Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2011 Jan;17(1):89-97. doi: 10.1037/a0022535.
Few empirical studies have explored the mechanisms through which racial identity, the importance of racial group membership, affects well-being for racial/ethnic minorities. Using a community sample of 161 African American adults, the present study examined whether the association between racial identity (centrality, public regard, and private regard) and life satisfaction is mediated by two identity functions, belongingness and discrimination. Our results indicated that the relationships of centrality and private regard with life satisfaction were mediated by perceptions of belongingness. Furthermore, gender moderated the strength of each of these mediating effects, such that belongingness mediated these relationships for women but not for men. Our results also indicated that the relationship between public regard and life satisfaction was mediated by perceptions of discrimination. Furthermore, higher public regard was related to lower perceptions of discrimination for women but not men. However, a combined model for public regard and life satisfaction as mediated by discrimination failed to show moderated mediation. We discuss these results in relation to research and theory on racial identity and intersectionality.
很少有实证研究探讨种族认同（即个人对其所属种族群体的重视程度）通过何种机制影响少数族裔的幸福感。本研究使用了一个由 161 名非裔美国成年人组成的社区样本，检验了种族认同（中心性、公众评价和私人评价）与生活满意度之间的关联是否通过两种认同功能（归属感和歧视感）来进行中介。结果表明，中心性和私人评价与生活满意度之间的关系受到归属感的中介作用。此外，性别调节了这些中介效应的强度，归属感中介了女性的这些关系，但对男性没有中介作用。我们的结果还表明，公众评价与生活满意度之间的关系受到歧视感的中介作用。此外，较高的公众评价与女性而非男性较低的歧视感有关。然而，公共评价和生活满意度作为歧视的中介的综合模型未能显示出有调节的中介作用。我们将这些结果与种族认同和交叉性的研究和理论联系起来进行讨论。
