美国州级结构性种族主义和青少年心理健康问题
Paris B Adkins-Jackson1,2, Victoria A Joseph1, Tiffany N Ford3
1Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, United States.
American journal of epidemiology
|July 3, 2024
概括
美国各州的结构性种族主义指标与青少年心理健康有关. 像食品券禁令这样的政策不成比例地增加了黑人青年的抑郁症状,强调了需要国家级干预的需要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 结构性种族主义,嵌入国家政策,显著影响青少年的心理健康.
- 像抑郁症这样的内化症状在美国青年中很普遍.
- 了解国家层面的种族主义与精神困扰之间的联系对于有针对性的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查州级结构性种族主义指标与美国青少年内化症状之间的关联.
- 调查与食品券和重罪剥夺权利相关的具体政策如何影响抑郁症状和自尊.
主要方法:
- 将16个州级结构性种族主义指标与监测未来调查数据 (2015-2019年,n=41,258) 合并.
- 使用回归分析来评估种族主义指标与青少年心理健康结果 (孤独,自尊,自我豁免,抑郁症状) 之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 禁止食品券和临时援助限制重罪毒品定罪的州的黑人青少年患抑郁症状的几率高出1.37倍.
- 在更严重的重罪剥夺权利的州,白人青少年的自我豁免和抑郁症状的几率较低.
- 调查结果表明,与国家政策相关的心理健康结果存在种族差异.
结论:
- 国家层面的结构性种族主义对青少年心理健康有着切实的影响,种族群体间的影响各不相同.
- 通过国家政策改革解决结构性种族主义遗产对于减少美国年轻人的心理痛苦至关重要.
- 这项研究强调了政策变革的必要性,以减轻系统性种族主义对心理健康的后果.
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