Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics, Prague (VSE), W. Churchill Sq. 4, 130 67, Prague 3, Czech Republic.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2021 Aug;8(4):981-989. doi: 10.1007/s40615-020-00854-z. Epub 2020 Aug 28.
This exploratory study sought to test the relationship among race, self-rated health (SRH), and colorblindness, conceptualized as the belief that race/ethnicity should not and does not matter. Independently, SRH, a multidimensional concept entailing physical and psychological health and one's affiliation in an ethnic/racial group, may contribute to racial attitudes. However, little is known about how SRH and racial/ethnic identity in combination may affect colorblind racial attitudes. It was thus hypothesized that SRH would moderate the relationship between race/ethnicity and colorblind racial attitudes. The research sample consisted of 136 autochthonous adults and "individuals with migration backgrounds" residing in Bavaria (Germany), who were divided by self-identified race (whites, n = 85; non-whites, n = 51). The results show that SRH moderates the relationship between race and racial colorblindness. More specifically, it was found that the greater the SRH of the white participants, the less they embraced a colorblind ideology. Conversely, the greater the SRH of the non-white participants, the greater their colorblind racial attitudes. These results suggest that stronger SRH may reduce colorblindness among whites and intensify it among non-whites. The implications of the obtained results may be useful in addressing how surmount barriers to data collection, measurements, and research related to racial and ethnic health disparities in "colorblind" Germany may contribute to health inequalities. Thus, this paper's contribution lies in tracking such disparities to aid their reduction or elimination.
本探索性研究旨在检验种族、自评健康（SRH）和色盲之间的关系，色盲被概念化为认为种族/民族不应该也不重要的信念。独立地，SRH 是一个多维概念，涉及身体健康和心理健康以及一个人在族裔/种族群体中的归属，可能会影响种族态度。然而，对于 SRH 和种族/族裔身份结合如何影响色盲种族态度知之甚少。因此，假设 SRH 将调节种族/族裔与色盲种族态度之间的关系。研究样本由居住在巴伐利亚（德国）的 136 名土生土长的成年人和“有移民背景的个人”组成，他们根据自我认同的种族（白人，n=85；非白人，n=51）进行划分。结果表明，SRH 调节了种族与种族色盲之间的关系。更具体地说，发现白人参与者的 SRH 越高，他们越不接受色盲意识形态。相反，非白人参与者的 SRH 越高，他们的种族色盲态度就越强烈。这些结果表明，更强的 SRH 可能会减少白人的色盲现象，并加剧非白人的色盲现象。获得的结果的意义可能有助于解决如何克服与“色盲”德国的种族和族裔健康差异相关的数据收集、测量和研究障碍，这可能导致健康不平等。因此，本文的贡献在于跟踪这些差异，以帮助减少或消除这些差异。
