Franks Andrew S, Nguyen Rin, Xiao Y Jenny, Abbott Dena M
Division of Social, Behavioral, and Human Science, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA 98407, USA.
Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ. 2024 Feb 26;14(3):488-504. doi: 10.3390/ejihpe14030033.
Stigmatization, hostility, and violence towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community have increased sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to conduct research to promote understanding of the effects of such stigmatization on the AAPI community. Accordingly, the present study used a combined minority stress and integrated threat framework to examine whether factors related to AAPI identity would moderate the relationship between stigmatization/threat associated with AAPI identity and increased psychological distress and behavioral vigilance. AAPI individuals were recruited online from both Turk Prime and Reddit and completed measures of perceived stigmatization; integrated threat; depression, anxiety, and stress; and behavioral vigilance. Perceptions of stigmatization and threat predicted relevant outcomes both as individual predictors and in multivariate analyses. However, factors relating to the strength of AAPI identification did not moderate the effects of stigmatization and threat on psychological distress and behavioral vigilance, which is a result that failed to support this aspect of the broader conceptual model on which this project was based. Instead, these proposed moderators were themselves predicted by stigmatization and threat variables. The implications of these findings for effective interventions to alleviate the negative consequences of anti-Asian stigmatization are discussed.
在新冠疫情期间，针对亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民（AAPI）社区的污名化、敌意和暴力行为急剧增加。开展研究以增进对这种污名化对AAPI社区影响的理解非常重要。因此，本研究使用了一种结合了少数群体压力和综合威胁的框架，来检验与AAPI身份相关的因素是否会调节与AAPI身份相关的污名化/威胁与心理困扰增加和行为警惕性之间的关系。通过Turk Prime和Reddit从网上招募了AAPI个体，并让他们完成了感知污名化、综合威胁、抑郁、焦虑和压力以及行为警惕性的测量。污名化和威胁的感知既作为个体预测因素，也在多变量分析中预测了相关结果。然而，与AAPI身份认同强度相关的因素并没有调节污名化和威胁对心理困扰和行为警惕性的影响，这一结果未能支持该项目所基于的更广泛概念模型的这一方面。相反，这些提出的调节因素本身是由污名化和威胁变量预测的。讨论了这些发现对减轻反亚裔污名化负面影响的有效干预措施的意义。
