Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology最新文献

Objectives: The proliferation of social media has resulted in negative consequences such as fear of missing out (FoMO), the anxious feelings one has when others are having rewarding experiences. Few studies have assessed FoMO in Latinx emerging adult college students, none utilizing the socioecological framework. This study assessed the relationships between FoMO and psychological and sociocultural risk and protective factors.

Method: Latinx college students (n = 452; M_age = 19.97 years, SD = 1.89; 77.2% female) completed an online survey assessing demographics, FoMO, social media addiction, depression, anxiety, stress, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, familism, and acculturation. Two multiple linear regressions assessed the associations between FoMO and psychological and sociocultural factors.

Results: Both regressions were statistically significant. First, FoMO was positively associated with social media addiction, depression, and Machiavellianism. Second, FoMO was positively associated with familial honor and negatively associated with familial interconnectedness and ethnic social relations.

Conclusions: Associations between FoMO and psychological factors are consistent with past literature, yet they highlight the need for prospective studies to assess temporality. The fact that FoMO was related uniquely to familistic attitudes suggests the importance of family in FoMO perceptions and the need to assess these associations in a more nuanced manner. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: Across two studies, we explored the relationship between Black civilians' encounters with the police, their attitudes toward the police, perceptions of police legitimacy, and metadehumanization perceptions. We predicted the more negative Black individuals' encounters with the police, the more unfavorable their views of police would be (attitudes and perceived legitimacy) and the more likely they would believe police believe Black people are less than human. We further hypothesized that the relationships between Black Americans negative counters with the police and their views of the police would be mediated by metadehumanization.

Method: Black Americans (N = 522, M_age = 35.85) were either asked about the quality of their interactions with police (Study 1) or randomly assigned to write about a positive, negative, or neutral encounter with police (Study 2). They completed attitudes toward the police and police legitimacy and metadehumanization measures.

Results: Study 1 found the more negative Black individuals' encounters with the police were, the more negative their views were toward police and the more they believed police saw them as less than human. This relationship was partially mediated by metadehumanization. Study 2 demonstrated a causal relationship between negative police encounters and negative perceptions of the police; however, metadehumanization only partially mediated this relationship.

Conclusion: Negative encounters with the police may have lasting negative implications on Black citizens' perceptions of legitimacy but more research is necessary regarding the role of metadehumanization perceptions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic and resurgence of overt anti-Asian racism have prompted many Asian American parents to grapple with ways to discuss race and ethnicity with their children. Racial-ethnic socialization (RES) has been shown to have promotive and protective influences on Asian American adolescents' adjustment but remains understudied among Asian American families with younger children. This study examined parent (i.e., racial-ethnic identity [REI], experiences of discrimination) predictors of RES among Asian American families with preadolescent-aged children and moderation by parental generational status.

Method: We surveyed a sample of 404 Asian American parents (M_age = 38.4, SD = 7.0; 66% female) with 6- to 12-year-olds (M_age = 8.9, SD = 2.0; 56% boys).

Results: Findings revealed that parents with higher levels of REI centrality were more likely to report engaging in cultural maintenance practices and those with higher levels of REI private regard were less likely to minimize race. Parents' experiences of racial discrimination were also associated with more frequent cultural maintenance practices and discussions of anti-Asian discrimination. Tests for moderation by parental generational status indicated that the positive association between experiences of racial discrimination and discussions of anti-Asian discrimination was stronger among first-generation than second+ generation parents.

Conclusion: Findings highlight that among Asian American parents of preadolescent-aged children, RES approaches and practices are nuanced and differentially responsive to parents' views of their own REI, their experiences of racial discrimination, and by generational status. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Our aim was to identify the influence of heritage cultural factors and mainstream Australian cultural norms on young culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) immigrants' alcohol and other drug (AOD) use attitudes, motives for use, and behaviors.

Method: We conducted nine focus groups with 55 youth (aged 16-30; 22 female, 33 male). Participants were from diverse cultural backgrounds including India, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Hazara-Afghanistan, Burma (Chin and Karen), Malaysia, Singapore, and China. They were first- (80%) and second-generation immigrants to Australia.

Results: We constructed three overarching themes: bicultural conflict, freedom versus constraints, and the intersection of gender and culture. Although there were diverse responses, there was widespread recognition of perceived Australian norms around AOD use, particularly drinking alcohol. Our participants reported conformity motives that included fitting in with mainstream Australian culture. Drinking alcohol was also seen as a means for social bonding between immigrant and mainstream youth. Acculturation challenges of reconciling their heritage cultural identity with Australian identity contributed to problematic AOD use.

Conclusions: Further research into the prevalence and predictors of AOD-related harm among CaLD youth in Australia is needed to tailor interventions that draw upon immigrant communities' resilience and enhance positive adaptation outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Prior research has found that to keep their family safe, some undocumented immigrants in the United States engage in "Know Your Rights" family communication-talking to family about their rights, should they be approached by the police or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Although "Know Your Rights" family communication plays a functional role, this study used resilience theory to examine when such communication can be a promotive factor and a risk factor.

Method: To test the hypotheses, we utilized three waves of survey data, with 1-month intervals, from 366 U.S. undocumented college students primarily from Latin America (76% cisgender women; M_age = 22 years, SD = 4.26). Path analysis was employed.

Results: We found that "Know Your Rights" family communication at Wave 1 was positively associated with: (a) greater knowledge of how to respond if approached by police or ICE and (b) greater knowledge of how to help their family if detained 1 month later (Wave 2). Through both types of knowledge taken together, "Know Your Rights" family communication was indirectly associated with higher levels of felt safety 2 months later (Wave 3). Nevertheless, through knowledge of how to help family, "Know Your Rights" family communication was also indirectly associated with higher levels of anxiety 2 months later (Wave 3).

Conclusion: Given the distribution of "Know Your Rights" information on college campuses, our findings can provide evidence for the utility of such messages, while also potentially identifying when it is associated with higher levels of anxiety. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objective: The present study aimed to understand the role of critical action, sociopolitical participation, an essential form of consciousness in the relationship between interpersonal discrimination and the use of tobacco products.

Method: The present study was part of a more extensive longitudinal study on students' genetic and environmental experiences. To examine these associations, 164 racially minoritized college students (M_age = 19.86, SD = 0.28) were surveyed for this study.

Results: Findings indicated that the relation between interpersonal ethnic-racial discrimination (IERD) and tobacco products was moderated by critical action. Specifically, IERD was associated with greater use of tobacco products when students had low critical consciousness-critical action. The relation between IERD and the use of tobacco products became nonsignificant when students had high critical action.

Conclusions: Critical action was protective in mitigating increased tobacco use in the context of discrimination experiences. Research, clinical, and policy implications are discussed in efforts to reduce tobacco-related disparities among racially minoritized college students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: In order for parents, educators, and communities to support racially/ethnically minoritized youth to resist and heal from White supremacy, it is important to examine how youths' beliefs about their ethnic-racial identity (ERI) and critical consciousness (CC) around racism inform one another. Despite this need, limited empirical research examines whether these processes are related across adolescence.

Method: The present two-wave longitudinal study investigates whether ERI content (i.e., centrality, private regard) and CC (i.e., critical social analysis, interpersonal antiracism actions) are associated with one another among Black and Latinx youth N = 233; young women (55.6%); young men (44.4%); M = 14.96 years old, SD = 1.46.

Results: Autoregressive cross-lagged panel models suggested that youths' centrality at W1 was positively and significantly associated with a critical social analysis at W2, and critical social analysis at W1 was positively and significantly associated with private regard at W2 for both groups. Involvement in interpersonal antiracism actions at W1 was positively and significantly associated with private regard at W2 for both groups. Group differences existed in the link between centrality at W1 and interpersonal antiracism actions at W2.

Conclusion: Results indicate that ERI and CC may be viable entry points into stimulating youths' capacity to challenge racism, although there is promise in activating antiracism action to further stimulate ERI development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: This research investigated whether Black people experience social identity threat when anticipating an interaction with a Black-White biracial person.

Method: In both studies, we led Black participants to believe that they would have a discussion with either a Black, Black-White biracial, or White interaction partner. Participants then reported the degree to which they considered their partner a racial ingroup member, their perceptions of their partner's prejudice, their perceived similarity to their partner, and measures of social identity threat that focused on how they expected to be perceived and treated during the interaction.

Results: Participants considered the Black and Black-White biracial partners as racial ingroup members and the White partner as a racial outgroup member. Participants perceived the Black and Black-White biracial partner as being less prejudiced than the White partner. In addition, participants expected to be perceived and treated more positively by both the Black and Black-White biracial partner than by the White partner. Notably, no significant differences existed between the Black and the Black-White biracial partner on any of these dependent variables. Mediational analyses revealed that participants' perceptions of their partner's prejudice and their perceived similarity to their partner independently mediate the effect of the race of the interaction partner on how they expected to be perceived and treated by their partner.

Conclusions: These findings suggest that Black people consider Black-White biracial people to be racial ingroup members and therefore do not anticipate experiencing social identity threat when interacting with a Black-White biracial person. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a period of increased discrimination and hate crimes against Asian Americans. This study examines links between discrimination, as well as feelings of vulnerability, and sleep difficulties among Asian Americans during this time period. In addition, the study investigates both supportive and conflictual romantic partner interactions related to topics of discrimination, race, and activism as possible moderators of this association.

Method: During the COVID-19 pandemic, 92 partnered Asian American adults (M_age = 35.0, 63.0% women) completed online surveys that assessed discrimination, feelings of vulnerability, sleep, discrimination-specific partner support, and partner conflict about anti-Asian racism.

Results: Cross-sectionally, discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with greater sleep difficulties. Feelings of vulnerability in light of Asian hate crimes were additionally associated with greater sleep difficulties. Neither discrimination-specific partner support nor partner conflict about anti-Asian racism buffered these associations.

Conclusions: The present study extends emerging research on discrimination and sleep. Findings point to the significance of evaluating discrimination and emotional reactions to racialized events as potential contributors to sleep difficulties among Asian Americans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Objectives: Traditional cultural connection is an established protective factor in American Indian (AI) health research. Measurement of traditional cultural connection is primarily survey-based, limiting the ability to delineate underlying processes that may be important for advancing culturally grounded mental health prevention and intervention efforts. This study aimed to establish and validate a stimulus set to probe cultural identity and provide a framework for similar development in diverse cultures.

Methods: The sample included 194 self-identified AI participants to view cultural and comparison stimuli across three media types (i.e., audio, video, and pictures). Participants rated each stimulus for arousal, valence, identity relevance, and cultural typicality.

Results: Findings showed cultural stimuli consistently evoked higher responses across media type and domain of reactivity than comparison stimuli (ps < .001, ds = 0.30-2.37). Identity ratings for cultural stimuli across all media types were directly correlated with self-report assessments of AI spirituality and enculturation (rs = 0.22-0.40, ps < .002) as well as inversely associated with acculturation (rs = -0.35 to -0.49, ps < .001).

Conclusions: These findings underline the potential of the devised stimulus set to effectively measure cultural connection in a heterogeneous AI population and offer a framework for broad cross-cultural application in future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).