Racial Identity as a Resilience Factor for African American Students

社会、行为和经济科学局提供博士后研究奖学金，为新近毕业的博士毕业生提供获得额外培训的机会，在知名科学家的赞助下获得研究经验，并在本科生和研究生培训之外拓宽他们的科学视野。博士后奖学金的进一步设计是为了帮助新科学家引导他们的研究努力跨越传统的学科界限，并利用独特的研究资源、地点和设施，包括在国外。这一博士后奖学金支持一位年轻学者的培训和研究，他研究种族认同对非裔美国青少年和大学生的影响。当这些人在日常生活中遭受种族歧视时，他们在学业和心理上往往是脆弱的。这个项目探索了他们如何成功地应对与种族相关的负面经历，并在学术和心理上保持弹性。这位研究员隶属于背景下黑人青年研究中心(CSBYC)，在那里她有机会指导隶属于CSBYC的有色人种高中生和大学生，并为STEM领域的职业发展培养技能。具体地说，她为非裔美国高中生担任导师，这些高中生参与了该中心本科生研究机会计划的独立项目。该项目有助于了解非裔美国青少年和大学生的种族歧视经历，以及他们的种族认同信念与歧视经历相互作用的方式，以影响学业参与度和心理健康。这项工作在几个方面为更大的研究文献做出了贡献。例如，它将审查非裔美国大学生是否经历了一些与种族有关的负面经历，而这些经历没有被用于评估种族歧视的传统量化指标所涵盖。这项研究考察了大学生在经历了种族歧视后，他们对自己的种族认同信念的感知方式，这些信念影响了他们的学业投入、动机和心理健康。此外，从使用日常日记方法收集的数据中纳入信息可能会增加非洲裔美国青少年中歧视、种族认同和结果之间关系的传统研究方式的复杂性。该项目可能对整个社会产生非常广泛的影响，特别是STEM教育。

The Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences offers postdoctoral research fellowships to provide opportunities for recent doctoral graduates to obtain additional training, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden their scientific horizons beyond their undergraduate and graduate training. Postdoctoral fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including at foreign locations. This postdoctoral fellowship award supports the training and research of a young scholar who studies the effects of racial identity in African American adolescents and college students. These populations are often academically and psychologically vulnerable when they experience racial discrimination in their daily contexts. This project explore the ways in which they cope successfully with negative race-related experiences and remain resilient academically and psychologically. The Fellow is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context (CSBYC) where she has the opportunity to mentor high school and college students of color who are affiliated with the CSBYC and developing skills for careers in STEM fields. Specifically, she serves as a mentor to African American high school students who work on independent projects as part of the center's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.This project contributes to the theory and research seeking to understand African American adolescents' and college students' racial discrimination experiences and the ways their racial identity beliefs interact with discrimination experiences to influence academic engagement and psychological health. This work contributes to the larger research literature in several ways. For instance, it will examine whether there are negative race-related experiences that African American college students experience that are not captured in traditional quantitative measures used to assess racial discrimination. This work examines the ways college students perceive their racial identity beliefs as influencing their academic engagement and motivation and psychological well-being after they have experienced racial discrimination. Additionally, the incorporation of information from data collected using a daily diary method can add complexity in the ways in which relations between discrimination, racial identity, and outcomes have traditionally been studied among African American adolescents. This project has potentially very high broader impacts for society in general and STEM education is particular.