PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0610419
• 负责人: Enrique Neblett
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: Neblett Enrique W
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0610419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PostDoctoral; Research; Fellowship

This National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship will generate new knowledge about coping with race-related stress in African Americans, significantly enhancing the Fellow's skills as a research scientist, and contribute to the future vitality of scientific enterprise. The Fellow will perform his research at Howard University under Dr. Jules Harrell in the Psychology Department. Howard University has an excellent track record in producing research that examines the diversity of the African American experience. Additionally, Dr. Harrell's research investigates physiological systems and personality factors that account for individual differences in responses to stress in people of African descent. The research combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate the relations among racism experiences, racial identity, coping, and cardiac activity. The first phase of the research will recruit first-year African American college students to participate in a longitudinal study of African Americans' experienceswith racism, examining whether: (1) discrimination experiences predict changes in cardiac activity, (2) racial identity buffers the negative effects of race-related stress experiences on changes in cardiac activity, and (3) the relation between discrimination experiences and changes in cardiac output is mediated by racial identity and coping. The second phase of the study will choose a subset of Phase I study participants on the basis of their cardiac activity and racial identity to participate in semi-structured interviews, examining patterns and processes through which African American coping responses relate to cardiac activity. Grounded theory methods will be used to analyze the data, thus allowing for the generation of new theory. The training objectives are to enhance the Fellow's theoretical approaches to the study of race-related stress and coping, to gain skills in psychophysiology, and to build his evolving program of research, which examines the influence of African American experiences with race-related stress and the consequence of these experiences for psychological adjustment. These training goals will help the Fellow attain a tenure-track professorship at a research-extensive university. Seminars, coursework, and participation in the Psychophysiology Laboratory at Howard will expand his scope of training experiences and prepare him to explore copingwith racism in new and innovative ways. Fellowship activities will allow him to build on existing theory, increasing basic knowledge about race-related risk and protective factors, coping, and overall functioning in African Americans.

这个国家科学基金会少数民族博士后奖学金将产生新的知识应对种族相关的压力在非洲裔美国人，显着提高研究员的技能作为一个研究科学家，并有助于科学企业的未来活力。该研究员将在霍华德大学心理学系朱尔斯·哈雷尔博士的指导下进行研究。霍华德大学在研究非裔美国人经历的多样性方面有着出色的记录。此外，Harrell博士的研究调查了生理系统和人格因素，这些因素解释了非洲裔人对压力反应的个体差异。本研究结合定量和定性的方法来调查种族主义的经验，种族认同，应对和心脏活动之间的关系。研究的第一阶段将招募一年级的非洲裔美国大学生参加一项关于非洲裔美国人种族主义经历的纵向研究，研究是否：（1）歧视经验预测心脏活动的变化，（2）种族认同缓冲了种族相关压力经验对心脏活动变化的负面影响，（3）种族认同和应对方式是歧视经历与心输出量变化的中介变量。该研究的第二阶段将根据心脏活动和种族身份选择一部分I期研究参与者参加半结构化访谈，检查非裔美国人应对反应与心脏活动相关的模式和过程。扎根理论方法将用于分析数据，从而允许新理论的产生。培训目标是提高研究员的理论方法，以种族相关的压力和应对的研究，获得心理生理学的技能，并建立他不断发展的研究计划，研究非洲裔美国人的经验与种族相关的压力的影响和这些经验的心理调整的后果。这些培训目标将帮助研究员在一所研究型大学获得终身教授职位。研讨会，课程，并在霍华德心理生理学实验室的参与将扩大他的培训经验的范围，并准备他探索应对种族主义的新的和创新的方式。奖学金活动将使他能够建立在现有的理论，增加有关种族相关的风险和保护因素，应对和非洲裔美国人的整体功能的基本知识。