Acknowledging Anti-Blackness, Overlooking Anti-Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth.

This paper explores the pathways and barriers to critical consciousness development for Chinese American youth. Thirty-five interviews conducted in 2020 with high-school-aged students in Chicago were analyzed to better understand young people's experiences developing an understanding of anti-Asian racism and anti-Blackness. Results indicated that participants overwhelmingly engaged in sustained conversations about Black Lives Matter and/or made efforts to address anti-Blackness within their families, but engaged in limited conversations about anti-Asian racism. Furthermore, conversations at home and school often failed to contextualize anti-Asian racism, specifically in relation to the experiences of other oppressed groups. Findings highlight a need for research on and practice with Chinese American adolescents to recognize the unique racial positioning of Asian Americans under White supremacy.

Identifying a typology of homelessness based on self-sufficiency: Implications for rapid re-housing interventions.

Limited research exists on the characteristics of individuals experiencing homelessness who achieve positive housing outcomes in rapid re-housing (RRH) interventions. We aimed to identify a typology of homelessness based on Self-Sufficiency Matrix (SSM) domains and examine its relation to sociodemographic characteristics and housing placement through RRH. Homeless Management Information System data, including sociodemographics, SSM domains, and housing outcomes, were obtained for 261 Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program participants in Indianapolis, Indiana, from 2009 to 2012. Latent class analysis (LCA) and latent class regression (LCR) were used to identify subgroups and predict associations between the identified typology and sociodemographic variables and housing placement outcome, respectively. LCA revealed three classes based on SSM domains: "High Self-Sufficiency," "Low Socioeconomic Self-Sufficiency," and "Low Psychosocial Self-Sufficiency." LCR revealed that race significantly predicted class membership such that Black individuals had a significantly higher probability of being in the High Self-Sufficiency class than the other two classes. Latent class membership significantly predicted immediate housing placement. The Low Psychosocial Self-Sufficiency group was the least likely to exit RRH to a permanent housing placement compared to the two other subgroups. Results affirm that individuals with greater psychosocial self-sufficiency have better housing outcomes through RRH than those with more complex support needs. Future research is needed to understand factors influencing differential self-sufficiency, as measured by the SSM, among Black and White individuals.

Social support and networks among people experiencing chronic homelessness: A systematic review.

The objectives of this systematic review were to synthesize available information on social support and social networks among individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, examine the measurement of social support, the impact of social support on outcomes, and the impact of interventions on social support. The authors searched Academic Search Complete, PsycArticles, Pubmed, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Cinahl, and ProQuest for English-language empirical articles published between 1998 and 2019. Studies were included if they sampled single and unaccompanied adults experiencing chronic homelessness and examined the impact of social support and/or social networks. The search yielded 29 studies. Results were synthesized according to research questions and patterns of findings that emerged from included studies. Wide variability in the measurement of social support was found across studies. Nearly all studies found changes in social support associated with housing interventions. A substantial evidence base indicated intervention effects on social support are largely positive. Review findings suggest individuals with substance use disorders may require additional social functioning support once housed. Indigenous people may require tailored interventions to center their cultural values and facilitate existing community strengths. Overall, the results from this review suggest social support plays a key role in the housing experiences and outcomes of individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. Future studies should include qualitative and mixed methods work as these methods revealed important insights about social support. More evidence is needed to inform the development of specific interventions targeting social support to facilitate community integration of formerly homeless individuals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Depression, anxiety, and tobacco use: Overlapping impediments to sleep in a national sample of college students.

OBJECTIVES: To examine how tobacco use and depression/anxiety disorders are related to disturbed sleep in college students. PARTICIPANTS: 85,138 undergraduate respondents (66.3% female, 74.5% white, non-Hispanic, ages 18-25) from the Spring 2011 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment II database. METHODS: Multivariate analyses of tobacco use (none, intermediate, daily) and mental health (diagnosed and/or symptomatic depression or anxiety) were used to predict sleep disturbance. RESULTS: Daily tobacco use was associated with more sleep problems than binge drinking, illegal drug use, obesity, gender, and working >20 hours/week. Students with depression or anxiety reported more sleep disturbances than individuals without either disorder, and tobacco use in this population was associated with the most sleep problems. CONCLUSIONS: Tobacco use and depression/anxiety disorders are both independently associated with more sleep problems in college students. Students with depression and/or anxiety are more likely to be daily tobacco users, which likely exacerbates their sleep problems.