000088828
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/07/06
Microaggression - Preferred
Concept UI M000742364
Scope note Brief verbal, behavioral, or situational indignities that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights or insults. It may may be intentional or implicit. Three subtypes have been identified: microassaults, which are purposefully discriminatory actions; microinsults, which are subtle snubs that devalue a person’s identity; and microinvalidations, which are unintentional exclusions or negations of an individual’s thoughts. (dictionary.apa.org/microaggression 12/30/2020)
Preferred term Microaggression



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