Biobehavioral Correlates of Racism in Arab Americans

阿拉伯裔美国人种族主义的生物行为相关性

• 批准号: 6953680
• 负责人: RODNEY CLARK
• 金额: $ 15.63万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-29 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6953680
• 关键词: American; Arabs; behavioral /social science research tag; blood pressure; clinical research; coping; culture; health behavior; human subject; neuropsychology; physiologic stressor; prejudice; psychological stressor; racial /ethnic difference; religion; religious group; social integration; social perception

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The frequency of environmental events that could be perceived as racist and stressful has been markedly elevated since 11 September 2001, especially among White Arab Americans. To the extent that acculturative stress and perceptions of racism are related to acute and chronic changes in psychological and physical functioning, an assessment of the biobehavioral factors associated with psychological and physical functioning in this group is especially warranted. In a sample of 450 White Arab Americans, the proposed study will investigate the biobehavioral correlates of acculturative stress and perceived racism. A contextual model is presented that is designed to provide a framework for exploring the relationship of acculturative stress and perceived racism to psychological symptoms and resting blood pressure. The proposed research will examine the following research questions that stem directly from the contextual model: 1) Do religious/spiritual preference, cultural factors, perceived stress, health-risk behaviors, psychological symptoms, blood pressure vary as a function of ethnicity; 2) Do health-risk behaviors, acculturation, and perceived stress vary as a function of religious/spiritual preference; 3) Are cultural factors associated with perceived stress, health-risk behaviors, psychological symptoms, and blood pressure; 4) Are perceived stress, coping resources, and health-risk behaviors associated with psychological symptoms and blood pressure; 5) Does religious/spiritual preference moderate the relationship between ethnicity and perceived stress; 6) Do coping resources or acculturation moderate the relationship of perceived stress to psychological symptoms and blood pressure; 7) Do psychological symptoms predict blood pressure; and, 8) Do coping resources or health-risk behaviors moderate the relationship between psychological symptoms and blood pressure? This project will contribute to the literature exploring relationships among ethnically relevant stressors, psychological functioning, and blood pressure, which may have longer-term implications for psychopathology and vascular functioning in members of some White ethnic groups.

描述（由申请人提供）：自 2001 年 9 月 11 日以来，可能被视为种族主义和压力的环境事件的频率显着增加，特别是在阿拉伯裔美国人中。在某种程度上，文化压力和种族主义认知与心理和身体功能的急性和慢性变化有关，因此特别有必要对与该群体的心理和身体功能相关的生物行为因素进行评估。拟议的研究将以 450 名阿拉伯裔美国人为样本，调查文化适应压力和种族主义感知之间的生物行为相关性。提出了一个情境模型，旨在为探索文化压力和感知种族主义与心理症状和静息血压之间的关系提供一个框架。拟议的研究将探讨直接源于情境模型的以下研究问题：1）宗教/精神偏好、文化因素、感知压力、健康风险行为、心理症状、血压是否随种族而变化？ 2) 健康风险行为、文化适应和感知压力是否会因宗教/精神偏好而变化？ 3) 文化因素是否与感知压力、健康风险行为、心理症状和血压相关？ 4) 感知压力、应对资源和健康风险行为是否与心理症状和血压相关； 5）宗教/精神偏好是否调节种族与感知压力之间的关系？ 6）应对资源或文化适应是否会调节感知压力与心理症状和血压的关系？ 7）心理症状可以预测血压吗？ 8) 应对资源或健康风险行为是否会调节心理症状与血压之间的关系？该项目将有助于探索种族相关压力源、心理功能和血压之间关系的文献，这可能对某些白人群体成员的精神病理学和血管功能产生长期影响。