Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology最新文献

Objectives: This study investigates how the model minority myth (MMM) influences mental health among Asian American and Asian international college students, with particular attention to differences by citizenship and regional background.

Method: Comparative analyses and sequential multiple regression were conducted with 573 students at a U.S. public university to assess the mental health effects of academic- and character-based stereotype exposure.

Results: Asian American students reported significantly higher exposure to academic stereotypes than international peers. Academic stereotypes were associated with poorer mental health among Asian American students, but not among international students overall, indicating a significant moderation effect by citizenship status. Among international subgroups, South/Southeast Asian students exhibited weaker associations between academic stereotypes and distress, but stronger associations with character-based stereotypes.

Conclusions: The psychological impact of the MMM varies by both citizenship and regional origin, underscoring the need for culturally responsive mental health interventions that account for the structural and identity-based diversity within the Asian student population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified discrimination and racist attacks targeting Asian Americans. This challenging context has also created opportunities for individuals to engage in activism and collective action. Despite the significance of this issue, little research has explored how anti-Asian racism throughout COVID-19 has contributed to Asian and Asian American college students' engagement in activism.

Method: Focus group interviews were conducted to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the experiences and perceptions of activism among 34 Asian and Asian American college students (eight international and 26 domestic; M_age = 22.47, SD = 5.31).

Results: Using reflexive thematic analysis, we identified five interconnected themes that characterized participants' experiences: definition of activism, barriers to activism, reasons for activism engagement, forms of activism and advocacy, and activism's impact on relationships.

Conclusions: Implications and future directions to promote collective agency for lasting societal change are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Ethnic-racial socialization is an important cultural-developmental process in U.S. Latinx families and can be influenced by the ethnic-racial compositions of family members' ecologies, much of which extends beyond their neighborhoods. This study examined the ethnic-racial compositions of mothers' mesosystems, operationalized using activity space methods, which capture the set of locations to which individuals are regularly exposed. For Aim 1, we used a person-centered approach to identify profiles of mothers differentiated by the ethnic-racial composition of the activity spaces they navigate. For Aim 2, we explored how identified mothers' activity space profiles predicted ethnic-racial socialization of their adolescents, including cultural socialization and preparation for bias.

Method: The sample included Latinx adolescents (N = 547; M_W1age = 13.31 years; 55.4% girls; 89.6% U.S. born) and their mothers (n = 271 at Wave 1) participating in the Caminos study in Atlanta, Georgia. The present study analyzed data from Wave 5 (2020) and Wave 6 (2020-2021).

Results: We identified four profiles of mothers' activity spaces, and these differentially predicted mothers' ethnic-racial socialization.

Conclusions: Moving beyond the examination of ethnic-racial socialization within singular microsystems (e.g., residential neighborhoods), this study indicates that day-to-day ethnic-racial exposures encountered by Latina mothers may influence how mothers socialize their adolescent children around issues of ethnicity and race. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: The present study explored the association of acculturative stress with alcohol consumption and problems, and whether these associations varied by collectivistic coping style in a predominantly Latino college sample.

Method: Participants were 192 (58.9% female; M_age = 23.4 years, SD = 6.6; 89.6% Hispanic or Latino) undergraduate students from the University of Texas at El Paso that participated in a survey that assessed their acculturative stress, collectivistic coping styles, alcohol use, and associated problems. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to determine the potential moderating effect of collectivistic coping styles on the relationship between acculturative stress and drinking variables.

Results: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed a significant two-way interaction between acculturative stress and seeking social support in predicting monthly drinking frequency, heavy drinking frequency, peak number of drinks, and alcohol problems. They also revealed a significant two-way interaction between acculturative stress and forbearance in predicting heavy drinking frequency and peak number of drinks. The associations between acculturative stress and each of the outcomes were positive at low levels of collectivistic coping style. However, these relationships became increasingly negative as the collectivistic coping style increased.

Conclusions: The present study extends the literature on collectivistic coping by exploring the protective effects of collectivistic coping styles against drinking among Latino college students. Based on current findings, it appears that among Latino students, seeking social support may serve as a protective factor against the effects of acculturative stress on alcohol use and problems and that forbearance may serve as a protective factor against the effects of acculturative stress on alcohol use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema, a multidimensional construct that promotes self-reliance, self-silencing, self-sacrificial caregiving, and resilience, has been linked to depressive symptoms in Black women. Yet, additional research is needed to examine the mechanisms through which this association exists. The present study examines the indirect effect of social support beliefs on the relationship between the SBW schema and depressive symptoms.

Method: Data from a sample of 194 Black women (M_age = 37.53, SD = 19.88) were collected using an online survey assessing internalization of the SBW schema, depressive symptoms, and social support-seeking beliefs.

Results: A primary dimension of the SBW schema, the expectation to manifest strength, was significantly positively correlated with depressive symptoms and negatively correlated with social support seeking. Depressive symptoms were also significantly negatively correlated with social support beliefs. In addition, an indirect effect of support-seeking beliefs was observed between the expectation to manifest strength and depressive symptoms (ab = .12, 95% CI [.02, .24]).

Conclusions: Findings from this study suggest that Black women experience impairing depressive symptoms, which can be explained by race and gender-specific stress-coping ideologies and behaviors, specifically, the SBW schema. Furthermore, the SBW schema is a factor that may contribute to adverse mental health outcomes among Black women vis-à-vis decreased support-seeking beliefs. We discuss the implications of these findings and how these results can help facilitate culturally competent care for Black women. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Familism is a core ideology in Chinese society, yet it has been understudied in this cultural context, potentially attributed to the lack of quantifiable measures. This study sought to develop a reliable and valid scale, the Contemporary Chinese Familism Scale (CCFS), to assess Chinese familism and analyze its structural and psychological characteristics in contemporary China.

Method: The scale development and validation process comprised four studies: in Study 1, literature review, qualitative interviews, and item evaluations by experts were conducted to develop the initial item pool for the CCFS; in Studies 2 and 3, item analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, competing model comparisons, and measurement invariance tests were conducted to examine the structure underlying familism (N₁ = 958, M_age = 25.4 years; N₂ = 570, M_age = 32.01 years); in Study 4, reliability and validity assessments were conducted to further explore the psychometric properties of the final 27-item CCFS using three samples (N₂ = 570, M_age = 32.01 years; N₃ = 710, M_age = 22.37 years; N₄ = 932, M_age = 40.98 years).

Result: A bifactor structure with one general factor and five specific factors (Connection and Closeness, Offspring and Lineage, Honor and Reference, Harmony and Sacrifice, and Care and Help) demonstrated the best fit for the data and supported the multidimensionality of familism in contemporary China. Subsequent psychometric analyses provided initial evidence for the optimal psychometric properties of the CCFS.

Conclusion: This study contributes to our understanding of the multifaceted nature of familism in contemporary China by developing a culturally sensitive scale on Chinese familism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Communication difficulties are inevitable when individuals interact with members of a different culture. The experience of such communication barriers may be particularly salient for those from immigrant families who need to navigate multiple cultures. Youth from immigrant families are known to serve as cultural brokers to help their families navigate communication with those in the host culture. Most brokering research has examined language brokering (i.e., interpreting language for others). An unstudied brokering process and the focus of the present research is emotion brokering: the interpretation of emotion norms for others. In this investigation, we examined the occurrence of emotion brokering for close family members in a sample of Latinx college students.

Method: We conducted an exploratory survey to identify situations where participants perceived intercultural emotion-based misunderstandings and reported emotion brokering (Study 1). We then employed a more focused survey to further understand the contexts in which individuals brokered emotions (Study 2).

Results: Results revealed that many participants encountered intercultural emotion-based misunderstandings and experienced brokering emotions (Studies 1 and 2). Furthermore, the findings illustrated the typical contexts and emotions involved in the emotion brokering experience.

Conclusions: The findings provide insight into a distinct form of cultural brokering. In addition, findings illustrate how cultural variation in emotion impacts daily social interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Research suggests that acculturating to the United States is detrimental for immigrants' health. Consistent with this pattern, higher levels of U.S. acculturation among Latina-American women have been associated with giving birth to lower birth weight babies. The mechanisms that shape this shift in pregnancy health are not clear, but researchers have begun to consider the role of physiological systems that are sensitive to social experience. The present study examined the association of cultural orientation with blood pressure (BP) trajectories over the course of pregnancy.

Method: In a study of 1,011 U.S.- and foreign-born Latina-American women, cultural orientation was assessed and multiple BP measures were collected throughout pregnancy. Postpregnancy data, including gestational age-adjusted birth weight, were extracted from medical records. Bayesian structural equation models examined average BP and slopes of BP change during pregnancy while accounting for psychosocial stress, support, and pregnancy health-related factors (e.g., maternal age, smoking).

Results: We found evidence that greater U.S. orientation was associated with higher diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and steeper increases in DBP, which was associated with less fetal growth.

Conclusions: This is the first evidence that BP may mediate the association between cultural orientation and pregnancy outcomes in Latina-American women. These findings advance our understanding of the biopsychosocial pathways through which acculturation to the U.S. links with health. As scholars seek to better understand the influence of U.S. acculturation on health, focusing on the cardiovascular system and other physiological systems that are sensitive to social experience is warranted and likely to prove valuable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Research highlights the benefits of critical action on individual and community well-being; however, more needs to be understood about the ways ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) influences emerging adults' participation in antiracism actions.

Method: The present study examined patterns of parental ERS messages received by a sample of 668 racially and ethnically minoritized emerging adult college students (M_age = 18.76, SD = 1.23; female = 81.8%), and their associations with the emerging adults' demographic characteristics and three forms of antiracism actions.

Results: A latent profile analysis revealed a five-profile solution and showed variability in patterns of parental cultural socialization and preparation for bias messages. Participants in profiles reflecting far higher than average frequencies of both messages (high frequency) and those who received mean preparation for bias and above-average cultural socialization (culturally focused) tended to engage most frequently across all forms of antiracism.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest the importance of parental ERS messages for fostering engagement in antiracism actions among diverse college students. Results are informative for those who work with minoritized emerging adults navigating racist contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Using longitudinal data, this study investigated the association between parent racial colorblindness and discrimination toward children (reported by both parents and adolescents) in transracial, transnational adoptive families.

Method: Eighty White adoptive parents with adopted Korean children (ages 5-12 years old) were surveyed in 2007 (Time 1 [T1]), and both parents and adolescents (ages 13-19 years old) were surveyed in 2014 (Time 2 [T2]). Parents completed a self-report measure of parent racial colorblindness toward their child at T1 and T2, and parents and adolescents completed a measure of discrimination experienced by adoptees at T2.

Results: Parent reports of racial colorblindness toward their child were not significantly different between T1 and T2. However, parent reports of discrimination increased between time points. Further, parent and adolescent reports of discrimination were not significantly different from one another. Using hierarchical regression models, racial colorblindness among parents at T1 (when children were in middle childhood) was significantly associated with parent reports of discrimination experienced by adolescent children at T2, even when controlling for T2 racial colorblindness. This association did not hold for adolescent reports of discrimination.

Conclusion: Adoptive parents' acknowledgment of their children's race and ethnicity appears relatively stable from childhood into adolescence, and parent racial colorblindness toward their own child can affect their ability to recognize discrimination during adolescent development, a vital period when discrimination becomes more common and salient. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).