Chaku Natasha, Curtis Christopher A, Hoyt Lindsay T, Zeiders Katharine H, Niu Li, Sarsar Evelyn, Nair Rajni L
Department of Psychology, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2025 Jan;73(1):60-64. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2162826. Epub 2023 Feb 16.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the moderating effect of discrimination experiences on the association between civic engagement and sleep in youth of color. Participants included 125 college students ( = 20.41, = 1.41, 22.6% cisgender male). Most of the sample (28%) identified as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin; 26% identified as multi-racial/ethnicity; 23% identified as Asian; 19% identified as Black or African American; and 4% identified as Middle Eastern or North African. Youth self-reported their civic engagement (civic activism and civic efficacy), discriminatory experiences, and sleep duration during the week of the 2016 United States presidential inauguration (T1) and again approximately 100 days later (T2). Civic efficacy was associated with longer sleep duration. In contexts of discrimination, however, more civic activism and efficacy was associated with less sleep duration. In contexts of low discrimination, more civic efficacy was associated with longer sleep duration. Thus, civic engagement may contribute to positive sleep among youth of color. Working toward dismantling racist systems may be one way to combat the racial/ethnic sleep disparities that underlie long-term health inequalities.
该研究的目的是调查歧视经历对有色人种青年公民参与和睡眠之间关联的调节作用。参与者包括125名大学生（平均年龄=20.41岁，标准差=1.41，22.6%为顺性别男性）。大部分样本（28%）认定为西班牙裔、拉丁裔或有西班牙血统；26%认定为多种族/族裔；23%认定为亚裔；19%认定为黑人或非裔美国人；4%认定为中东或北非裔。青年们在2016年美国总统就职周（T1）以及大约100天后（T2）自行报告了他们的公民参与情况（公民行动主义和公民效能感）、歧视经历以及睡眠时间。公民效能感与较长的睡眠时间相关。然而，在存在歧视的情况下，更多的公民行动主义和效能感与较短的睡眠时间相关。在低歧视情况下，更多的公民效能感与较长的睡眠时间相关。因此，公民参与可能有助于有色人种青年获得良好睡眠。努力消除种族主义制度可能是消除长期健康不平等背后的种族/族裔睡眠差距的一种方式。
