Department of Psychology, Georgia State University.
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut.
Dev Psychopathol. 2021 Dec;33(5):1849-1863. doi: 10.1017/s0954579421001073. Epub 2021 Dec 7.
The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative aims to understand the mechanisms influencing psychopathology through a dimensional approach. Limited research thus far has considered potential racial/ethnic differences in RDoC constructs that are influenced by developmental and contextual processes. A growing body of research has demonstrated that racial trauma is a pervasive chronic stressor that impacts the health of Black Americans across the life course. In this review article, we examine the ways that an RDOC framework could allow us to better understand the biological embedding of racial trauma among Black Americans. We also specifically examine the Negative Valence System domain of RDoC to explore how racial trauma is informed by and can help expand our understanding of this domain. We end the review by providing some additional research considerations and future research directives in the area of racial trauma that build on the RDoC initiative.
NIMH 研究领域标准（RDoC）计划旨在通过多维方法来了解影响精神病理学的机制。迄今为止，有限的研究已经考虑了 RDoC 结构中的潜在种族/民族差异，这些差异受到发展和环境过程的影响。越来越多的研究表明，种族创伤是一种普遍存在的慢性应激源，它影响着黑美国人一生的健康。在这篇综述文章中，我们研究了 RDOC 框架可以帮助我们更好地理解黑美国人种族创伤的生物学基础。我们还特别研究了 RDoC 的负性价值系统领域，以探索种族创伤是如何受到影响的，并可以帮助我们扩大对这一领域的理解。最后，我们在 RDoC 计划的基础上，为种族创伤领域提供了一些额外的研究考虑和未来的研究方向。
