Increasing evidence suggests that individual differences in the reporting of microaggressions or subtle forms of everyday discrimination increases risk for poor health, but data on within-person associations between microaggressions and behavioral health outcomes is limited. This study examines the association between daily racial microaggressions and sleep disturbance and assesses whether the association is moderated by stigma consciousness. Participants were 152 Asian American college freshmen (87 male, 65 female) recruited to participate in a 14-day diary study. Perceptions of race-based stigma consciousness, everyday racial microaggressions, and self-reported sleep duration and quality were measured by questionnaire. Multilevel analyses showed that reports of daily racial microaggressions were associated with poorer sleep quality and shorter sleep duration the following day. Higher levels of stigma consciousness predicted greater sleep difficulties. Finally, stigma consciousness moderated the within-person relation between microaggression and sleep. As participants’ levels of stigma consciousness increased, so did their tendency to experience diminished sleep quality and shorter sleep on nights after they reported more racial microaggressions. These results remained robust after adjustments for age, gender, nativity, socioeconomic status, and individual differences in the average level of daily racial microaggressions reported. These results add to a growing literature on the effects of bias and unfair treatment reported by Asian Americans by demonstrating how and when such experiences may be particularly consequential for sleep.

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亚裔美国人的耻辱意识、种族微侵略和睡眠障碍。

越来越多的证据表明，报告微攻击或日常歧视的微妙形式的个体差异会增加健康不佳的风险，但关于微攻击与行为健康结果之间的人内关联的数据有限。这项研究检查了日常种族微攻击与睡眠障碍之间的关联，并评估了这种关联是否受到耻辱意识的调节。参与者是被招募参加为期 14 天的日记研究的 152 名亚裔美国大学新生（87 名男性，65 名女性）。通过问卷调查对基于种族的耻辱意识、日常种族微攻击以及自我报告的睡眠持续时间和质量的看法。多层次分析表明，每日种族微攻击的报告与第二天较差的睡眠质量和较短的睡眠时间有关。更高水平的耻辱意识预示着更大的睡眠困难。最后，耻辱意识调节了微攻击和睡眠之间的人内关系。随着参与者的耻辱意识水平的提高，他们在报告更多种族微攻击后经历睡眠质量下降和夜间睡眠时间缩短的倾向也随之增加。在调整了年龄、性别、出生、社会经济地位和报告的每日种族微攻击平均水平的个体差异后，这些结果仍然稳健。