Polanco-Roman Lillian, Hollingsworth David W, Liang Connie, Oduro Neena, Anglin Deidre M
Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research.
Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2022;92(6):720-730. doi: 10.1037/ort0000648. Epub 2022 Nov 10.
Rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors have disproportionately increased among ethnoracially minoritized college students. Despite growing evidence suggesting racial/ethnic discrimination may confer suicide-related risk, less is known about mechanisms underlying this relation. The present study aimed to clarify the potential role of anxiety in the association between racial/ethnic discrimination and suicidal thoughts. Participants ( = 747; 61% female; 63% U.S. born) were college students ages 18-29 years old ( = 19.84; = 2.22) who identified from an ethnoracially minoritized background (34% Asian, 33% Latinx/Hispanic, 23% Black, and 10% as other ethnoracially minoritized group). They were recruited from a minority-serving institution in the Northeast United States, and completed a battery of surveys online. Findings from multiple hierarchical linear regression models and bootstrapping procedures suggest there is a direct association between racial/ethnic discrimination and suicidal thoughts among Black college students only, though not among college students identifying as Latinx, Asian, and other race/ethnicity. Further, there was an indirect association between racial/ethnic discrimination and suicidal thoughts through generalized anxiety, though not race-based anxiety or social anxiety, across different ethnoracially minoritized groups. This information would help improve the cultural responsiveness of suicide prevention strategies for college students by refining identification of individuals at greatest risk for the harmful effects of racial/ethnic discrimination and providing more refined targets for intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
在少数族裔大学生中，自杀念头和行为的发生率出现了不成比例的增长。尽管越来越多的证据表明种族/族裔歧视可能带来与自杀相关的风险，但对于这种关系背后的机制却知之甚少。本研究旨在阐明焦虑在种族/族裔歧视与自杀念头之间的关联中可能发挥的作用。参与者（n = 747；61%为女性；63%在美国出生）为18至29岁的大学生（M = 19.84；SD = 2.22），他们来自少数族裔背景（34%为亚裔，33%为拉丁裔/西班牙裔，23%为黑人，10%为其他少数族裔群体）。他们是从美国东北部一所服务少数族裔的机构招募而来，并在线完成了一系列调查。多个分层线性回归模型和自抽样程序的结果表明，仅在黑人大学生中，种族/族裔歧视与自杀念头之间存在直接关联，而在拉丁裔、亚裔和其他种族/族裔的大学生中则不存在这种关联。此外，在不同的少数族裔群体中，种族/族裔歧视与自杀念头之间通过广泛性焦虑存在间接关联，而非基于种族的焦虑或社交焦虑。这些信息将有助于通过更精准地识别受种族/族裔歧视有害影响风险最大的个体，并提供更精准的干预目标，来提高针对大学生的自杀预防策略的文化适应性。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2022美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
