The Study of Dynamic and Stable Ethnic Identity Development among Asian and African American Adolescents

亚裔和非裔美国青少年动态与稳定的种族认同发展研究

• 批准号: 0611110
• 负责人: Tiffany Yip
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fordham University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0611110&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Study; Dynamic; Stable; Ethnic; Identity

This National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship Starter Grant provides start-up infrastructural support for the Post-Doctoral Fellow once he/she receives a tenure-track position within one year of finishing the NSF post-doc. There are two primary objectives of this proposal for the National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship Starter Grant. The first objective is to provide continued support for research funded as part of the PostDoctoral Research Fellowship (SES-0409492). The specific aims of this study are: 1). to experimentally manipulate ethnic identity salience in a laboratory setting, 2). to examine how salience is associated with psychological mood, 3). to examine how the valence of the setting (i.e., negative, positive) influences the association between salience and mood, and 4). to explore how stable ethnic identity might influence these associations. Preliminary analyses of the African American sample at the University of Michigan indicate that the experimental manipulation results in different levels of ethnic identity salience across the experimental and control conditions. The experimental method of this study makes it the first to demonstrate a causal association between context and salience, whereas previous daily diary and experience sampling studies allowed only for correlational observations. These data suggest that reading newspaper articles about the negative experiences of African Americans affirms the worldview of African Americans who already think that others view their group negatively. Data collection at the University of Michigan and Fordham will reveal whether there are differences in experiences of ethnic identity salience between Midwestern and Northeastern samples of Asian and African Americans. The second objective is to launch a longitudinal study of Asian and African American high school students in the New York Metropolitan area. Scholars have discussed adolescence as a particularly critical period for identity development; for youths of color, this identity may include an identity based on ethnic or racial group membership. As such, it seems especially important to make longitudinal observations of identity change over time. Therefore, this proposal will describe support for the first year of a 4-year longitudinal project. The specific aims of this study are: 1). to track the variability of ethnic identity salience among Asian and African American adolescents in naturalistic settings, 2). to evaluate how this variability is related to changes in stable ethnic identity, and 3). To explore the association between ethnic identity and psychological functioning as dynamic and stable aspects of the self. Although research provides increasing support for the variability of ethnic identity salience across days and situations, the long-term implications of this salience are unclear. As such, this study will examine how situation and daily level experiences of ethnic identity salience influence the development of stable ethnic identity over time. That is, how does the salience of ethnic identity in everyday contexts influence the development of a stable identity over time? Since this proposal is grounded in a multidimensional model of ethnic and racial identity it seeks to address how the various dimensions of identity may be differentially related to everyday experiences. The data intensive nature of the proposed studies is designed to provide rich and detailed information about the daily lives of adolescents from two minority groups. Combining cutting-edge methods such as daily diaries, experience sampling, and experimental techniques with traditional survey methods will provide a more comprehensive understanding of how ethnic identity operates in daily life. While the literature on ethnic identity has seen a surge in the past few decades, very little of this research addresses the dynamic nature of that identity. Therefore this study will contribute to the existing literature by providing additional support for the dynamism of ethnic identity. Moreover, to date, research on racial and ethnic identity has been largely based on the experiences of African Americans; therefore this study will contribute to the literature by including both Asian and African American youths. The study also makes a case that it is invaluable to conduct research on multiple groups in order to identify universal processes as well as those that are unique to minority groups in the United States. This study seeks to establish a link between the daily lived experiences of ethnic minority youth and their development of a sense of self. It will allow the Fellow to extend her work on Asian Americans to the study of African American adolescents. Finally, this grant will support research spanning adolescence to young adulthood providing information on a particularly important developmental period for identity development.

这个国家科学基金会社会，行为和经济科学少数民族博士后奖学金启动补助金提供启动基础设施支持博士后研究员一旦他/她收到一个终身职位内完成NSF博士后一年内的位置。国家科学基金会社会，行为和经济科学少数博士后奖学金启动补助金的提案有两个主要目标。第一个目标是为博士后研究奖学金（SES-0409492）资助的研究提供持续支持。本研究的具体目的是：1）。在实验室环境中实验性地操纵种族身份显著性，2）。研究突显性如何与心理情绪相关联，3）。为了检查设置的效价（即，消极的，积极的）影响突显性和情绪之间的联系，和4）。探索稳定的种族认同如何影响这些关联。对密歇根大学非裔美国人样本的初步分析表明，实验操作导致实验和对照条件下不同水平的种族身份显着性。这项研究的实验方法，使它第一次证明了上下文和显着性之间的因果关系，而以前的日常日记和经验抽样研究只允许相关的观察。这些数据表明，阅读报纸上关于非洲裔美国人负面经历的文章肯定了非洲裔美国人的世界观，他们已经认为其他人对他们的群体持负面看法。密歇根大学和福德姆大学的数据收集将揭示中西部和东北部亚裔和非裔美国人样本之间的种族身份显着性体验是否存在差异。第二个目标是对纽约大都会地区的亚裔和非裔美国高中生进行纵向研究。学者们认为青春期是身份发展的一个特别关键的时期;对于有色人种的年轻人来说，这种身份可能包括基于民族或种族群体成员身份的身份。因此，纵向观察身份随时间的变化似乎特别重要。因此，本提案将说明对一个4年期纵向项目第一年的支助。本研究的具体目的是：1）。追踪亚裔和非裔美国青少年在自然主义环境中种族身份显著性的变化。评估这种变异性如何与稳定的种族认同的变化相关，以及3）。探讨族群认同与心理功能之间的关联，作为自我的动态和稳定方面。虽然研究提供了越来越多的支持跨天和情况下的种族身份的显着性的变化，这种显着性的长期影响尚不清楚。因此，本研究将探讨如何情况和日常水平的经验，民族认同的显着性影响的发展，随着时间的推移，稳定的民族认同。也就是说，在日常生活中的民族身份的显着性如何影响一个稳定的身份随着时间的推移的发展？由于这一建议是以族裔和种族身份的多层面模式为基础的，它试图解决身份的各个方面如何与日常经历有不同的关系。拟议研究的数据密集型性质旨在提供有关两个少数群体青少年日常生活的丰富和详细的信息。将日常日记、经验抽样和实验技术等前沿方法与传统调查方法相结合，将更全面地了解族群认同在日常生活中的运作方式。在过去的几十年里，关于种族认同的文献激增，但很少有研究涉及这种认同的动态性质。因此，这项研究将有助于现有的文献提供额外的支持，种族认同的动态。此外，到目前为止，种族和民族认同的研究主要是基于非裔美国人的经验，因此，这项研究将有助于文学包括亚洲和非洲裔美国青年。该研究还提出了一个案例，即对多个群体进行研究，以确定普遍的过程以及美国少数群体特有的过程是非常宝贵的。本研究旨在建立少数民族青年的日常生活经验和他们的自我意识的发展之间的联系。 这将使研究员能够将她对亚裔美国人的研究扩展到对非裔美国青少年的研究。最后，这笔赠款将支持从青少年到青年的研究，提供关于身份发展的特别重要的发展时期的信息。