PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

在密歇根大学心理学系罗伯特·塞勒斯博士的指导下，这个社会，经济和行为少数民族博士后研究和培训奖学金是一项实验室研究，调查种族身份如何塑造非裔美国大学生的日常经历。具体而言，种族认同的两个方面将进行审查。第一种是稳定的种族身份中心感，这是指种族对整体身份的重要程度。第二个是动态的种族意识，这是指种族身份的感觉如何在不同的情况下波动，以应对设置线索。中心性和显著性的概念化和测量将基于种族身份的多维模型（MMRI）。第一个目标是检验情境线索对种族显著性的影响。第二个目标是研究种族显著性对心理健康的影响。第三个目标是研究种族中心性如何影响这些协会。从大学提供的电子邮件中，将招募100名非洲裔美国女性完成一项基于网络的调查，评估种族中心性。几周后，参与者将被要求来到一个研究实验室，随机分配到两个实验条件之一：低种族显着性和高种族显着性。这项研究有助于解决种族认同研究中的几个局限性，以前代表性不足的群体的文献。从历史上看，种族认同一直被认为是稳定的。最近，研究人员已经开始探索种族显着性经验。因此，种族突出性及其与种族中心性的相互作用在很大程度上仍然没有得到充分研究。通过评估种族身份显着性如何在不同环境中变化，可以更全面地了解种族身份在非裔美国学生日常生活中的作用。此外，通过研究种族认同的稳定和变化方面，本研究探讨种族中心性如何作为一个透镜，通过它的客观环境是在心理上不同的方式体验。此外，虽然种族认同研究一直占主导地位的相关性研究，本研究采用创新的实验方法，允许控制环境刺激。了解设置功能如何触发种族的显着性和心理健康的后续影响可能是特别重要的非裔美国人在高等教育环境。

This Social, Economic, and Behavioral Minority Post-Doctoral Research and Training Fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Sellers in the Psychology Department at the University of Michigan is an experimental laboratory study investigating how racial identity shapes the everyday experiences of AfricanAmerican college students. Specifically, two aspects of racial identity will be examined. The first is stable feelings of racial identity centrality which refers to the extent to which race is important to an overall identity. The second is dynamic feelings of racial salience which refers how feelings of racial identity fluctuates across situations in response to setting cues. The conceptualization and measurement of centrality and salience will be based on the Multidimensional Model of Racial identity (MMRI). The first objective is to examine the effect of situational cues on racial salience. The second objective is to examine the mental health consequences of racial salience. The third objective is to examine how racial centrality might influence these associations. From emails provided by the University, one hundred African American females will be recruited to complete a web-based survey assessing racial centrality. A few weeks later, participants will be asked to come to a research laboratory to be randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions: low racial salience and high racial salience. This study contributes to the literature on a previously underrepresented group by addressing several limitations in the research on racial identity. Historically, racial identity has been conceptualized and measured as stable. More recently, researchers have begun to explore racial salience empirically. As such, racial salience, and its interaction with racial centrality, remains largely understudied. By assessing how racial identity salience changes across settings, a more comprehensive understanding of the role of racial identity in the everyday lives of African American students can be obtained. In addition, by examining both the stable and changing aspects of racial identity, this study investigates how racial centrality may serve as a lens through which the objective environment is experienced in psychologically different ways. Furthermore, whereas racial identity research has been dominated by correlational research, this study employs innovative experimental methods, allowing for control of environmental stimuli. Understanding how setting features trigger racial salience and the subsequent impact upon psychological well-being may be particularly important for African Americans in higher education settings.