Discrimination & Short & Long-Term Risks for Depression

描述（由申请人提供）：此K 01申请旨在提供研究技能的专业培训，这些培训将用于支持候选人发展为独立的转化研究科学家，在感知歧视对易感性的短期和长期影响方面拥有专业知识抑郁症。职业发展的四个主要领域将通过课程，阅读，辅导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。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，研究探讨了在个人如何受到歧视影响的具体变量方面仍有许多未回答的问题。本研究的具体目的是：确定群体认同和控制是如何调节感知歧视的短期和长期心理反应的;采用经验抽样方法，考察感知歧视的应对过程与心理结果的关系;并确定在何种程度上的影响，感知歧视的精神病理学可以推广到一个大规模的国家样本的参与者。研究计划采用多方法的方法，使用实验设计，经验抽样和大规模的调查数据来了解这些过程。该奖项将为申请人成为专门从事转化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.