CSULB Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program

描述（由申请人提供）：M-RISP资助申请的重新提交旨在发展长滩加州州立大学心理学和人类发展系教师的心理健康差异研究能力。坐落在一个高度多样化的民族大都市地区，CSULB有丰富的机会和相关的了解和减少不同文化背景的人群的健康差距的研究需求。M-RISP奖将为教师在研究方面的发展提供机会，这将补充现有的优势，并加强教师研究生产力的势头。我们的M-RISP促进培训参与者的个性化计划，其长期目标是为校外资金提供有竞争力的研究应用。它将（1）涉及教师进行试点工作，这将导致对心理健康差异的竞争性研究补助金;（2）增加研究生和本科生的研究参与，（3）为教师提供研究开发活动;（4）加强心理健康研究的体制基础设施。我们的M-RISP将为参与者提供重新分配的时间，这些时间将由文科学院和心理学系匹配，支付参与者，文书服务，旅行资金，设备资金和最先进的研究技能培训，以促进教师发展，使他们能够进行高质量的研究。与会者将参加定量研究方法和分析方面的研讨会和讲习班（例如，基于网络的调查、每日日记法、结构方程模型），以及定性研究方法和分析（例如，访谈，定性解释），伴随着双周座谈会，包括教师和学生介绍自己的研究和嘉宾演讲和各种其他丰富的活动。我们的M-RISP活动将密切协调与现有的研究（COR）计划由NIMH资助自1981年以来在CSULB指导少数民族本科生对博士研究的就业机会。这里提出的三个项目代表了心理健康研究的关键领域- 1）韩国移民的文化适应，压力和应对; 2）兄弟姐妹对2型糖尿病儿童家庭应对的影响; 3）与强奸受害者披露相关的文化因素，及其对心理健康的影响。该奖项将是及时的，因为加州最近的财政削减减少了大学的研究资源，即使大学已经表明，它的价值和奖励研究生产力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This resubmission of a M-RISP grant application aims to develop the mental health disparities research capability of faculty in the Departments of Psychology and Human Development at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Situated in a highly diverse ethnic metropolitan region, CSULB has abundant opportunities and needs for research relevant to understanding and reducing health disparities in populations with different cultural backgrounds. An M-RISP award would provide opportunities for faculty development in research that would complement the existing strengths and reinforce the momentum of research productivity by faculty. Our M-RISP fosters individualized plans for training participants with the long range objective of producing competitive research applications for extramural funding. It would (1) involve faculty members in conducting pilot work that would lead to a competitive research grant on mental health disparities; (2) increase graduate and undergraduate student research participation, (3) provide research development activities for faculty; and (4) strengthen the institutional infrastructure for mental health research. Our M-RISP would provide reassigned time for participants that would be matched by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Psychology, payment for participants, clerical services, travel funds, equipment funds, and state of the art research skill training for faculty development that will enable them to conduct high quality research. Participants would receive seminars and workshops in quantitative research methods and analysis (e.g., web-based survey, daily diary method, structural equation modeling), as well as qualitative research methods and analysis (e.g., interviewing, qualitative interpretation), accompanied by bi-weekly colloquia including faculty and student presentations of their own research and guest speakers and a variety of other enrichment activities. Our M-RISP activities will be closely coordinated with an existing Career Opportunities in Research (COR) program funded by NIMH at CSULB since 1981 to mentor minority undergraduates toward doctoral studies. The three projects proposed here represent crucial areas of mental health research - 1) acculturation, stress and coping among Korean immigrants; 2) sibling influences on coping in families with a child with Type 2 diabetes; 3) cultural factors related to disclosure by rape victims, and its effect on mental health. The award would be timely because recent fiscal cutbacks by the State of California have reduced University resources for research even though the University has shown that it values and rewards research productivity.