Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2024 Aug;54(4):762-774. doi: 10.1111/sltb.13088. Epub 2024 Apr 27.
While suicides in the United States decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, statistically significant decreases have been limited to White people throughout a large portion of 2020.
This paper outlines possible explanations for racial/ethnic differences in suicidality in the early pandemic phases.
We propose both distal (i.e., tele-mental health usage, internet and technology access, employment protections, and economic security) and proximal (cultural beliefs, coping strategies, clustering, pulling together, and embracing life) factors that may have helped build and foster community and mental wellness. However, this paper argues these factors did not extend, or did not extend as much, to many communities of color.
We argue that these disparities are due to the myriad effects of discrimination and systemic racism, encapsulated broadly by the minority stress theory, and provide suggestions for relief and research.
虽然在美国，新冠疫情期间自杀人数有所下降，但在 2020 年的大部分时间里，统计数据显示，这一降幅仅在白人中较为显著。
本文概述了在大流行早期阶段，导致不同种族/族裔之间自杀率差异的可能原因。
我们提出了一些可能有助于建立和培养社区和心理健康的远程心理健康使用、互联网和技术获取、就业保护和经济安全等远程因素，以及文化信仰、应对策略、集群、团结和拥抱生活等近端因素。然而，本文认为这些因素并没有延伸到许多有色人种社区，或者延伸的程度没有那么大。
我们认为，这些差异是由于歧视和系统性种族主义的众多影响造成的，这些影响可以用广义的少数群体压力理论来概括，并为缓解和研究提供了建议。
