A Contextual Examination of Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness among Diverse College Students

不同大学生的民族认同和批判意识的情境考察

• 批准号: 2005052
• 负责人: Ursula Moffitt
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: Moffitt, Ursula E
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Contextual; Examination; Ethnic; Racial; Identity

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Leoandra Onnie Rogers at Northwestern and Dr. Margarita Azmitia at University of California Santa Cruz, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist examining the role of the sociopolitical context in the development of ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness among college-going young adults. The current sociopolitical climate is fraught and can be psychologically taxing for everyone, though its implications are more dire for some individuals than others. Since 2016, the number of reported hate crimes has risen sharply (FBI, 2018). On university campuses, violence against marginalized groups has also increased (Watt, Costa, & Quiason, 2018). In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, racism against Asian Americans has spiked (Coates, 2020) and Black, indigenous, and other minoritized individuals are getting sick and dying at disproportionate rates (Dyer, 2020). A better understanding is needed of how young adults from diverse ethnic-racial and political backgrounds alternately endorse, accept, or resist such events in both the local and national contexts. How are their responses situated within their sense of identity and their views on the world? If young people engage with sociopolitical events online or in person, what does this look like and what meaning do they draw from it? This project investigates these questions, linking the micro-level of daily life with the macro-level of the sociopolitical climate, examining the development of college-going young adults’ identities, beliefs, and behaviors in context.This project focuses specifically on critical consciousness (CC), a construct originally developed by Paolo Freire (1970), which includes an awareness of and resistance to societal inequity. Both CC and clarity about one’s ethnic-racial identity (ERI) can buffer the negative effects of discrimination (Diemer, Rapa, Park, & Perry, 2016; Yip, Wang, Mootoo, & Mirpuri, 2019) and link to myriad positive outcomes, including academic achievement and wellbeing (El-Amin et al., 2017; Rivas‐Drake et al., 2014). ERI and CC have rarely been investigated in tandem, however, and their development remains understudied among college students (Mathews et al., 2019). This project addresses this empirical gap using a longitudinal, mixed-methods approach, with data collection occurring at four time points across the 2020-2021 academic year. Survey data will be analyzed using person-centered longitudinal transition analysis (LTA), first creating clusters based on responses to ERI and CC measures, then examining who is likely to be in which cluster, who changes, and how these changes relate to additional variables such as political conservatism and sense of belonging. Additionally, open-response prompts will be gathered for ten day periods, asking participants to describe their engagement with and make meaning about real-time events. Responses will be analyzed using narrative methods, illuminating within- and between-person differences. This mix of methods and analyses allows for a rich investigation of ERI and CC development in context, advancing theory and promoting equity-oriented outcomes among young people with diverse identities and experiences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在西北大学的Leoandra Onnie Rogers博士和加州圣克鲁斯大学的Margarita Azmitia博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金支持早期职业科学家研究社会政治背景在大学年轻人中民族种族身份和批判意识发展中的作用。当前的社会政治气候令人担忧，对每个人来说都可能是心理负担，尽管它对某些人的影响比其他人更可怕。自2016年以来，报告的仇恨犯罪数量急剧上升（FBI，2018）。在大学校园里，针对边缘化群体的暴力行为也有所增加（Watt，Costa，Quiason，2018）。在冠状病毒大流行之后，针对亚裔美国人的种族主义激增（科茨，2020），黑人，土著和其他少数民族的人生病和死亡率不成比例（Dyer，2020）。需要更好地了解来自不同民族种族和政治背景的年轻人如何在地方和国家背景下交替支持，接受或抵制此类事件。他们的反应是如何置于他们的身份感和他们对世界的看法？如果年轻人在网上或亲自参与社会政治事件，这看起来像什么，他们从中得到什么意义？本研究将日常生活的微观层面与社会政治气候的宏观层面联系起来，考察大学生的身份、信仰和行为在情境中的发展。本研究的重点是批判意识（CC），这是一个最初由Paolo Freire（1970）提出的概念，其中包括对社会不平等的认识和抵制。CC和对一个人的民族-种族身份（ERI）的清晰度都可以缓冲歧视的负面影响（Diemer，Rapa，Park，佩里，2016; Yip，Wang，Mootoo，Mirpuri，2019），并与无数的积极成果联系起来，包括学术成就和福祉（El-Amin等人，2017;里瓦斯-德雷克等人，2014年）。然而，ERI和CC很少被同时研究，并且它们的发展在大学生中仍然研究不足（马修斯等人，2019年）。该项目使用纵向混合方法解决了这一经验差距，数据收集发生在2020-2021学年的四个时间点。调查数据将使用以人为中心的纵向过渡分析（LTA）进行分析，首先根据对ERI和CC措施的反应创建集群，然后检查谁可能在哪个集群中，谁会改变，以及这些变化如何与其他变量（如政治保守主义和归属感）相关。此外，将收集为期10天的开放式响应提示，要求参与者描述他们对实时事件的参与并对其产生意义。回答将使用叙事方法进行分析，阐明人与人之间的差异。这种方法和分析的组合允许在背景下对ERI和CC发展进行丰富的调查，推进理论并在具有不同身份和经验的年轻人中促进以公平为导向的结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。