Responses to Racial Discrimination in Asian American Parents and Youth

项目摘要 亚裔美国人是美国增长最快的种族群体，然而，迫切需要解决心理问题， 保健问题严重得不到重视，用于解决这些问题的资源很少。亚洲 美国青少年报告说，相对于其他种族群体， 这是一个重大问题，因为歧视与心理健康之间存在密切关系。反亚裔的批评 在COVID-19大流行期间，歧视和袭击事件显著增加， 亚洲人带来了大流行病。尽管有迫切的需求和家长们表达的担忧， 关于歧视，很少有研究调查亚裔美国人的父母和青少年如何认识和 反对亚裔种族歧视。通过调查和虚拟录像观察， 在他们的家中，我们的项目将研究华裔美国人的父母和青少年如何确定是否有一个 这一事件是歧视性和有问题的。通过116个二对词的样本，我们还将研究中国人如何 美国父母和他们的青少年子女（16 - 18岁）谈论种族偏见。家长和孩子都 要求他们讨论当他们面对一个假设的场景时会怎么做， 种族偏见行为（例如，在公共场所被指责为COVID-19大流行病的罪魁祸首）。我们的目标是 描述父母和青少年在情感上的识别能力和反应方式， 在行为上对这种情况。从观察会话中获得的非语言和语言内容 都会被抓住这些包括分析情绪表达以及父母和青少年 说明他们在这种情况下会做什么（例如，向犯罪者解释他们错了，使用幽默）。我们将 还检查了父母和青少年对彼此的任何建议或期望， 这样的遭遇会发生。我们将研究父母和青少年的特点（他们的报告， 歧视，种族认同）和亲子沟通风格解释了观察到的行为。如何 这些行为与自我报告的父母和青少年心理健康和适应（抑郁和焦虑）有关 症状和自尊）将被确定。亲子对话的观察性研究 遇到针对自己群体的种族偏见是罕见的，也没有对亚裔美国人进行过 家庭这个项目是新颖的，因为观察方法为理解特定的 种族偏见的反应。

PROJECT ABSTRACT Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the U.S., yet the pressing need to address mental health has been woefully underrecognized, with little resources designated to address these concerns. Asian American adolescents report the highest level of racial discrimination by peers relative to other racial groups, a major issue given the robust relationship between discrimination and mental health. Critically, Anti-Asian discrimination and assaults have increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic with blame cast on Asians for bringing about the pandemic. Despite the urgent needs and the concerns expressed by parents about discrimination, few studies have examined how Asian American parents and adolescents recognize and respond to anti-Asian racial discrimination. Through survey and virtual videotaped observations that take place in their homes, our project will examine how Chinese American parents and adolescents determine whether an incident is discriminatory and problematic. Through the sample of 116 dyads, we will also study how Chinese American parents and their adolescent children (16-18 years) talk about racial bias. Parents and children are asked to discuss what they would do when confronted by a hypothetical scenario with which they are the target of an act of racial bias (e.g., being blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic in a public space). Our objective is to describe the ability to recognize and the means in which parents and adolescents respond emotionally and behaviorally to such a situation. Both non-verbal and verbal content obtained from the observational sessions will be captured. These include analysis of emotional expressions as well as what parents and adolescents state they would do in such a situation (e.g., explain to the perpetrator that they are wrong, use humor). We will also examine any suggestions or expectations that parents and adolescents would have for one another if such an encounter were to occur. We will examine how parent and youth characteristics (their report of discrimination, ethnic identity) and the parent-child communication style accounts for observed behaviors. How these behaviors relate to self-reported parent and youth mental health and adjustment (depression and anxiety symptoms, and self-esteem) will be determined. Observational studies on parent-child conversations about encountering racial bias against their own group is rare and has not been conducted with Asian American families. This project is novel as the observational approach lays the groundwork for understanding specific features in the response to racial bias.