Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1525, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2011 Dec;37(12):1666-78. doi: 10.1177/0146167211416130. Epub 2011 Sep 1.
Commonplace situations that are seemingly innocuous may nonetheless be emotionally harmful for racial minorities. In the current article the authors propose that despite their apparent insignificance, these situations can be harmful and experienced as subtle racism when they are believed to have occurred because of their race. In Study 1, Asian Americans reported greater negative emotion intensity when they believed that they encountered a situation because of their race, even after controlling for other potential social identity explanations. Study 2 replicated this finding and confirmed that the effect was significantly stronger among Asian Americans than among White participants. These findings clarify how perceptions of subtle racial discrimination that do not necessarily involve negative treatment may account for the "sting" of racial microaggressions, influencing the emotional well-being of racial minorities, even among Asian Americans, a group not often expected to experience racism.
看似无害的常见情况可能会对少数族裔造成情感伤害。在本文中，作者提出，尽管这些情况看似微不足道，但当人们认为它们是因为种族而发生时，就会被视为微妙的种族主义，从而对他们造成伤害。在研究 1 中，亚裔美国人报告说，当他们认为自己因为种族而遇到一种情况时，他们会感到更强烈的负面情绪，即使在控制了其他潜在的社会认同解释之后也是如此。研究 2 复制了这一发现，并证实这种影响在亚裔美国人群体中比在白人参与者中更为强烈。这些发现阐明了即使在亚裔美国人中，即一个通常不被认为会经历种族主义的群体中，那些不一定涉及负面待遇的微妙种族歧视的看法如何能够解释种族微侵犯的“刺痛”，从而影响少数族裔的情绪健康。
