Discrimination & Short & Long-Term Risks for Depression

描述(由申请人提供)：这份K01申请书旨在提供研究技能方面的专门培训，以支持候选人发展为一名独立的翻译研究科学家，拥有在感知到的歧视对抑郁症易感性的短期和长期影响方面的专业知识。职业发展的四个主要领域将通过课程、读物、教程以及与当地和国家专家合作直接将技能应用于拟议的研究来解决。第一个领域是精神病理学评估和病因学方面的培训。第二个领域是心理生理测量和分析方面的培训。第三个培训领域是经验抽样方法。培训的第四个领域是统计建模技术的高级研究。这些职业发展活动与拟议的研究高度结合在一起，该研究审查了在个人如何受到歧视影响的具体变量方面仍有许多悬而未决的问题。这项研究的具体目的是：确定群体认同和控制如何调节对感知到的歧视的短期和长期心理反应；使用经验抽样方法，检查对感知到的歧视的应对过程在多大程度上与心理结果有关；以及确定感知到的歧视对精神病理学的影响可以在多大程度上推广到大规模的全国参与者样本。研究计划采用多方法方法，使用实验设计、经验抽样和大规模调查数据来了解这些过程。这一奖项将为申请者成为一名专门从事翻译研究的独立调查员提供坚实的基础，该研究将社会、临床和健康心理学的理论观点和方法纳入研究，解决心理健康病因学和干预的基本问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This K01 application is designed to provide specialized training in research skills that will be used to support the candidate's development as an independent translational research scientist with expertise in the short and long-term effects of perceived discrimination on vulnerability to depression. Four primary areas of career development will be addressed through courses, readings, tutorials and collaboration with local and national experts in applying skills directly to the proposed research. The first area is training in psychopathology assessment and etiology. The second area is training in psychophysiological measurement and analysis. The third area of training is in experience sampling methodology. The fourth area of training is in advanced study of statistical modeling techniques. These career development activities are highly integrated with the proposed research, which examines the still many unanswered questions in respect to the specific variables that are consequential in how individuals are affected by discrimination. The specific aims of this research are: To identify how group identification and control moderates short and long-term psychological responses to perceived discrimination; To examine, using experience sampling methodology, the extent to which coping processes in response to perceived discrimination relate to psychological outcomes; and to identify the extent to which effects of perceived discrimination on psychopathology can generalize to a large-scale national sample of participants. The research plan adopts a multi-method approach that uses experimental designs, experience sampling, and large-scale survey data to understand these processes. This award will provide a solid foundation for the applicant to become an independent investigator specializing in translational research that incorporates theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches of social, clinical, and health psychology into research addressing fundamental questions in mental health etiology and intervention.