African American Racial Identity and Coping with Racial Stressors

非裔美国人的种族认同和应对种族压力

• 批准号: 1125519
• 负责人: Robert Sellers
• 金额: $ 44.92万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1125519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: African; American; Racial; Identity; Coping

Racial discrimination is a frequent and often pervasive phenomenon in the lives of many African Americans. Research reveals that more than 60 percent African American adults report encountering racial discrimination in their lives. Frequent experiences with racial discrimination appear to come with some cost to the psychological and physical well-being of African Americans. Indeed, racial discrimination has been consistently implicated in mental health and physical health outcomes for African Americans. Although most of the previous studies linking racial discrimination to measures of mental health have utilized cross-sectional data, recent longitudinal research suggests a causal link between the frequency of perceived racial discrimination and psychological distress such that experiences of racial discrimination leads to subsequent distress. There is also evidence linking racial discrimination to Cardiovascular (CV) activity and physical health outcomes among African Americans. Importantly, not all African Americans are impacted equally by discrimination. One potential source for this differential vulnerability is racial identity. Racial identity is defined as that part of the person's self-concept that is related to her/his membership within a race. The goal of this project is to determine how racial identity attitudes influence appraisal and coping with racial hassles in African American students' everyday lives, whether these students appraise and cope differently with racial and nonracial stressors, and whether racial stressors have a more negative effects on students' mood and cardiovascular activity compared to nonracial stressors. This research project uses mixed-methodologies and consists of five interrelated studies that will explicate the processes by which college students' racial identity attitudes and situational factors interact to influence how they appraise and cope with racial hassles in their everyday lives. The broader impacts of this research are evident in that it will shed light on the physiological implications of racial discrimination that have been linked to broader racial disparities in educational achievement and attainment as well as well being and health for African Americans. The research conducted within this project will also provide an opportunity for students from underrepresented groups to gain greater exposure to psychological research as research assistants and study participants, and will provide a valuable training experience for a number of undergraduate and graduate students.

在许多非裔美国人的生活中，种族歧视是一种常常且常常普遍存在的现象。研究表明，超过60％的非洲裔美国成年人报告说，生活中遇到种族歧视。 频繁的种族歧视经历似乎是为了给非裔美国人的心理和身体健康带来一定代价。确实，种族歧视一直与非裔美国人的心理健康和身体健康成果有关。 尽管以前的大多数研究将种族歧视与心理健康措施联系起来都使用了横断面数据，但最近的纵向研究表明，感知到的种族歧视和心理困扰的频率之间存在因果关系，因此种族歧视的经历会导致后来的困扰。也有证据表明，非洲裔美国人的种族歧视与心血管（CV）活动和身体健康成果联系起来。重要的是，并非所有非洲裔美国人都受到歧视的同等影响。这种差异脆弱性的潜在来源是种族认同。种族身份被定义为与他/他在种族中的成员身份有关的人的自我概念的一部分。该项目的目的是确定种族认同态度如何影响评估并应对非洲裔美国学生的日常生活中的种族麻烦，这些学生对与非种族压力相比学生的情绪和心血管活动有更大的负面影响，对这些学生的评估和应对对种族压力和非种族压力源是否具有更大的负面影响。该研究项目使用混合方法，包括五项相互关联的研究，这些研究将阐明大学生的种族认同态度和情境因素相互作用，以影响他们如何评估和应对日常生活中的种族麻烦。 这项研究的更广泛影响很明显，因为它将揭示种族歧视的生理含义，这与非裔美国人的教育成就和成就以及对教育成就和成就以及健康以及健康的更广泛的种族差异有关。该项目中进行的研究还将为来自代表性不足的小组的学生提供机会，以作为研究助理和研究参与者获得更多的心理研究，并为许多本科生和研究生提供宝贵的培训经验。