Stress, Identity, and Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：污名化群体的成员暴露于与偏见有关的社会压力源，这可能会增加他们患精神健康问题的风险。他们面对这些压力源，采取多种应对措施，保护自己免受压力的负面影响。基于社会和心理社会特征的少数群体身份对于确定自我很重要。因此，这些领域的压力源可能会影响不同少数群体的心理健康。身份本身可能与心理健康有关-例如，消极的自我认同可能会诱发心理健康问题-并通过与社会压力源的相互作用-例如，与突出身份相关的压力可能比与外围身份相关的压力具有更多的不利影响。它的目的是描述社会压力，影响少数民族人口，探讨应对和社会支持资源，用于面对这些社会压力，并评估少数民族的身份特征的影响，对协会的压力和心理健康问题。该项目具有理论和实践意义：理论上，它有望通过考虑身份在其中的作用来提高我们对压力研究的理解，并通过建立压力和应对的公式来加强对污名的社会心理学研究。实际上，它可以引导我们进入公共卫生和临床干预的目标领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Members of stigmatized groups are exposed to social stressors related to prejudice that may increase their risk for mental health problems. They confront these stressors by engaging in a multitude of coping responses that can protect them from the adverse effects of stress. Minority identities based on social and psychosocial characteristics are important in defining one's self. Stressors in these areas may therefore affect mental health of diverse minority populations. Identities may be related to mental health both on their own -- e.g., negative self-identity may induce mental health problems --- and through interaction with social stressors --- e.g., stress related to a prominent identity may have more adverse effects than stress related to peripheral identities. It aims to describe social stressors that affect minority populations, explore the coping and social support resources used to confront these social stressors, and assess the impact of minority identity characteristics on the association of stress and mental health problems. The project has both theoretical and practical significance: Theoretically, it promises to enhance our understanding of stress research by considering the role of identity therein, and to enhance social psychological research on stigma, by building on formulations of stress and coping. Practically, it can direct us toward areas that could be targeted for public health and clinical interventions.