CSULB Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本次重新提交的M-RISP拨款申请旨在发展加州州立大学长滩分校心理学和人类发展系(CSULB)教师的心理健康差异研究能力。位于一个高度多样化的民族大都市地区，CSULB有大量机会和需求进行与了解和减少不同文化背景人口的健康差距相关的研究。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率的势头。我们的M-RISP为培训参与者制定了个性化的计划，长期目标是为外部资金产生具有竞争力的研究申请。它将(1)让教职员工开展试点工作，从而为心理健康差距提供竞争性的研究资助；(2)增加研究生和本科生的研究参与度；(3)为教职员工提供研究发展活动；(4)加强心理健康研究的机构基础设施。我们的M-RISP将为参与者提供与文学院和心理学系相匹配的重新分配的时间，参与者的报酬，文书服务，旅行基金，设备资金，以及用于教师发展的最先进的研究技能培训，使他们能够进行高质量的研究。参加者将参加关于定量研究方法和分析(例如，网上调查、每日日记方法、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)的研讨会和讲习班，同时还将举行两周一次的座谈会，包括教职员工和学生介绍他们自己的研究和特邀演讲者，以及各种其他充实活动。我们的M-RISP活动将与CSULB NIMH自1981年以来资助的现有职业研究机会(COR)项目密切协调，以指导少数族裔本科生攻读博士学位。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)与强奸受害者披露有关的文化因素及其对心理健康的影响。这项奖励将是及时的，因为加利福尼亚州最近的财政削减减少了大学用于研究的资源，尽管大学已经表明它重视并奖励研究生产力。

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.