Multiracial Discrimination Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation of its Associations with Alcohol Use and Misuse among Multiracial Young Adults

多种族歧视量表：其与多种族年轻人饮酒和滥用之间关系的发展和心理测量验证

• 批准号: 10824821
• 负责人: Fatima Dobani
• 金额: $ 3.84万
• 依托单位: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-25 至 2025-08-24
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10824821
• 关键词: Address; Age; Alcohol consumption; Alcoholism; Alcohols; Automobile Driving; Biological; Characteristics; Data; Development; Dimensions; Discrimination; Disparity; Equation; Ethnic Origin; Ethnic Population; Evidence based intervention; Factor Analysis; Family; Fellowship; First Generation College Students; Focus Groups; Frequencies; Funding; Geographic Locations; Health; Heterogeneity; High Prevalence; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Knowledge; Literature; Measurement; Mediation; Meta-Analysis; Methodology; Methods; Modeling; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; National Research Service Awards; Outcome; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Persons; Population; Psychometrics; Race; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Sampling; Societies; Source; Specificity; Strategic Planning; Structure; Techniques; Testing; Training; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Validation; aged; alcohol misuse; alcohol misuse prevention; alcohol research; alcohol use disorder; binge drinking; career; design; disadvantaged background; drinking; experience; high intensity drinking; instrument; member; minority stress; multi-racial; perpetrators; pre-doctoral; preference; programs; racial discrimination; racial population; sex; sociocultural determinant; sociodemographics; sound; statistics; stressor; theories; training opportunity; university student; young adult

Summary/Abstract Young adulthood is a developmental epoch for alcohol misuse (defined as a pattern of drinking that increases risks for adverse health outcomes). Multiracial (defined as having biological parents of two or more racial/ethnic groups) young adults may be differentially vulnerable to alcohol misuse as they report both the highest prevalence of past-year alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder compared to other racial/ethnic young adults. Multiracial discrimination is a racially relevant stressor for Multiracial young adults and may be associated with alcohol-related disparities, as consistent with minority stress and tension reduction frameworks, as well as robust support for the discrimination-alcohol misuse association in monoracial young adults. However, our knowledge of Multiracial discrimination is fragmented and compounded by measurement concerns. Notably, general discrimination scales are commonly used to assess Multiracial discrimination despite research demonstrating general discrimination and Multiracial discrimination as distinct constructs. Further, existing Multiracial discrimination scales lack specificity with the source of the discriminatory treatment even though discriminatory messages vary by perpetrators and may be differentially associated with health (including alcohol) outcomes. In the absence of a scale capturing the lived experience of Multiracial discrimination among Multiracial people, alcohol researchers cannot resolve whether Multiracial discrimination is a sociocultural determinant of alcohol misuse and contributing to alcohol-related disparities among Multiracial young adults, who are driving substantial demographic change in the United States. Thus, using a sequential mixed methods approach, the proposed project aims to (a) explore and generate a nuanced view of Multiracial discrimination using thematic analysis from Multiracial young adult focus groups, (b) develop and (c) psychometrically validate the Multiracial Discrimination Scale using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and (d) assess concurrent associations between Multiracial discrimination with alcohol misuse using structural equational modeling. Findings of this project will provide alcohol researchers with a psychometrically sound scale to characterize the scope and magnitude of the Multiracial discrimination-alcohol misuse pathway, to potentially highlight an intervention point preceding alcohol misuse, and thus informing the culturally sensitive design of evidence-based interventions implemented to reduce and prevent alcohol misuse among Multiracial young adults. This NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research would provide specialized training in mixed methodologies (e.g., connecting qualitative/quantitative data), psychometric statistics (e.g., test theory), and investigating latent constructs (e.g., structural equation modeling), thus providing instrumental support for my developing research program, and laying out a path for a long, prolific, NIH-funded alcohol research career.

摘要/摘要 青年期是酒精滥用的发展时期（定义为饮酒模式增加， 不良健康后果的风险）。多种族（定义为有两个或两个以上的亲生父母） 年轻人可能对酒精滥用有不同的脆弱性，因为他们报告说， 与其他种族/族裔相比，去年饮酒和酒精使用障碍的患病率最高 年轻人多种族歧视是多种族年轻人的种族相关压力源， 与酒精相关的差异相关，与少数民族压力和紧张减轻一致 框架，以及对摩纳哥青年歧视-酒精滥用协会的大力支持 成年人了然而，我们对多种族歧视的了解是支离破碎的， 性问题值得注意的是，一般歧视量表通常用于评估多种族歧视 尽管研究表明一般歧视和多种族歧视是不同的概念。 此外，现有的多种族歧视量表缺乏对歧视性待遇来源的特异性 尽管歧视性信息因犯罪者而异， （包括酒精）结果。由于缺乏一个衡量多种族生活经验的尺度， 多种族之间的歧视，酒精研究人员无法解决是否多种族歧视 是滥用酒精的社会文化决定因素，并造成了与酒精有关的差异， 多种族的年轻人，他们正在推动美国人口结构的重大变化。因此，使用 顺序混合方法的方法，拟议项目的目的是（a）探索和产生一个微妙的看法， 利用多种族青年重点群体的专题分析，（B）制定和（c） 使用探索性和验证性因素对多种族歧视量表进行心理测量学验证 分析，和（d）评估多种族歧视与酒精滥用之间的并行关联，使用 结构方程模型该项目的研究结果将为酒精研究人员提供一个心理测量学 声音尺度来表征多种族歧视-酒精滥用途径的范围和程度， 潜在地强调酒精滥用之前的干预点，从而在文化上告知 为减少和预防酗酒而实施的循证干预措施的敏感设计 多种族的年轻人。这个NRSA个人博士前奖学金，以促进健康相关的多样性 研究将提供混合方法方面的专门培训（例如，连接定性/定量 数据），心理测量统计（例如，测试理论），并研究潜在的结构（例如，结构方程 建模），从而为我的发展研究计划提供工具支持，并为一个 长期多产的国立卫生研究院资助的酒精研究生涯