Discrimination, Health, and the Costs and Benefits of Believing in System Fairness
Discrimination, Health, and the Costs and Benefits of Believing in System Fairness
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DOI：
10.1037/hea0000841
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发表时间：
2020-03-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Glace, Alyssa M.
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作者：
Dover, Tessa L.;Major, Brenda;Glace, Alyssa M.
目的：对于来自社会经济弱势背景的少数民族学生来说，在社会和学业压力下进入大学并取得成功通常被认为是适应能力的最终标志。然而，越来越多的研究表明，对这些学生来说，向上流动可能会带来健康成本。本研究旨在探讨对于经常遭受歧视的拉丁裔学生而言，相信社会制度公平是否在促进心理健康的同时损害了他们的身体健康。方法：对233名低收入和/或第一代拉丁裔大学生进行了大学一年级的跟踪调查。在进入大学和学年结束时，对歧视经历、心理健康和身体健康风险（一系列炎症、生物形态和心血管风险指标）进行了评估。结果：无论歧视经历如何，相信制度公平预测较高的年终心理健康（控制初始心理健康）。然而，对于在大学经历过严重歧视的学生来说，相信系统公平也会导致更高的年终身体健康风险（控制歧视和身体健康风险的基线水平）。结论：让社会经济弱势的少数民族学生在心理上茁壮成长的信念，也可能使他们在面临频繁歧视时面临身体健康风险。
Objective: For minority students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, attending university and succeeding despite social and academic stressors is often considered the ultimate marker of resilience. However, a growing body of work suggests that there may be health costs to upward mobility for such students. This study investigated whether believing that the social system is fair simultaneously promotes psychological health while undermining the physical health of Latinx students experiencing frequent discrimination. Method: Two hundred thirty-three low-income and/or first-generation Latinx college students were followed through their first year at university. Discrimination experiences, psychological health, and physical health risk (a suite of inflammatory, biomorphic, and cardiovascular risk markers) were assessed upon entering university and at the end of the academic year. Results: Regardless of discrimination experiences, believing in system fairness predicted higher end-of-year psychological health (controlling for initial psychological health). However, for students who experienced substantial discrimination at university, believing in system fairness also led to higher end-of-year physical health risk (controlling for baseline levels of discrimination and physical health risk). Conclusions: Beliefs that allow socioeconomically disadvantaged minority students to thrive psychologically may also put them at physical health risk when facing frequent discrimination.