A Physiological Approach to Examining the Role of Racial Coping on Mental Health Among Black Adolescents

用生理学方法检验种族应对对黑人青少年心理健康的作用

• 批准号: 10751736
• 负责人: Rachel J Davis
• 金额: $ 5.02万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH 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 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10751736
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Adverse effects; Affect; African American; Age; Anxiety; Arousal; Award; Behavioral; Biological; Black Populations; Black race; Child Rearing; Chronic; Cognitive; Coping Skills; Data; Decision Making; Development; Discrimination; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Equilibrium; Future; Galvanic Skin Response; Goals; Health; Hormonal; Individual; Individual Differences; Injury; Intervention; Investigation; Link; Literature; Logistic Regressions; Longitudinal Studies; Measurement; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Methods; Modeling; National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; National Research Service Awards; Nature; Outcome; Parents; Pathway interactions; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Physical assessment; Physiological; Physiological Processes; Population; Prevalence; Process; Psychopathology; Public Health; Race; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Resolution; Risk; Role; Sinus Arrhythmia; Socialization; Stimulus; Stress; Structure; Subgroup; Substance abuse problem; System; Taxes; Testing; Virginia; Youth; allostatic load; anxiety symptoms; cardiovascular risk factor; cognitive function; coping; depressive symptoms; emotion regulation; experience; flexibility; high risk sexual behavior; junior high school; microaggression; neglect; novel; outcome prediction; perceived discrimination; person centered; physical conditioning; positive youth development; psychological distress; psychosocial development; racial discrimination; racial population; racism; research and development; respiratory; skills; social stressor; stress symptom; theories

PROJECT SUMMARY Racial discrimination has been identified as the primary social stressor for Black youth1 where 90% of Black youth (age 8-16) reportedly experienced at least one racial discriminatory encounter.2 As a result of these encounters, Black adolescents experience racial stress, or race-related transactions between individuals and their environment that are perceived as taxing or threaten well-being (e.g., racial microaggressions, threats of harm or injury, and witnessing harm to Black individuals).3,6 Racial stress has been associated with an increase in depression, anxiety, and psychological distress.4 The prevalence of racial stress among Black adolescents is alarming as it increases the likelihood of youth engaging in risky sexual behavior and substance abuse.16To address the pervasive and ubiquitous public health concern of the presence of racial stress in the lives of Black adolescents and their subsequent adjustment, the overarching goal of this NRSA proposal is to utilize a multi-method approach to (1) understand the nature of racial coping among Black adolescents, (2) identify cultural parenting processes that predicts racial coping among Black adolescents, and (3) examine the attenuating effects of racial coping on the association between racial discrimination and mental health (i.e., symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress) among Black adolescents. Present understanding of racial coping among Black adolescents is limited due to (1) the lack of inclusion of physiological processes in racial coping measurement, (2) the use of variable-centered approaches in investigations of racial coping, and (3) the lack of inclusion of emotion socialization in parents’ racial coping socialization. Anticipated findings can ultimately inform the enhancement and tailoring of current and future racial coping and mental health interventions for Black adolescents. The current project leverages data from an existing longitudinal study on Black adolescents’ emotion regulation processes during middle school (grades 6-8) in Richmond, Virginia: Emotion Regulatory Flexibility among African American Adolescents Study (ERFAA; PI: Lozada, NSF CAREER Award: 2046607). The ERFAA study collects relevant data to test the specific aims of this proposal using the assessment of physiological and self-reported arousal and regulation while watching a video vignette of racial discrimination and self-reported measures of racial discrimination experiences depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. Utilizing a person-centered approach will advance the literature by enhancing understanding of: (1) individual differences in racial coping and (2) how those individual differences contribute to the ways racial discrimination is associated with Black adolescents’ mental health. Additionally, I will examine a novel observational measure of parents’ socialization to examine how Black parents' messages about behavioral and emotional coping with racism predict Black adolescents’ racial coping profiles. Results from the proposed research can ultimately inform the enhancement and tailoring of current and future racial coping and mental health interventions for Black adolescents. Anticipated findings have implications for mental and physical health development research among Black adolescent populations and align with the key goals of the NIMH, and the NIMHD. Specifically this proposal includes the integrative investigation of biological, behavioral, and experiential factors during an important developmental period that can inform an understanding of the developmental pathways of health and psychopathology.

项目概要 种族歧视已被确定为黑人青年的主要社会压力源1，其中 据报道，90% 的黑人青少年（8-16 岁）至少经历过一次种族歧视。2 由于这些遭遇，黑人青少年会经历种族压力或与种族相关的交易 个人与其环境之间被认为是负担重或威胁福祉的（例如， 种族微侵犯、伤害或伤害威胁以及目睹黑人受到伤害）。3,6 种族 压力与抑郁、焦虑和心理困扰的增加有关。4 黑人青少年中普遍存在的种族压力令人担忧，因为它增加了青少年 从事危险的性行为和药物滥用。16解决普遍存在的问题 黑人青少年及其生活中存在种族压力的公共卫生问题 经过后续的调整，本次 NRSA 提案的总体目标是利用多种方法 方法（1）了解黑人青少年种族应对的本质，（2）确定文化 预测黑人青少年种族应对的养育过程，以及（3）检查 attenuating effects of racial coping on the association between racial discrimination and mental health （即抑郁、焦虑和压力的症状）在黑人青少年中。目前的理解 黑人青少年的种族应对方式受到限制，原因是（1）缺乏生理因素的包容 种族应对测量的过程，（2）在调查中使用以变量为中心的方法 种族应对的影响，以及（3）父母的种族应对中缺乏情感社会化 社会化。预期的发现最终可以为当前和未来的增强和定制提供信息 黑人青少年未来的种族应对和心理健康干预措施。当前项目 利用现有的关于黑人青少年情绪调节过程的纵向研究的数据 弗吉尼亚州里士满中学（6-8 年级）期间：非洲人的情绪调节灵活性 美国青少年研究（ERFAA；PI：Lozada，NSF 职业奖：2046607）。 ERFAA 研究 收集相关数据，通过生理评估来测试该提案的具体目标 以及在观看种族歧视视频片段时自我报告的兴奋和调节 自我报告的种族歧视措施经历了抑郁、焦虑和压力症状。 采用以人为本的方法将通过增强对以下方面的理解来推进文献的发展：(1) 种族应对方面的个体差异以及（2）这些个体差异如何影响种族应对方式 种族歧视与黑人青少年的心理健康有关。此外，我将检查 对父母社会化的新颖观察测量，以研究黑人父母的信息如何 应对种族主义的行为和情感可以预测黑人青少年的种族应对状况。结果 拟议的研究最终可以为当前和未来的增强和定制提供信息 黑人青少年的种族应对和心理健康干预。预期的调查结果有 对黑人青少年心理和身体健康发展研究的影响 并与 NIMH 和 NIMHD 的主要目标保持一致。具体而言，该提案包括 在重要事件期间对生物、行为和经验因素进行综合研究 发育时期，可以帮助人们了解健康和发育的途径 精神病理学。