Noh Samuel, Kaspar Violet
Department of Sociology and the Institute for Health and Social Policy, University of Akron, Ohio 44325, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2003 Feb;93(2):232-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.2.232.
The authors evaluated the effects of cultural norms and social contexts on coping processes involved in dealing with perceived racial discrimination. Cross-sectional data derived from personal interviews with Korean immigrants residing in Toronto were analyzed. Among the respondents, active, problem-focused coping styles were more effective in reducing the impacts on depression of perceived discrimination, while frequent use of passive, emotion-focused coping had debilitating mental health effects. The present findings lend greater support to a social contextual explanation than to a cultural maintenance explanation of coping processes. They also suggest that, when empowered with sufficient social resources, racial minority individuals of diverse cultural heritages are more likely to confront than to accept racial bias.
作者评估了文化规范和社会环境对应对感知到的种族歧视所涉及的应对过程的影响。对居住在多伦多的韩国移民进行个人访谈得出的横断面数据进行了分析。在受访者中，积极的、以问题为导向的应对方式在减轻感知到的歧视对抑郁的影响方面更有效，而频繁使用消极的、以情绪为导向的应对方式则会对心理健康产生不利影响。目前的研究结果更支持应对过程的社会环境解释，而非文化维持解释。它们还表明，当拥有足够的社会资源时，具有不同文化背景的少数族裔个体更有可能直面而非接受种族偏见。
