PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0610419
• 负责人: Enrique Neblett
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: Neblett Enrique W
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0610419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PostDoctoral; Research; Fellowship

This National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship will generate new knowledge about coping with race-related stress in African Americans, significantly enhancing the Fellow's skills as a research scientist, and contribute to the future vitality of scientific enterprise. The Fellow will perform his research at Howard University under Dr. Jules Harrell in the Psychology Department. Howard University has an excellent track record in producing research that examines the diversity of the African American experience. Additionally, Dr. Harrell's research investigates physiological systems and personality factors that account for individual differences in responses to stress in people of African descent. The research combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate the relations among racism experiences, racial identity, coping, and cardiac activity. The first phase of the research will recruit first-year African American college students to participate in a longitudinal study of African Americans' experienceswith racism, examining whether: (1) discrimination experiences predict changes in cardiac activity, (2) racial identity buffers the negative effects of race-related stress experiences on changes in cardiac activity, and (3) the relation between discrimination experiences and changes in cardiac output is mediated by racial identity and coping. The second phase of the study will choose a subset of Phase I study participants on the basis of their cardiac activity and racial identity to participate in semi-structured interviews, examining patterns and processes through which African American coping responses relate to cardiac activity. Grounded theory methods will be used to analyze the data, thus allowing for the generation of new theory. The training objectives are to enhance the Fellow's theoretical approaches to the study of race-related stress and coping, to gain skills in psychophysiology, and to build his evolving program of research, which examines the influence of African American experiences with race-related stress and the consequence of these experiences for psychological adjustment. These training goals will help the Fellow attain a tenure-track professorship at a research-extensive university. Seminars, coursework, and participation in the Psychophysiology Laboratory at Howard will expand his scope of training experiences and prepare him to explore copingwith racism in new and innovative ways. Fellowship activities will allow him to build on existing theory, increasing basic knowledge about race-related risk and protective factors, coping, and overall functioning in African Americans.

这个国家科学基金会少数群体博士后奖学金将产生有关应对非裔美国人种族相关压力的新知识，从而大大提高了同胞作为研究科学家的技能，并为科学企业的未来活力做出了贡献。该研究员将在心理学系朱尔斯·哈雷尔（Jules Harrell）博士的领导下在霍华德大学（Howard University）进行研究。霍华德大学在生产研究方面拥有出色的记录，该研究考察了非裔美国人经验的多样性。此外，Harrell博士的研究调查了生理系统和人格因素，这些因素解释了非洲血统对压力的反应中的个体差异。该研究结合了定量和定性方法，以研究种族主义经历，种族认同，应对和心脏活动之间的关系。这项研究的第一阶段将招募一年级的非洲裔美国大学学生，参与对种族主义经历的纵向研究，研究是否可以预测心脏活动的变化，（2）种族认同缓冲种族相关的压力体验的负面影响，对跨性别活动的变化以及（3）差异及其差异的差异和变化。该研究的第二阶段将根据他们的心脏活动和种族认同选择I期研究参与者的一部分，以参与半结构化访谈，研究非裔美国人应对反应与心脏活动有关的模式和过程。接地理论方法将用于分析数据，从而允许生成新理论。培训目标旨在增强同伴对种族相关压力和应对的研究的理论方法，以获得心理生理学的技能，并建立他不断发展的研究计划，该计划研究了非裔美国人在与种族相关的压力以及这些经验的影响方面的影响。这些培训目标将有助于在研究扩展大学获得终身教授职位。霍华德的心理生理学实验室的研讨会，课程和参加会议将扩大他的培训经验的范围，并准备以新颖而创新的方式探索种族主义。奖学金活动将使他能够以现有理论为基础，从而增加有关与种族有关的风险和保护因素，应对和整体功能的基础知识。