Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Psychology, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2024 Jul;80(7):1582-1595. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23681. Epub 2024 Mar 21.
The present study utilized an intersectional framework to examine if two forms of gendered racism, psychological emasculation and messages about Asian American men being undesirable partners, were associated with Asian American men's nicotine use. We also examined the potential mediating roles of two racial identity statuses, racial conformity and racial immersion.
A sample of 356 Asian American men living in the United States of America (USA) completed a cross-sectional survey via Qualtrics containing measures assessing the aforementioned constructs of interest. The primary analysis examined separate parallel mediation models, situating psychological emasculation and undesirable partner as separate independent variables, racial conformity and racial immersion as parallel mediators, nicotine use as the outcome, and age and employment as covariates.
In separate parallel mediation models, the links between psychological emasculation and undesirable partner on one hand, and nicotine use on the other, were completely mediated only by racial conformity, and not significantly mediated by racial immersion. Specifically, greater endorsement of gendered racism was associated with greater conformity with (and internalization of) these gendered racist beliefs, which in turn were associated with greater nicotine use.
Researchers and practitioners may consider racial conformity as an interventional target to ameliorate Asian American men's nicotine use. Future studies should continue to examine other culturally relevant and/or potentially protective constructs (e.g., on the basis of gender, race, and its intersection) that may mitigate Asian American men's nicotine use.
本研究利用交叉性框架，考察两种形式的性别种族主义（心理去势和有关亚裔美国男性不受欢迎伴侣的信息）是否与亚裔美国男性的尼古丁使用有关。我们还研究了两种种族认同状态（种族从众和种族融合）的潜在中介作用。
一个由 356 名居住在美国的亚裔美国男性组成的样本通过 Qualtrics 完成了一项横断面调查，其中包含评估上述感兴趣的结构的措施。主要分析检查了单独的平行中介模型，将心理去势和不受欢迎的伴侣作为单独的自变量，种族从众和种族融合作为平行的中介，尼古丁使用作为结果，年龄和就业作为协变量。
在单独的平行中介模型中，心理去势和不受欢迎的伴侣与尼古丁使用之间的联系完全通过种族从众来中介，而不是通过种族融合来显著中介。具体而言，对性别种族主义的更大认可与对这些性别种族主义信仰的更大从众（和内化）有关，而这反过来又与更大的尼古丁使用有关。
研究人员和从业者可以考虑将种族从众作为干预目标，以减轻亚裔美国男性的尼古丁使用。未来的研究应继续研究其他文化相关的和/或潜在的保护结构（例如，基于性别、种族及其交叉），这些结构可能会减轻亚裔美国男性的尼古丁使用。
