Biopsychosocial Pathways Linking Discrimination and Adolescent Health

项目总结 歧视事件是有色人种青少年日常生活经历的一部分，尽管有许多 研究记录了歧视的负面心理和学术影响，我们几乎知道 没有关于歧视是如何影响青少年健康的。然而，正是这些 在成年人和青春期人群中观察到的可能引发种族/民族健康差异的过程 研究这些过程的关键时间是因为社会认知能力的识别歧视待遇 出现在生命的第二个十年。我提议的项目目标是生物人口学和生物心理社会 歧视影响青少年健康和福祉的途径。我有两个主要目标 K01奖：1)获得生物人口学方面的广泛培训，这将建立我作为人口动力学的专业知识 学者和2)使用来自三个国家的次要数据来测试种族/民族歧视的生物心理社会模型 基于人群的研究使用了年轻人的样本和从青少年收集的原始数据。这些 AIMS将使我能够实现我的长期职业目标：a)加强研究生的跨学科培训 以及我所在系的本科生对生命周期中的人口动态和生物标记物的研究 以及b)开发一项R01赠款，以测试更大的生物心理社会模型，该模型将我在 K01奖，审查可能保护青少年免受有害影响的潜在缓冲区 关于歧视的问题。我的K01奖的主要导师是人口学家马克·海沃德，他的生物行为 心理学家伊丽莎白·苏斯曼、青少年健康护理教授林恩·卢和健康心理学家维尔玛 麦克布莱德·默里担任共同导师。我的职业发展计划包括频繁的导师会议，课外- 现场培训课程和会议、现场课程、生物标记物以及卫生领域和实验室经验， 和R01申请准备。这个培训计划对我的研究至关重要，我的研究侧重于三个目标： 1)调查将歧视观念与心理和身体健康联系起来的生物、心理和社会途径， 2)研究SES和SES边缘化如何促进感兴趣的生物-心理-社会途径，以及3) 评估性别和青春期发育对生物、心理和社会途径的影响程度。这个 研究研究包括对NSAL、NLAAS和Add Health的人口数据进行分析，以及 从100名参与者(来自我正在进行的一项更大的研究)收集的基本数据，他们报告 经历各种种族/民族歧视星座。这一培训和研究议程符合 正好在生物人口学不断增长的子领域，在这个领域，生物学的洞察正在被整合到 人口健康和健康动态模型。我的培训和实证研究的基础离开了 我很适合从事这一关键的调查，但我只能在提供的职业发展的情况下这样做 通过这个K01奖。获得K01奖将大大有助于我的智力发展，我的 研究技能，以及我成为独立生物人口学家和人口动力学学者的能力。

PROJECT SUMMARY Incidents of discrimination are part of the everyday life experiences of adolescents of color, and although many studies document the negative psychological and academic repercussions of discrimination, we know almost nothing about how discrimination gets under the skin to influence adolescent health. Yet it is precisely these processes that could initiate racial/ethnic health disparities observed in adult populations, and adolescence is the key time to study these processes since the social-cognitive ability to recognize discriminatory treatment emerges in the second decade of life. My proposed project targets biodemography and the biopsychosocial pathways by which discrimination influences adolescent health and well-being. I have two primary aims for my K01 award: 1) gain extensive training in biodemography that will build my expertise as a population dynamics scholar and 2) test a biopsychosocial model of racial/ethnic discrimination using secondary data from three population-based studies with young adult samples and primary data from collected from adolescents. These aims will allow me to achieve my long-term career goals of a) enhancing interdisciplinary training of graduate and undergraduate students in my department around population dynamics and biomarkers across the lifespan and b) developing an R01 grant that tests a larger biopsychosocial model that integrates what I learn in my K01 award with an examination of potential buffers that might protect adolescents from the pernicious effects of discrimination. My primary mentor for the K01 award is demographer Mark Hayward, with biobehavioral psychologist Elizabeth Susman, adolescent health nursing professor Lynn Rew, and health psychologist Velma McBride Murry serving as co-mentors. My career development plan includes frequent mentoring meetings, off- site training sessions and conferences, on-site coursework, biomarker and health field and lab experiences, and R01 application preparation. This training plan is critical for my research study that focuses on three aims: 1) investigate the biopsychosocial pathways linking perceptions of discrimination to mental and physical health, 2) examine how SES and SES marginalization contribute to the biopsychosocial pathways of interest, and 3) assess the degree to which gender and pubertal development condition the biopsychosocial pathways. The research study includes analyses of population data from the NSAL, NLAAS, and Add Health along with primary data collected from 100 participants (drawn from a larger study that I am conducting) who report experiencing various constellations of racial/ethnic discrimination. This training and research agenda fits squarely within the growing subfield of biodemography, where biological insights are being integrated into models of population health and health dynamics. My training and my foundation of empirical research leave me well-situated to pursue this critical line of inquiry, but I can only do so with the career development provided by this K01 award. Receiving the K01 award would contribute substantially to my intellectual development, my research skills, and my ability to become an independent biodemographer and population dynamics scholar.