African American Identity, Discrimination and Mental Disorders

非裔美国人的身份、歧视和精神障碍

• 批准号: 7088768
• 负责人: ROBERT M SELLERS
• 金额: $ 34.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7088768
• 关键词: African American; attitude; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; clinical research; coping; human subject; mental health; prejudice; psychological identification; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; self concept; social perception; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research suggests that racial identity attitudes play a significant role in the way in which many African Americans experience the world. However, little research has been conducted examining racial identity at the unit of analysis of the specific event. As a result, little is known how African Americans' stable attitudes and beliefs regarding the significance and meaning of race influence the way in which they experience and behave in specific situations. This dearth of research is particularly problematic given the growing evidence that racial identity plays an important role in buffering the deleterious effects of experiencing racial discrimination on the mental health of African Americans. The proposed study attempts to address this shortcoming in the current research literature. In doing so, the proposed study has 3 specific aims: 1) To examine how individuals' stable racial identity attitudes interact with situational characteristics to influence when race is a salient identity; 2) To determine whether situationally-specific experiences of racial salience influence changes in individuals' stable beliefs regarding the significance and meaning of race in their lives; and 3) To investigate the way in which individuals' racial identity attitudes and situational characteristics interact to influence the way in which individuals cope with specific experiences of racial discrimination. 740 self-identified African American first-year college students will be recruited from 6 universities to participate in a 4-year longitudinal study. Students' racial identity, racial discrimination experiences, and indicators of mental health (depression, anxiety, and well-being) will be assessed at both the situational and trans-situational level. In addition to an annual survey, the students will participate, each year, in 1 of 3 20-day conditions in which experience-sampling techniques will be employed. These conditions include a racial salience condition, a racial discrimination condition, and a control condition. Multilevel data analytic techniques will be employed across the various studies to achieve the specific aims of the study.

描述（由申请人提供）：研究表明，种族认同态度在许多非洲裔美国人体验世界的方式中发挥着重要作用。然而，在分析具体事件的单位中，很少有研究审查种族身份。因此，很少有人知道非洲裔美国人对种族的意义和意义的稳定态度和信念如何影响他们在特定情况下的经历和行为方式。鉴于越来越多的证据表明，种族认同在缓冲种族歧视对非裔美国人心理健康的有害影响方面发挥着重要作用，这种缺乏研究的情况尤其成问题。拟议的研究试图解决这一缺陷，在目前的研究文献。本研究的目的有三：1）考察个体稳定的种族认同态度如何与情境特征相互作用，从而影响种族成为显著性认同的时间; 2）确定种族显著性的情境体验是否影响个体关于种族在其生活中的重要性和意义的稳定信念的变化;（3）探讨个人的种族认同态度和情境特征如何相互作用，影响个人科普种族歧视具体经历的方式。将从6所大学招募740名自认为是非洲裔美国人的一年级大学生参加为期4年的纵向研究。学生的种族身份，种族歧视的经验，心理健康指标（抑郁，焦虑和幸福）将在情境和跨情境水平进行评估。除了年度调查，学生将参加，每年，在3个20天的条件下，其中将采用经验抽样技术之一。这些条件包括种族显著性条件、种族歧视条件和控制条件。多层次的数据分析技术将用于各种研究，以实现研究的具体目标。