Skin Tone and Perceived Discrimination: Health and Aging Beyond the Binary in NSHAP 2015.
Skin Tone and Perceived Discrimination: Health and Aging Beyond the Binary in NSHAP 2015.
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肤色和感知歧视：NSHAP 2015 中超越二元的健康与衰老。
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10.1093/geronb/gbab098
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2021
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Montoya,Yadira
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Monk,EllisP;Kaufman,Jerry;Montoya,Yadira
本文介绍了第三轮国家社会生活、健康和老龄化项目(NSHAP)中包含的肤色(自我报告)和感知歧视的新测量。我们解释了这些新措施的基本原理，特别强调了它们如何帮助研究人员概念化和衡量种族/族裔对健康和老龄化的意义，超越了二元民族类别。方法我们描述了在NSHAP 2015中使用的肤色和感知歧视的新衡量标准。我们提供了关于肤色分布的描述性统计数据(自我报告)，按种族/民族分类。作为概念的证明，我们使用Logistic和普通最小二乘回归分析来检验少数民族中肤色、感知歧视和感知压力之间的关系。结果我们发现，在NSHAP 2015中，非白人受访者(例如非西班牙裔黑人和拉丁裔)的肤色存在显著差异。我们还发现，肤色(自我报告)是NSHAP中非裔美国人感受到的歧视和感受到的压力的显著预测因素，但不是拉丁裔受访者。讨论NSHAP 2015中纳入了新的肤色和歧视措施，为研究人员提供了一个独特的新机会，让研究人员更深入地了解种族/族裔如何与少数民族的健康和老龄化有关。此外，它还将有助于分析在美国社会经济不平等不断加剧和种族人口结构发生变化的背景下，压力和感知到的歧视如何影响白人的健康和老龄化模式。
ObjectivesThis paper introduces new measures of skin tone (self-reported) and perceived discrimination that are included in the third round of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP). We explain the rationale for these new measures, emphasizing, in particular, how they help researchers to conceptualize and measure the significance of race/ethnicity for health and aging beyond binary ethnoracial categories.MethodWe describe new measures of skin tone and perceived discrimination for use in NSHAP 2015. We provide descriptive statistics on the distribution of skin tone (self-reported) by race/ethnicity. As a proof of concept, we use logistic and ordinary least squares regression analyses to examine the relationship between skin tone, perceived discrimination, and perceived stress among ethnoracial minorities.ResultsWe find that there is significant variation in skin tone among non-White respondents in NSHAP 2015 (e.g., non-Hispanic Black and Latinx). We also find that skin tone (self-reported) is a significant predictor of the frequency of perceived discrimination and perceived stress among African American, but not Latinx respondents in NSHAP.DiscussionThe inclusion of new skin tone and discrimination measures in NSHAP 2015 provides a unique and novel opportunity for researchers to more deeply understand how race/ethnicity is connected to health and aging among ethnoracial minorities. Furthermore, it will enable analyses of how stress and perceived discrimination also affect patterns of health and aging among Whites against the backdrop of steadily increasing socioeconomic inequalities and shifting ethnoracial demographics in the United States.