Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology最新文献

Objectives: In recent decades, many Indigenous people in Taiwan have left their tribes and migrated to cities. However, there has been limited research focused on understanding the psychological processes that link these migrants' experiences in urban environments and their sleep, a crucial but overlooked aspect of health.

Method: This study conducted and qualitatively analyzed 40 interviews with urban Indigenous migrants aged 25-60 to examine how everyday life experiences in cities shape their sleep.

Results: The analysis finds that urban Indigenous migrants have a high prevalence of sleep disturbance that is attributable to three psychosocial mechanisms that result from experiences of marginalization in their urban lives: (a) enduring stress and unstable schedules in the journey toward better opportunities; (b) feeling marginalized from the ways and cultural logic of urban life that normalizes a fast pace and prioritizes efficiency; and (c) having limited psychosocial resources from an urban social network that is weaker and creates alienation. These psychosocial mechanisms fundamentally interfered with urban Indigenous migrants' sleep time, generated heightened stress, and lowered their resilience during difficult times, which in turn increased the likelihood of sleep disturbance.

Conclusion: The findings (a) document the underlying psychosocial processes of marginalization experiences that cause sleep disturbance among urban Indigenous migrants in Taiwan and (b) contribute empirical evidence from a non-Western society to the global literature on Indigenous health and psychology and to the literature on the psychosocial studies of minority well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Black women may be particularly vulnerable to negative shame experiences, shaped by racism and sexism. Yet, the breadth of research that examines shame experiences from Black women's perspective is limited. This study sought to describe the sociocultural context in which Black women experience shame in America.

Method: Forty Black women (M_age = 41 years) across the United States participated in a narrative study. A thematic analysis focused on understanding shame cues in participant narratives.

Results: One major theme of racialized shame experience was revealed. Sociocultural contexts of these experiences were identified including Black women's state of invisibility; experiences in the workplace and academia; treatment related to skin color, hair, and body; and romantic relationship expectations.

Conclusions: These findings warrant further attention to the consequence of Black women's shame experiences. Implications for addressing shame and well-being for Black women are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: This study examined individual and school factors related to stigma against seeking mental health support among Asian American and Latinx youth and tested whether stigma moderated the link between internalizing symptoms and help-seeking behaviors across different sources of support.

Methods: Data were drawn from a cross-sectional, routine school-based mental health needs assessment. The sample included 1,371 Asian American and 801 Latinx students in Grades 4-12 (M_Grade = 8.52; 51.10% male, 45.72% female, 3.18% prefer not to say). Help-seeking from adults, peers, and professionals was assessed. Multilevel linear and moderated multinomial logistic regression analyses were conducted accounting for nesting within schools.

Results: Results revealed that younger students, Asian American youth (compared to Latinx youth), students who preferred not to share their gender (compared to male students), and youth experiencing internalizing symptoms endorsed higher stigma against help-seeking. Stigma significantly moderated the relationship between internalizing symptoms and help-seeking for both Asian American and Latinx youth for different sources of support. Results indicated that stigma was a barrier for Asian American youth with internalizing symptoms when seeking support from adults, but not from peers or formal services. Meanwhile, stigma was a barrier for Latinx youth seeking support from peers and formal services, but not from adults.

Conclusions: Findings highlight that high stigma is a barrier to seeking help among Asian American and Latinx youth experiencing internalizing symptoms across different sources of support. Findings support the need for stigma reduction interventions, with attention to structural influences on stigma and cultural factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Media exposure to extreme police violence is an increasingly widespread problem that has negative consequences for the mental health of viewers. Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by police violence and its negative consequences, but little is understood from their own perspectives as media viewers.

Method: The present study uses a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to better understand Black American experiences of witnessing lethal police violence toward Black Americans via social media. Participants with exposure to at least one of four viral videos of fatal police encounters with Black Americans were recruited to participate in in-depth interviews.

Results: Key themes emerged related to negative emotional sequelae, including grief, anxious feelings, traumatization, hopelessness, and active efforts to draw on their resilience. Resilience was associated with racial/ethnic pride, sense of community, engagement in activism, and active coping.

Conclusions: Future research is needed to explicate the role of media violence in racial trauma for Black Americans, as well as the collective burden and complex costs this violence and its media accessibility have on society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Using a multimethod approach, this study sought to identify the contribution of different facets of resilience to Pacific peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand's mental health and well-being and to explore the construct of resilience in the light of COVID-19 lockdowns.

Method: Study 1 (N = 88) included a Pacific community sample (67% female, 33% male; M = 39 years, range = 19-80 years). Participants completed a survey measuring personal, spiritual, family and community resilience, well-being, Pacific identity, and mental distress. Study 2 comprised a focus group of one male and three female Pacific university students and used photovoice and talanoa methods. Study 3 comprised two community focus groups of four Pacific men and three Pacific women and was conducted via Zoom using talanoa methods.

Results: In Study 1 greater well-being was associated with greater family resilience, whereas higher access to spiritual support and engagement were associated with lower mental distress. Eight themes were identified across Studies 2 and 3: resilience as overcoming adversity, nature as resilience, resilience as both personal and collective attributes, strength through adversity, vulnerability and coping, gratitude, responsibility that promotes individual resilience, and spirituality.

Conclusions: Taken together, our study demonstrated that Pacific peoples living in Aotearoa exhibit a range of personal, spiritual, and collective attributes that support their resilience, and we discuss the implications of these findings for our theories of resilience, especially for Indigenous groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Understanding how ethnicity and race shape individuals' everyday experiences in context is critical for advancing scientific rigor and addressing ethnic-racial inequities. Daily process studies (e.g., experience-sampling method, ecological momentary assessment, daily diary methods) offer unique utility for studying ethnic-racial discrimination (ERD), ethnic-racial identity, and ethnic-racial out-group contact. The goals of this systematic review were to (a) summarize novel contributions of research using daily process designs to understand these ethnic-racial-related processes in everyday life, and (b) inform avenues for future research directions using daily process approaches to understand everyday ethnic-racial experiences and their implications for health and well-being.

Method: We identified a total of 97 studies from 77 unique study samples that used daily process approaches to measure ERD (52 studies), ethnic-racial identity (33 studies), and ethnic-racial out-group contact (22 studies).

Results: Novel contributions of daily process studies include enhancing external validity by centering individuals' everyday experiences as they go about typical life routines; using time-lagged approaches to test directionality of effects; and identifying within-person variability as a function of social context, individual differences, and time interval.

Conclusions: Our recommendations for advancing integrative daily process studies of ethnic-racial experiences and identity are to include measures of multiple ethnic-racial-related constructs to understand their interrelations and interactions and broaden the representation of study samples in this research (e.g., ethnic-racial backgrounds, developmental periods, regional contexts). Despite limitations (e.g., missing data), daily process approaches offer considerable promise for advancing research on the dynamics and consequences of ERD, identity, and out-group contact in context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Although racially and ethnically minoritized youth are more likely to experience adverse effects of substance use, and substance use before age 14 is strongly associated with an elevated risk of later substance use disorders, there is limited research identifying risk factors for early substance use. The study examined the role of experiencing ethnic discrimination from teachers, other adults outside of school, and other students in predicting early substance use (measured with hair toxicology reports).

Methods: The study used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. The analytic data were drawn from racially and ethnically minoritized participants (N = 269; 50.2% female; M_age = 11.20, SD = 0.86) who provided hair samples at the 1-year (Y1) and 2-year (Y2) follow-ups in 2017-2020 and were identified as at risk for substance use. Participants reported their exposure to ethnic discrimination from teachers, other adults outside of school, and other students. Hair samples were analyzed for evidence of substance use.

Results: Frequentist and Bayesian cross-sectional logistic regressions (discrimination and substance use from the same wave) showed that experiencing ethnic discrimination from teachers was associated with an increased risk of substance use based on hair samples. Only the Bayesian analyses showed ethnic discrimination from other adults was also associated with risk of substance use reflected in hair.

Conclusions: Experiencing ethnic discrimination from teachers, and possibly other adults outside of school, is a significant risk factor for early substance use. Interventions should address teacher- and adult-perpetrated discrimination to reduce the risk of early substance use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: The health repercussions of intergroup bias on members of minoritized groups are massive. This scoping review examines the available peer-reviewed evidence on mindfulness as a moderator of associations between intergroup bias and psychological health indicators.

Method: Peer-reviewed studies of mindfulness moderating associations between intergroup bias and psychological health indicators through May 2024 were surveyed, with no limitations in terms of intergroup bias variety, study context, participants' characteristics, or date of publication. Sixteen articles were eligible and reviewed.

Results: Trait mindfulness moderated negative associations between intergroup bias and psychological health indicators in most studies reviewed, such that the associations are reduced or disappear at high, compared to low, levels of trait mindfulness.

Conclusions: Important caveats of this protective role of mindfulness are discussed, such as the lack of diversity in mindfulness research and interventions, and the potentially silencing effect of mindfulness as construed in mainstream Western contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Racial discrimination is consistently linked to negative mental health outcomes. However, less is known about how unique patterns of coping in Black Americans experiencing high discrimination stress may moderate the association between discrimination and mental health. The present study uses person-centered methods to identify and describe latent profiles of coping in Black Americans, to understand how these coping profiles are linked to mental health, and to examine whether latent coping profiles moderate the links between discrimination and mental health.

Method: Participants were Black Americans (N = 289; M_age = 44.87; 63% women) from the Midlife Development in the United States Milwaukee Refresher study. Latent profile analysis was used to uncover subgroups characterized by distinct patterns of coping strategies. Direct associations between latent profile membership and mental health were examined. Finally, latent profiles were tested as moderators of associations between discrimination and mental health.

Results: Four profiles of coping responses were identified: passive responders (29% of the sample), evasive responders (15%), diverse responders (17%), and engaged responders (39%). Engaged responders had the lowest prevalence of mental health problems. Further, membership in the engaged responders profile moderated associations between discrimination and mental health, such that the associations between racial discrimination and mental health outcomes were generally stronger in other profiles.

Conclusions: Person-centered methods uncovered meaningful subgroups characterized by unique coping patterns and pointed to engaged responders as being most resilient to the effects of discrimination. Future research should test these associations longitudinally and examine whether more adaptive coping profiles can be fostered through intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: In this mixed methods program of research, we investigated Indigenous participants' experiences with racism at a Canadian postsecondary institution.

Method: In Study 1 (N = 8), we interviewed Indigenous students or recent graduates about their experiences with racism and thematically analyzed their responses. We asked questions about what participants thought racism was, how frequently they experienced racism, how experiencing racism made them feel, which racist incidents were the most important to challenge, how they dealt with racism, and their positive experiences on campus as an Indigenous person. In Study 2 (N = 485), we surveyed Indigenous students about their experiences with racism. Participants responded to items about the frequency of potentially racist incidents, how those incidents made them feel, and if they considered those incidents as racist. They also responded to items about positive race-based experiences and their feelings about their on-campus experience.

Results: In Study 1, participants experienced many different types of racism: internalized (including racial microaggressions, modern racism, and old-fashioned racism), interpersonal, institutional, and structural. They also shared the negative impacts of experiencing racism and the ways they challenged and coped with racism. In Study 2, participants indicated that they experienced racism on campus regularly and that these experiences tended to make them feel bad. Participants also experienced positive race-based experiences and felt good in these cases.

Conclusions: Anti-Indigenous racism happens with alarming regularity at the institution and negatively impacts Indigenous participants, though participants actively push back against racism. We discuss the implications and future research directions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).