Neighborhood Racial Composition, Racial Discrimination, and Depressive Symptoms in African Americans
Neighborhood Racial Composition, Racial Discrimination, and Depressive Symptoms in African Americans
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DOI：
10.1007/s10464-014-9666-y
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Zonderman, Alan B.
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作者：
English, Devin;Lambert, Sharon F.;Zonderman, Alan B.
虽然有证据表明，经历过的种族歧视与非裔美国人的抑郁症状增加有关，但很少有研究调查经历过种族歧视的预测因素。本文研究了社区种族构成和社会人口因素，作为非裔美国成年人经历种族歧视和由此产生的抑郁症状水平的前因。样本包括来自马里兰州巴尔的摩的 505 名具有不同社会经济背景的非裔美国成年人。研究数据是根据 2010 年人口普查数据通过参与者地址的自我报告和地理编码获得的。使用纵向结构方程模型中的多个路径来测试研究假设。经历过的种族歧视与年龄和性别呈正相关，因此老年人和男性经历的种族歧视程度更高。此外，居住在社区的白人比例与非裔美国社区居民遭受种族歧视的程度呈正相关。经历过的种族歧视与后来的抑郁症状呈正相关。社区层面的背景因素，例如社区种族构成和社会人口特征的个体差异，似乎在非裔美国成年人的种族歧视经历和抑郁症病因中发挥着重要作用。
While evidence indicates that experienced racial discrimination is associated with increased depressive symptoms for African Americans, there is little research investigating predictors of experienced racial discrimination. This paper examines neighborhood racial composition and sociodemographic factors as antecedents to experienced racial discrimination and resultant levels of depressive symptoms among African American adults. The sample included 505 socioeconomically-diverse African American adults from Baltimore, MD. Study data were obtained via self-report and geocoding of participant addresses based on 2010 census data. Study hypotheses were tested using multiple pathways within a longitudinal Structural Equation Model. Experienced racial discrimination was positively associated with age and sex such that older individuals and males experienced increased levels of racial discrimination. In addition, the percentage of White individuals residing in a neighborhood was positively associated with levels of experienced racial discrimination for African American neighborhood residents. Experienced racial discrimination was positively associated with later depressive symptoms. Neighborhood-level contextual factors such as neighborhood racial composition and individual differences in sociodemographic characteristics appear to play an important role in the experience of racial discrimination and the etiology of depression in African American adults.