Liberal Studies Department, California State University-Monterey Bay, 100 Campus Center, Seaside, CA 93955, USA.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2013 Apr;19(2):123-30. doi: 10.1037/a0030099.
The Multi-Site University Study of Identity and Culture (MUSIC) is the product of a research collaboration among faculty members from 30 colleges and universities from across the United States. Using Katz and Martin's (1997, p. 7) definition, the MUSIC research collaboration is "the working together of researchers to achieve the common goals of producing new scientific knowledge." The collaboration involved more than just coauthorship; it served "as a strategy to insert more energy, optimism, creativity and hope into the work of [researchers]" (Conoley & Conoley, 2010, p. 77). The philosophy underlying the MUSIC collaborative was intended to foster natural collaborations among researchers, to provide opportunities for scholarship and mentorship for early career and established researchers, and to support exploration of identity, cultural, and ethnic/racial research ideas by tapping the expertise and interests of the broad MUSIC network of collaborators. In this issue, five research articles present innovative findings from the MUSIC datasets. There are two themes across the articles. Research is emerging about broadening the constructs and measures of acculturation and ethnic identity and their relation to health risk behaviors and psychosocial and mental health outcomes. The second theme is about the relationship of perceived discrimination on behavioral and mental health outcomes among immigrant populations.
多地点大学身份认同与文化研究（MUSIC）是美国 30 所高校的教师合作开展的研究成果。根据 Katz 和 Martin（1997，第 7 页）的定义，MUSIC 研究合作是“研究人员共同努力，以实现产生新知识的共同目标”。这种合作不仅仅是合著，它还是“将更多的能量、乐观、创造力和希望注入到工作中”的一种策略（Conoley & Conoley，2010，第 77 页）。MUSIC 合作背后的理念旨在促进研究人员之间的自然合作，为早期职业和成熟研究人员提供奖学金和指导机会，并通过利用 MUSIC 广泛的合作者网络的专业知识和兴趣，支持对身份认同、文化以及族裔/种族研究思想的探索。在本期中，五篇研究文章呈现了来自 MUSIC 数据集的创新发现。这些文章有两个主题。研究表明，需要拓宽文化适应和族裔认同的结构和衡量标准，以及它们与健康风险行为和心理社会与心理健康结果之间的关系。第二个主题是关于移民群体中感知歧视对行为和心理健康结果的影响。
