Department of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles.
Counseling and Student Development Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2023 Apr;29(2):259-266. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000505. Epub 2021 Dec 2.
We investigated whether gendered racism predicts depressive symptoms and alcohol use severity among Asian American men (AAM) through indirect relations via culture-specific family and external shame.
We analyzed convenience data from 409 AAM. Sample age ( = 21.24), nativity, ethnicity, education, income, and self-reported social class were diverse and controlled for. We path modeled direct associations among gendered racism and depressive symptoms and alcohol use severity, and their indirect (mediated) associations through family and external shame.
About 21% and 25% of the sample met the clinical cutoffs for depressive symptoms and risky alcohol use, respectively. Gendered racism predicted depressive symptoms indirectly via external shame, and predicted alcohol use severity directly and indirectly via family shame. The hypothesized model fits the data better than an alternative model with shame factors as predictors.
Gendered racism is an insidious psychiatric risk factor for AAM and appears to exacerbate family and external shame, which may subsequently and divergently increase depressive symptoms and alcohol use severity. Findings highlight the role of cultural factors within gendered racism-related stress processes among AAM. Future research should consider longitudinal designs and additional mediating and outcome variables to examine the behavioral health sequelae of gendered racism among AAM. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
我们通过特定文化的家庭和外部羞耻感的间接关系，研究性别种族主义是否可以预测亚裔美国男性（AAM）的抑郁症状和酒精使用严重程度。
我们分析了 409 名 AAM 的便利数据。样本年龄（=21.24）、出生地、种族、教育程度、收入和自我报告的社会阶层各不相同，并进行了控制。我们通过路径模型，分析了性别种族主义与抑郁症状和酒精使用严重程度之间的直接关联，以及它们通过家庭和外部羞耻感的间接（中介）关联。
大约 21%和 25%的样本分别达到了抑郁症状和危险饮酒的临床标准。性别种族主义通过外部羞耻感间接预测抑郁症状，通过家庭羞耻感直接和间接预测酒精使用严重程度。与将羞耻感因素作为预测因子的替代模型相比，假设模型更符合数据。
性别种族主义是 AAM 的一种隐蔽的精神风险因素，似乎会加剧家庭和外部羞耻感，这可能会随后以不同的方式增加抑郁症状和酒精使用严重程度。研究结果突出了文化因素在 AAM 中与性别种族主义相关的压力过程中的作用。未来的研究应该考虑采用纵向设计和其他中介和结果变量，以检验 AAM 中性别种族主义对行为健康的后果。
