Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, 2125 G St NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
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Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2021 Jan;49(1):33-37. doi: 10.1007/s10802-020-00720-w. Epub 2021 Jan 6.
It is exciting to watch intersectionality travel from its roots in Black feminist activism and critical legal studies to increasingly more mainstream research domains such as psychology and psychopathology. We commend Mennies et al. (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2020) for their application of the intersectionality framework to the study of psychopathology and treatment utilization in youth in the ABCD study. We argue, however, that this application falls short of its intersectional promise. We discuss some conceptual and methodological/analytical issues that evidence the focal article's lack of alignment with intersectionality's core tenets, particularly regarding the central role of power and social-structural factors as drivers of inequities across intersectional positions. Specifically, we discuss our concerns with the testing and flattening of intersectionality, the selection and operationalization of intersectional positions, and the use of conventional regression models as quantitative analytical approach. We end by suggesting ways that intersectionality can help reduce the inequities in psychopathology and treatment utilization identified by Mennies et al. (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2020).
观察交叉性从其在黑人女性主义行动主义和批判法律研究中的根源，发展到越来越多的主流研究领域，如心理学和精神病理学，这令人兴奋。我们赞扬 Mennies 等人（《异常儿童心理学杂志》，2020）将交叉性框架应用于 ABCD 研究中对青年精神病理学和治疗利用的研究。然而，我们认为这种应用未能实现其交叉性的承诺。我们讨论了一些概念和方法/分析问题，这些问题表明该焦点文章缺乏与交叉性核心原则的一致性，特别是关于权力和社会结构因素作为交叉性立场不平等的驱动因素的核心作用。具体来说，我们讨论了我们对交叉性的测试和扁平化、交叉性立场的选择和操作，以及使用传统回归模型作为定量分析方法的关注。最后，我们提出了一些方法，通过这些方法，交叉性可以帮助减少 Mennies 等人（《异常儿童心理学杂志》，2020）所确定的精神病理学和治疗利用中的不平等。
