Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
School of Psychological Science, Oregon State University.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Oct;30(4):624-636. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000687. Epub 2024 Jun 3.
Latinx and Asian people are experiencing an elevated rate of immigration status-related oppression-both systematically and individually-despite actual nationality, and this type of cultural stressor has seen a rampant increase recently in the United States. We aimed to assess the relation and effect of immigration status microaggressions on psychological stress and some mechanisms connected to these experiences.
Using a sample of Latinx and Asian college students ( = 776), we unpack the relationships between individual cultural stressors, such as immigration status microaggressions, and psychological stress, by exploring their mediating relation with internalized racism (Mediator 1), and fear of foreign objectification (Mediator 2), using Hayes's (2012) PROCESS Model 6-serial mediation. Furthermore, we expanded on this model, highlighting differences between Latinx and Asian participants (moderator) using a moderated mediation.
Findings suggest a full serial mediation. Specifically, the psychological stress associated with immigration status microaggressions was mediated by internalized racism and fear of foreign objectification. Results also highlighted that Latinx participants, compared to Asian ones, showed a significant positive association between immigration status microaggressions with internalized racism and fear of foreign objectification. Furthermore, a significant interaction for Latinx who experience more fear of foreign objectification was positively associated with psychological stress. Indirect effects for each group are discussed.
Our study is one of the first to explore cultural stress in the form of immigration status microaggressions in connection with more general forms of psychological stress and internalizing processes for two groups historically persecuted around immigration in the United States. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
拉丁裔和亚裔人群尽管实际上具有国籍，但仍经历着移民身份相关压迫的高发率，无论是系统性的还是个体性的，而这种文化压力源最近在美国呈猖獗增长态势。我们旨在评估移民身份微侵犯对心理压力的关系和影响，以及与这些经历相关的一些机制。
使用拉丁裔和亚裔大学生样本（n=776），我们通过探索移民身份微侵犯等个体文化压力源与内化的种族主义（中介 1）和对外来对象化的恐惧（中介 2）之间的中介关系，来剖析这些关系。使用 Hayes（2012）的 PROCESS 模型 6 级串联中介来评估这些关系。此外，我们扩展了该模型，强调了拉丁裔和亚裔参与者之间的差异（调节变量），使用了调节中介。
研究结果表明存在完全串联中介。具体来说，与移民身份微侵犯相关的心理压力受到内化的种族主义和对外来对象化的恐惧的中介影响。结果还强调，与亚洲参与者相比，拉丁裔参与者在移民身份微侵犯与内化的种族主义和对外来对象化的恐惧之间表现出显著的正相关。此外，对于经历更多对外来对象化恐惧的拉丁裔参与者，其恐惧与心理压力之间的相互作用显著为正相关。我们讨论了每个群体的间接效应。
我们的研究是首次探索以移民身份微侵犯形式出现的文化压力与更普遍的心理压力和内化过程之间的关系，研究对象是在美国历史上因移民而受到迫害的两个群体。（PsycInfo Database Record（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
