A Physiological Approach to Examining the Role of Racial Coping on Mental Health Among Black Adolescents

用生理学方法检验种族应对对黑人青少年心理健康的作用

• 批准号: 10751736
• 负责人: Rachel J Davis
• 金额: $ 5.02万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-25 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10751736
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Adverse effects; Affect; African American; Age; Anxiety; Arousal; Award; Behavioral; Biological; Black Populations; Black race; Child Rearing; Chronic; Cognitive; Coping Skills; Data; Decision Making; Development; Discrimination; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Equilibrium; Future; Galvanic Skin Response; Goals; Health; Hormonal; Individual; Individual Differences; Injury; Intervention; Investigation; Link; Literature; Logistic Regressions; Longitudinal Studies; Measurement; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Methods; Modeling; National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; National Research Service Awards; Nature; Outcome; Parents; Pathway interactions; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Physical assessment; Physiological; Physiological Processes; Population; Prevalence; Process; Psychopathology; Public Health; Race; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Resolution; Risk; Role; Sinus Arrhythmia; Socialization; Stimulus; Stress; Structure; Subgroup; Substance abuse problem; System; Taxes; Testing; Virginia; Youth; allostatic load; anxiety symptoms; cardiovascular risk factor; cognitive function; coping; depressive symptoms; emotion regulation; experience; flexibility; high risk sexual behavior; junior high school; microaggression; neglect; novel; outcome prediction; perceived discrimination; person centered; physical conditioning; positive youth development; psychological distress; psychosocial development; racial discrimination; racial population; racism; research and development; respiratory; skills; social stressor; stress symptom; theories

PROJECT SUMMARY Racial discrimination has been identified as the primary social stressor for Black youth1 where 90% of Black youth (age 8-16) reportedly experienced at least one racial discriminatory encounter.2 As a result of these encounters, Black adolescents experience racial stress, or race-related transactions between individuals and their environment that are perceived as taxing or threaten well-being (e.g., racial microaggressions, threats of harm or injury, and witnessing harm to Black individuals).3,6 Racial stress has been associated with an increase in depression, anxiety, and psychological distress.4 The prevalence of racial stress among Black adolescents is alarming as it increases the likelihood of youth engaging in risky sexual behavior and substance abuse.16To address the pervasive and ubiquitous public health concern of the presence of racial stress in the lives of Black adolescents and their subsequent adjustment, the overarching goal of this NRSA proposal is to utilize a multi-method approach to (1) understand the nature of racial coping among Black adolescents, (2) identify cultural parenting processes that predicts racial coping among Black adolescents, and (3) examine the attenuating effects of racial coping on the association between racial discrimination and mental health (i.e., symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress) among Black adolescents. Present understanding of racial coping among Black adolescents is limited due to (1) the lack of inclusion of physiological processes in racial coping measurement, (2) the use of variable-centered approaches in investigations of racial coping, and (3) the lack of inclusion of emotion socialization in parents’ racial coping socialization. Anticipated findings can ultimately inform the enhancement and tailoring of current and future racial coping and mental health interventions for Black adolescents. The current project leverages data from an existing longitudinal study on Black adolescents’ emotion regulation processes during middle school (grades 6-8) in Richmond, Virginia: Emotion Regulatory Flexibility among African American Adolescents Study (ERFAA; PI: Lozada, NSF CAREER Award: 2046607). The ERFAA study collects relevant data to test the specific aims of this proposal using the assessment of physiological and self-reported arousal and regulation while watching a video vignette of racial discrimination and self-reported measures of racial discrimination experiences depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. Utilizing a person-centered approach will advance the literature by enhancing understanding of: (1) individual differences in racial coping and (2) how those individual differences contribute to the ways racial discrimination is associated with Black adolescents’ mental health. Additionally, I will examine a novel observational measure of parents’ socialization to examine how Black parents' messages about behavioral and emotional coping with racism predict Black adolescents’ racial coping profiles. Results from the proposed research can ultimately inform the enhancement and tailoring of current and future racial coping and mental health interventions for Black adolescents. Anticipated findings have implications for mental and physical health development research among Black adolescent populations and align with the key goals of the NIMH, and the NIMHD. Specifically this proposal includes the integrative investigation of biological, behavioral, and experiential factors during an important developmental period that can inform an understanding of the developmental pathways of health and psychopathology.

项目摘要 种族歧视已被确定为黑人青年的主要社会压力源 据报道，有90％的黑人青年（8-16岁）至少经历了一次种族歧视性遭遇。2 这些相遇的结果，黑人青少年会遇到种族压力或与种族有关的交易 在个人及其环境之间被认为是征税或威胁幸福感（例如， 种族微侵略，伤害或伤害的威胁，并对黑人造成伤害）。3,6种族 压力与抑郁，焦虑和心理困扰的增加有关。4 黑人青少年中种族压力的普遍性令人震惊，因为它增加了青年的可能性 从事风险的性行为和滥用毒品。16解决普遍和无处不在的问题 公共卫生对黑人青少年生活中种族压力的存在的关注 随后的调整，该NRSA建议的总体目标是使用多方法 （1）了解黑人青少年种族应对的性质，（2）确定文化 预测黑人青少年种族应对的育儿过程，（3）检查 种族应对对种族歧视与心理健康之间关联的影响 （即，抑郁症，动画和压力的符号）在黑人青少年中。当前的理解 黑人青少年中的种族应对受（1）缺乏生理的限制 种族应对测量的过程，（2）在调查中使用以可变为中心的方法 种族应对，以及（3）缺乏在父母的种族应对中包括情感社交 社会化。预期的发现最终可以告知当前的增强和裁缝 黑人青少年的未来种族应对和心理健康干预措施。当前项目 从现有的有关黑人青少年情绪调节过程的纵向研究中利用数据 在弗吉尼亚州里士满的中学期间（6 - 8年级）：非洲的情感调节灵活性 美国青少年研究（ERFAA； PI：Lozada，NSF职业奖：2046607）。 ERFAA研究 收集相关数据以使用生理评估来测试该提案的具体目的 并在观看种族歧视的视频小插图时自我报告的唤醒和监管 种族歧视的自我报告措施经历了抑郁，焦虑和压力症状。 利用以人为本的方法将通过增强对以下理解的理解来推进文献：（1） 种族应对的个体差异以及（2）这些个体差异如何促进 种族歧视与黑人青少年的心理健康有关。此外，我将检查一个 新颖的观察性测量父母的社会化，以研究黑人父母的信息 行为和情感应对种族主义预测了黑人青少年的种族应对概况。结果 根据拟议的研究，最终可以为当前和未来的增强和量身定制 黑人青少年的种族应对和心理健康干预措施。预期的发现 黑人青春期人群中精神和身体健康发展研究的影响 并与NIMH和NIMHD的关键目标保持一致。特别是该建议包括 重要的生物学，行为和经验因素的综合研究 可以告知健康发展途径的发展时期 心理病理学。