Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2023 Sep;72(1-2):48-59. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12667. Epub 2023 Apr 12.
For many Black emerging adult men in the United States, social-structural stressors rooted in racial discrimination are daily experiences that place them at greater risk for poor health. Emerging adulthood is a critical life course period marked by greater experimentation with health risk behaviors. Although Black men's health vulnerabilities during this period are connected to their social-structural environments, investigations of these factors among noncollege sampled Black men remain limited. We conduced thirty semi-structured in-depth interviews to examine associations between social-structural challenges and social-structural resources for resiliency. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and coded using Dedoose web-based qualitative software. Through open coding, emergent concepts were connected across interviews and major themes were identified. We found three core social-structural stressors: (1) Racial profiling, (2) neighborhood violence, and (3) lack of economic opportunities, and three resilience factors: (1) Positive social networks, (2) community-based resources, and (3) safe environments that foster a sense of community. Collectively, these findings provide insight into developing structural- and community-level interventions tailored to bolster resiliency across multiple levels and counteract the social-structural challenges that young Black men face.
对于许多美国的黑人年轻成年男性来说，根植于种族歧视的社会结构性压力是他们日常生活的一部分，这使他们面临更大的健康风险。成年早期是一个关键的人生阶段，其特点是更多地尝试健康风险行为。尽管在此期间，黑人男性的健康脆弱性与其社会结构性环境有关，但对非大学生群体中的黑人男性进行这些因素的调查仍然有限。我们进行了三十次半结构化深度访谈，以研究社会结构挑战与弹性的社会结构资源之间的关联。访谈进行了录音，逐字转录，并使用 Dedoose 网络版定性软件进行编码。通过开放式编码，将访谈中的新兴概念联系起来，并确定了主要主题。我们发现了三个核心的社会结构性压力源：（1）种族貌相，（2）邻里暴力，（3）缺乏经济机会，以及三个弹性因素：（1）积极的社交网络，（2）社区资源，以及（3）促进社区感的安全环境。总的来说，这些发现为制定针对年轻黑人男性的、旨在增强多个层面的弹性和对抗社会结构性挑战的结构性和社区性干预措施提供了深入了解。
