Racial Typicality, Racial Identity, and Health Behaviors: A Case for Culturally Sensitive Health Interventions
Racial Typicality, Racial Identity, and Health Behaviors: A Case for Culturally Sensitive Health Interventions
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DOI：
10.1177/0095798410376244
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Afful, Stephanie E.
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作者：
Harvey, Richard D.;Afful, Stephanie E.
事实证明，对文化敏感的健康干预措施对消除美国黑人面临的健康差距至关重要。本研究旨在阐明健康行为、种族典型性和种族认同在美国黑人如何看待和参与健康行为中的作用和重要性。美国黑人完成了种族认同测量，并对各种促进健康和损害健康的行为进行了评价，以确定他们是更典型的黑人还是白人（即，种族典型性）、个人重要性和参与频率。结果表明，在何种程度上健康行为被视为相对更多的描述黑人（而不是白人）与更高的感知重要性和更高的参与频率，特别是在那些报告更高水平的民族主义种族认同。最后，健康行为的重要性介导的行为和参与行为的种族典型性之间的关系。研究的结果进行了讨论，其影响提供实证支持的必要性，文化定制的干预措施，在消除美国黑人的健康差距。
Culturally sensitive health interventions have proven to be vitally important for the elimination of the health disparities that Black Americans face. The purpose of this study was to illuminate the role and importance of health behavior racial typicality and racial identification in how Black Americans view and engage in health behaviors. Black Americans completed racial identity measures and rated a variety of both health-promoting and health-compromising behaviors on whether they were more typical of Blacks or Whites (i.e., racial typicality), personal importance, and frequency of engagement. Results indicated the extent to which health behaviors were viewed as relatively more descriptive of Blacks (rather than Whites) was associated with higher perceived importance and greater frequency of engagement, particularly among those reporting higher levels of nationalist racial identification. Finally, health behavior importance mediated the relationship between racial typicality of the behavior and engagement in the behavior. The results of the study are discussed in terms of their implications for providing empirical support for the necessity of culturally tailored interventions in eliminating Black American health disparities.