Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology最新文献

Objectives: American Indian (AI) people are disproportionately impacted by opioid use disorder (OUD) and its associated consequences. However, there is a dearth of published research about substance-use treatment and its efficacy for AI people with OUD. People with OUD, especially those with a longer substance-use history, often have widely variable experiences in their access to and engagement in substance-use treatment. Furthermore, there is a paucity of literature on AI people's perceptions of their substance-use treatment experiences. This study seeks to fill this research gap.

Method: Conventional content analysis was used to document perceptions of substance-use treatment among AI people who have used opioids (N = 45) as well as their suggestions for the improvement of treatment moving forward.

Results: Participants highlighted the importance of connection to nonjudgmental counselors and peers with lived experience, challenges of logistical barriers to treatment (e.g., cost, distances to facilities), the importance of intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation for recovery, and a preference for treatment as respite versus punishment. Participants felt substance-use treatment could be enhanced through the incorporation of Native-centric cultural programming, the integration of social services into substance-use treatment (e.g., housing and vocational training), provision of robust individual and group counseling options, and healing settings that include nature and flexible structures.

Conclusions: Findings should be taken into consideration when establishing and designing substance-use treatment for AI people who have used opioids to ensure appropriate accessibility, feasibility, and implementation concerns are addressed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: The Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale assesses police-based discrimination and shows excellent psychometric properties among Black men. We posit that experiences with law enforcement vary at the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender and are linked to psychosocial outcomes.

Method: Replicate the factor structure of the PLE Scale in an independent sample of Black men (n = 198) and extend the measure by testing its psychometric comparability among Black women (n = 193), Latina women (n = 209), White women (n = 186), Latino men (n = 203), and White men (n = 198). We utilized a U.S.-based online sample (n = 1,187) of 18-26-year-olds. Measurement invariance tests were conducted; multigroup structural equation modeling examined the relationship between the PLE Scale and loneliness, access to environmental reward, depressive and anger rumination, and impulsive sexual behaviors.

Results: The PLE Scale replicates among Black men, does not display adequate psychometric properties among White women, and necessitates partial measurement invariance models across other groups. After accounting for differential item functioning, Black and Latino men report the highest levels of police-based discrimination. Similarities and differences were observed in the association between higher police-based discrimination and more loneliness, depressive, and anger rumination. Access to environmental reward and sexual behaviors displayed measurement bias that precluded comparisons.

Conclusions: While this measure necessitates latent variable statistics to be applied across intersectional identities, it shows adequate psychometric properties to be useful in research among Black, Latino, and White men, Black women and Latina women (but not White women). Last, police-based discrimination appears to be particularly linked to rumination among men. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to understand Pacific Islanders' (PIs) experiences related to accessing psychological services. An interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted to collect and analyze cultural perspectives and frameworks that may assist or prevent this group from seeking help.

Method: This interpretative phenomenological analysis focus group study was conducted with 32 total participants in nine focus groups consisting of cross-generational PIs residing in one western state of the United States. The results yielded multiple contrapuntal themes related to PI meaning-making regarding mental health care.

Results: These were (a) family-centered culture is valued versus family may be dismissive of family members seeking help for mental health needs; (b) history of minimizing mental health needs in PI communities versus a desire for normalizing moving forward; (c) mental health issues are your fault versus external factors are responsible for mental health challenges; (d) emergency room primary mental health resource versus mental health support is too expensive; (e) faith community is helpful versus conflicting religious experiences; and (f) desire for cultural fit versus mistrust of confidentiality in PI community.

Conclusions: These contrapuntal voices/tensions provide unique insights to therapy adaptations when working with PIs. We discuss clinical implications for working with this group and recommendations for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Social support helps people of color (POC) cope with stressors such as racial discrimination. Yet when POC disclose lived experiences of racism, confidants may fail to provide support that meets disclosers' emotional needs. Drawing on theories of shared reality and emotion reappraisal, we compare two emotion-focused social support approaches: validation (conveying that recipients' feelings or responses are appropriate) and reframing (seeking to reduce recipients' distress by offering a more positive perspective).

Method: Two POC samples of Canadian young adults (35% South Asian, 32% East Asian, 9% Black, 8% Southeast Asian, 7% Middle Eastern, 2% Latino/a/e, 1% Indigenous, 6% other; 78% women, 19% men, 2% nonbinary; mean age = 19.9) recalled a lived experience of racism then were randomly assigned to imagine disclosing it to a White or same-race confidant.

Results: In Study 1 (N = 430), POC rated validation as more helpful than reframing and forecasted larger gaps between desired and expected support from White than same-race confidants. Study 2 (N = 651) found that (a) experiences of racism are disclosed to same-race and White confidants more often than other groups and (b) imagining a confidant's reframing (vs. validating) response led to worse overall affect, less perceived responsiveness, less racial shared reality, and more rumination. In both studies, the gap between validation and reframing on perceived support increased for experiences that participants more strongly attributed to race, especially when disclosed to White confidants.

Conclusions: Implications for providing responsive emotional support for lived experiences of racism are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: This study responds to the suicide crisis among Black youth populations by tailoring suicide interventions to meet their specific cultural needs. We obtained insight from community stakeholders about culturally adapting suicide prevention interventions for Black youth, using the Linking Individuals Needing Care intervention as an example. Method: Using a culturally adaptive qualitative design Process, we conducted a series of community-engaged focus groups over 6 months with four distinct participant groups of diverse genders, including Black youth ages 13-19, caregivers, community members, and providers. Our participants (N = 58) provided feedback on intervention adaptations in a reiterative process aligned with the Ecological Validity Model. Results: We found recommendations for deep-structure-level cultural adaptations versus surface-structure-level adaptations. Themes included (1) Using wellness and collective focused language, (2) Prioritizing mutual trust, (3) Disrupting and reframing cultural myths, (4) Integrating Black-focused content to validate identities, (5) Affirming Black youth and family protective factors and stressors, (6) Developing relevant and attainable youth and family goals, (7) Infusing culture into crisis planning, and (8) Creating a Black-centered community of care. Findings illuminate the need for a focus on racial socialization and validating the strengths of Black youth versus their struggles, which is meaningful for suicide prevention efforts. Conclusions: For suicide prevention intervention design with Black youth, community feedback needs to be prioritized, deep-structure level adaptations included, and racial socialization content embedded. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Ethnic miming, or impersonating stereotypical caricatures of marginalized groups, remains popular despite years of protests. Previous studies highlight that individual differences in ideological orientations predicting a range of intergroup attitudes-namely, social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)-also predict support for ethnic miming. We propose that blatant dehumanization of the target groups is an underlying mechanism that helps to further explain why support for ethnic miming is stronger among individuals higher in SDO and RWA. Studies from the Netherlands (Study 1) and the United States (Study 2) provide support for this notion.

Method: The samples consisted of participants residing in the Netherlands (N = 142; Study 1) and the United States (N = 298; Study 2), the majority of whom identified as part of the dominant ethnic group (82% ethnically Dutch, Study 1; 76% White American, Study 2). We used both mediation and cluster analyses to test our hypotheses.

Results: The mediation analyses reveal indirect effects from each of SDO and RWA to support for ethnic miming via blatant dehumanization. Additionally, the cluster analyses reveal that although some individuals who support ethnic miming have relatively egalitarian attitudes, others have attitudes that arguably reflect a sense of cultural superiority and preference for cultural dominance (i.e., high SDO, RWA, and blatant dehumanization).

Conclusion: The findings suggest that a sense of cultural superiority and preference for cultural dominance helps to explain why support for ethnic miming persists in both cultural contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Suicide risk among Latina adolescents is shaped by dynamic interactions among emotional, behavioral, and sociocultural factors. This study develops a causal feedback theory to illustrate how these factors reinforce or mitigate suicide risk over time.

Method: Using grounded theory analysis, we analyzed qualitative interviews with 60 Latina adolescents (ages 11-19) recruited from New York City: 30 with a history of suicide attempts and 30 with no reported history of suicidal behaviors. Participants varied by Hispanic cultural group, place of birth, and documentation status.

Results: Our feedback theory is organized around seven categories: cognitive vulnerabilities, avoidant coping, high-risk behaviors, family conflict, social support, cultural socialization, and ethnic identity. A reinforcing loop of cognitive vulnerabilities, avoidant coping, high-risk behaviors, and family conflict was more common among adolescents who had attempted suicide. In contrast, social support, cultural socialization, and ethnic identity functioned as protective mechanisms that disrupted risk loops among those without suicidal behaviors. These findings suggest that while risk factors increase the likelihood of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, access to protective resources can interrupt risk trajectories and promote resilience.

Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of culturally responsive suicide prevention strategies that strengthen social support, cultural socialization, and ethnic pride. By modeling suicide risk as a dynamic system, these findings provide new insights for intervention efforts tailored to the experiences of Latina adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Math stereotypes targeting gender and ethnic-racial groups emerge early in life and are maintained through adolescence, including the middle school age period. These stereotypes undermine girls' and ethnic and racial minority (ERM) children's math interests and confidence, and intervening during middle school may contribute to preventing the impact of stereotypes on math pursuit and persistence. This study examines the impact of a bias-reducing intervention used with adults-exposure to counterstereotypical role models-on diminishing math stereotypes about gender and ethnicity/race among middle school students from ERM groups.

Method: An experiment with middle school girls and boys from schools with predominantly Black and Latinx students examined the effect of exposure to women and men math professionals who vary in their gender and ethnic-racial group memberships on gender and ethnic-racial math stereotypes. The moderating role of math identity was also explored.

Results: The main results showed that boy participants generally expressed stronger gender math stereotypes than girl participants, but exposure to ERM women math professionals reduced boy participants' gender math stereotypes. Further, math identity moderated the impact of exposure to women math professionals. After exposure to women (compared to men) math professionals, boys with weaker math identities and girls with stronger math identities exhibited reduced gender math stereotypes. However, no such effects emerged among boys with strong math identities and girls with weak math identities.

Conclusions: This research underscores the importance of diversity in math professions, and it has implications for the role of intersectionality in addressing math stereotypes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Parental racial socialization refers to the messages children receive about race from their parents. Little is known about parental racial socialization's long-term impact on problematic substance use or whether it can protect against adversities commonly experienced by Black Americans. We examined whether parental racial socialization reduces the risk of problematic substance use and buffers the impact of neighborhood disadvantage and racial discrimination on problematic substance use, with attention to the types of messaging.

Method: Data are from a sample (n = 825) of the Woodlawn Study, a community cohort study that followed Black Americans from Chicago from first grade into midlife (55.3% female), with data collected at ages 6, 16, 32, and 42. Adjusted regression models were run with multiple imputation accounting for missing data.

Results: After controlling for covariates, we found parental racial socialization messages about racial barriers were associated with a lower likelihood of meeting criteria for problematic substance use in midlife (adjusted odds ratio = 0.45, 95% CI [0.22, 0.93]). While racial discrimination and neighborhood disadvantage were statistically significant predictors of problematic substance use in unadjusted models, neither was statistically significant in adjusted models. Neither the interaction term between parental racial socialization and personally mediated racism nor the interaction term between parental racial socialization and neighborhood disadvantage was statistically significant.

Conclusions: Our study suggests the promise of parental racial socialization messages about racial barriers to prevent and reduce the risk of problematic substance use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: We examined item ordering and model-data fit related to items and persons for the frequency and stress appraisal versions of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale (GRMS) using an item response theory approach.

Method: With a sample that included 153 Black college women attending a predominantly White institution in the Southeast United States, we used the partial credit model to evaluate the psychometric properties of the GRMS. We examined model-data fit, rating scale functioning, and item and person locations for the frequency and stress appraisal versions of the items. We compared item ordering between the two versions of the items.

Results: Preliminary analyses suggested that some items did not fit the partial credit model requirements well, and the original rating scale included some uninformative categories. After we dropped several items and recoded the scale, the GRMS exhibited defensible psychometric properties. Our results indicated that there is a progression of various gendered racial microaggressions (GRMs) both in terms of frequency and stress appraisal and that participants distinguished between these GRMs effectively.

Conclusions: The GRMS exhibited acceptable psychometric properties and can be used to understand the progression and nature of GRMs as a construct and to identify individuals who experience different frequencies and stress appraisals of GRMs. This instrument warrants use and exploration in future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).