Racial Discrimination, Coping, and Underlying Processes in African American Young Adults

非裔美国年轻人的种族歧视、应对方式和潜在过程

基本信息

批准号：
1305679
负责人：
Enrique Neblett
金额：
$ 19.03万
依托单位：
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-09-01 至 2016-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1305679&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Racial Discrimination Coping Underlying Processes

项目摘要

This project investigates how racial discrimination impacts African Americans' physiological functioning and psychological adjustment. Intellectual Merit:This research consists of two studies. The primary research aim of the first study is to combine experimental and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring approaches to examine how African Americans emotionally and physiologically respond to actual racial discrimination that occurs in the lab, over a 24-hour period. Additionally, the study explicates the processes that account for these relationships. The primary research aim of the second study is to examine whether eating as a coping strategy mitigates the impact of racial discrimination on emotional and physiological outcomes. This study also examines whether physiological coping processes mitigate the relationship between racial discrimination and emotional outcomes.Broader Impacts:This research has the potential to: (1) greatly enhance our understanding of how racial discrimination is psychologically experienced and capture the variability in African Americans' experiences; (2) identify the processes that explicate the link between racial discrimination and psychological adjustment and physiological functioning; (3) elucidate how racial discrimination is experienced over time; and (4) provide a conceptual framework and methodological approach that can be employed as tools for future studies. The studies provide an excellent opportunity to investigate causal attribution, cognitive appraisal, and coping processes as potential pathways for understanding the deleterious consequences of racial discrimination. In studying racial discrimination, the studies contribute to the current research literature by employing ecologically valid research designs in which African Americans actually experience racial discrimination. The findings from the research will help to determine whether racial discrimination is a distinct stressor with emotional and physiological consequences that exceed those of nonracial stressors and whether there is more to the experience of racial discrimination than what is currently captured in generic models of stress and coping. Additionally, the studies collectively elucidate the processes that underlie racial discrimination and the ways in which racial discrimination unfolds both within and beyond the laboratory context.

该项目调查了种族歧视如何影响非裔美国人的生理功能和心理适应。智力优点：这项研究由两项研究组成。第一项研究的主要研究目的是结合实验性和卧床血压监测方法，以检查非洲裔美国人在24小时内在实验室中对实验室发生的实际种族歧视的反应如何在24小时内发生。此外，该研究还阐述了解释这些关系的过程。第二项研究的主要研究目的是检查饮食作为应对策略是否减轻了种族歧视对情绪和生理结果的影响。这项研究还研究了生理应对过程是否减轻了种族歧视和情感成果之间的关系。Boader的影响：这项研究具有：（1）极大地增强了我们对种族歧视在心理上经历的理解，并捕捉非裔美国人经历的变异性；（2）确定阐明种族歧视与心理调整与生理功能之间联系的过程；（3）阐明随着时间的流逝如何经历种族歧视；（4）提供了一种概念框架和方法论方法，可以用作未来研究的工具。这些研究为研究因果归因，认知评估和应对过程是理解种族歧视的有害后果的潜在途径提供了一个绝佳的机会。在研究种族歧视时，这些研究通过采用生态有效的研究设计来促进当前的研究文献，在这些研究设计中，非洲裔美国人实际上经历了种族歧视。研究结果将有助于确定种族歧视是否是一种独特的压力源，具有超过非种族压力源的压力和生理后果，以及种族歧视的经历是否比在一般压力和应对模型中所捕获的种族歧视经历更多。此外，这些研究共同阐明了种族歧视的基础的过程以及种族歧视在实验室环境内外展开的方式。