Department of Counseling and School Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125.
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2024 Dec;23(4):ar57. doi: 10.1187/cbe.24-02-0069.
Steeped in the AsianCrit theoretical framework, the current study examined how anti-Asian hate impacted the mental health of Asian and diasporic Asian doctoral women in STEM. Six emergent themes were identified: 1) Witnessing and Experiencing Anti-Asian Hate; 2) Lack of Institutional and STEM Departmental Support; 3) Impact of Anti-Asian Hate on Asian Women's Mental Health; 4) Protecting One's Mental Health; 5) Resist to Persist; and 6) Calls for Action to Combat Lack of Departmental Support. These findings highlight how Asianization through stereotypes such as the forever-foreigner status, viewing Asians as a monolith, the yellow peril stereotype, and model minority myth simultaneously rendered Asian graduate women hypervisible in the U.S. society and invisible in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Implications for teaching and mentoring are included. These highlight the need for faculty to challenge institutional norms that perpetuate the erasure of the toll that anti-Asian hate levied on Asian doctoral women in STEM.
本研究以 AsianCrit 理论框架为基础，探讨了反亚裔仇恨如何影响 STEM 领域的亚裔和亚裔散居博士女性的心理健康。研究确定了六个突出主题：1）见证和经历反亚裔仇恨；2）缺乏机构和 STEM 部门的支持；3）反亚裔仇恨对亚裔女性心理健康的影响；4）保护心理健康；5）抵抗与坚持；6）呼吁采取行动打击部门支持不足。这些发现强调了通过刻板印象将亚洲人“亚洲化”，例如永远的外国人身份、将亚洲人视为一个整体、黄祸刻板印象和模范少数族裔神话，如何使美国社会中的亚洲研究生女性变得高度可见，而在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域却不可见。研究还包括对教学和指导的影响。这些发现强调了教师需要挑战那些使 STEM 领域的亚裔博士女性所承受的反亚裔仇恨被抹去的机构规范。
