This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, will support a 36-month longitudinal study on the impacts of explicit, internalized, and vicarious racial discrimination on daily associations and long-term health trajectories among Filipino, Korean, and Indian American young adults aged 18-19 years.
The $558,048 grant will enable researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park to identify developmental trajectories of alcohol/drug use, mental health, and physical health outcomes, and to evaluate how different types of racial discrimination are associated with these trajectories. The study will also investigate cultural resilience-promoting and universal factors that may moderate the effects of racial discrimination on health. Additionally, the project will use ecological momentary assessment methods to establish the real-time contribution of racial discrimination on daily and next-day alcohol use, mood, and sleep among a nested subsample. The findings are expected to offer novel insights into the cumulative and negative long-term health impacts of ongoing racial discrimination concerns on these marginalized Asian American populations.