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裔美国人体验世界的方式中发挥着重要作用。然而，很少有研究以特定事件的分析为单位来检验种族认同。因此，我们很少知道非裔美国人对种族重要性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身份在缓冲经历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，这种研究的缺乏尤其成问题。拟议的研究试图解决当前研究文献中的这一缺点。为此，拟议的研究有 3 个具体目标：1）研究个人稳定的种族身份态度如何与情境特征相互作用，从而影响种族何时成为显着身份； 2）确定种族显着性的特定情境体验是否会影响个人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）调查个人的种族认同态度和情境特征相互作用的方式，以影响个人应对特定种族歧视经历的方式。将从 6 所​​大学招募 740 名自认非裔美国一年级大学生参加为期 4 年的纵向研究。学生的种族认同、种族歧视经历和心理健康指标（抑郁、焦虑和幸福）将在情境和跨情境层面进行评估。除了年度调查外，学生每年还将参加 3 个为期 20 天的条件之一，其中将采用经验抽样技术。这些条件包括种族显着条件、种族歧视条件和控制条件。各种研究将采用多级数据分析技术来实现研究的具体目标。