Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Am Psychol. 2024 Nov;79(8):1092-1108. doi: 10.1037/amp0001343.
Black boys and young men are disproportionately burdened with navigating contexts of community violence resulting from race-based structural inequities and concentrated disadvantage. Despite this chronic adversity, many Black boys and young men thrive; however, resilience research has traditionally focused on identifying individual- and family-level factors that support resilience. Research has yet to fully examine community-level resources that facilitate processes of resilience for Black boys and young men in the contexts of trauma, violence, and poverty. Guided by ecological frameworks and using the community-based participatory method of action-oriented community diagnosis, our qualitative study examines the perspectives of diverse community stakeholders (N = 29) whose roles and influence span systems levels and shape contexts of violence and healing for Black boys and young men in Greensboro, North Carolina. Findings point toward relationship (mentoring), community (safe spaces to heal), and societal (interventions to dismantle racism) level opportunities and barriers ("terroristic territorialism") to promote resilience in Black boys and young men. Implications for research and praxis that broadens the scope of resilience research from successful adaptation to conditions of community violence to community-level intervention to promote resilience and transformation are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
黑人男孩和年轻男性不成比例地承受着社区暴力的影响，这些暴力是由基于种族的结构性不平等和集中的劣势造成的。尽管面临这种长期的逆境，许多黑人男孩和年轻男性还是茁壮成长；然而，韧性研究传统上侧重于确定支持韧性的个人和家庭层面的因素。研究尚未充分探讨在创伤、暴力和贫困背景下促进黑人男孩和年轻男性韧性的社区层面资源。本研究以生态框架为指导，采用以行动为导向的社区诊断的社区参与性方法，对不同社区利益相关者（N=29）的观点进行了调查，这些利益相关者的角色和影响力跨越了系统层面，并塑造了北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒市黑人男孩和年轻男性的暴力和治愈环境。研究结果表明，在促进黑人男孩和年轻男性韧性方面，存在着关系（指导）、社区（治愈的安全空间）和社会（消除种族主义的干预措施）层面的机会和障碍（“恐怖主义领土主义”）。讨论了扩大韧性研究范围的研究和实践意义，从成功适应社区暴力条件到社区层面的干预措施，以促进韧性和变革。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
