Department of Psychology.
Department of Educational Psychology.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2020;90(6):687-702. doi: 10.1037/ort0000503. Epub 2020 Jun 25.
Experiences of racism contribute to the mental health burden of Black individuals in the United States, and during emerging adulthood, these impacts may be especially intensified. The majority of research on racism captures individual-level experiences and utilizes frequency-based measures. This mixed methods investigation examines convergence and divergence between a measure of recent experiences of racism and a measure of worst experiences of racism at multiple levels (individual, cultural, institutional). A sample of 186 Black college-attending emerging adults ( = 19.36; 62.7% female) reported their recent experiences using a quantitative measure and their worst experiences via a qualitative open-ended response, which were analyzed via convergent parallel design. The results indicated that a majority of reported worst experiences had an institutional-level component. Although the quantitative measure of recent experiences corresponded with reports of individual-level worst experiences, the institutional- and cultural-level worst experiences were rarely fully captured by the recent experiences measure. Implications for the mental health of Black college-attending emerging adults are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
在美国，种族主义经历是导致黑人个体心理健康负担的一个因素，而在成年早期，这些影响可能尤其强烈。大多数关于种族主义的研究都捕捉到了个体层面的经历，并利用基于频率的测量方法。本混合方法研究在多个层面（个体、文化、制度）上检验了最近经历种族主义的测量方法与最坏经历种族主义的测量方法之间的趋同和分歧。186 名黑人大学生（平均年龄 = 19.36；62.7%为女性）通过定量测量报告了他们最近的经历，通过定性的开放式回答报告了他们最糟糕的经历，采用收敛平行设计进行分析。结果表明，大多数报告的最糟糕经历都有制度层面的因素。尽管最近经历的定量测量与个体层面最糟糕经历的报告相符，但制度和文化层面的最糟糕经历很少能被最近经历的测量完全捕捉到。讨论了种族主义经历对黑人大学生成年早期心理健康的影响。
