Anti-Asian Attitudes in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: an Exploratory Study

Objective The purpose of this paper was to measure if people with greater “structural literacy,” as indicated by greater awareness of racial and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 impact, would hold fewer negative attitudes against those perceived to be Asian in the context of the COVID-19 pandem...

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Published in:Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2023-08, Vol.10 (4), p.1947-1954
Main Authors: Pahl, Kerstin, Wang, John, Sanichar, Navin, Williams, Sharifa, Nick, Gilbert A., Wang, Lisa, Lekas, Helen-Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Asian
Asian Americans
Attitude
Attitudes
Awareness
Black or African American - psychology
Consciousness
Context
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - ethnology
COVID-19 - psychology
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
Health disparities
Hispanic or Latino - psychology
Hispanic or Latino - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Literacy
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Midlife
Minority & ethnic groups
Neighborhoods
Pandemics
Pandemics - statistics & numerical data
Polls & surveys
Quality of Life Research
Race
Race factors
Racial differences
Racial discrimination
Racial inequality
Racism
Racism - ethnology
Racism - psychology
Racism - statistics & numerical data
Residence
Residential location
Social Inequality
Social Structure
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomics
Surveys
Violence
White - psychology
White - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:Objective The purpose of this paper was to measure if people with greater “structural literacy,” as indicated by greater awareness of racial and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 impact, would hold fewer negative attitudes against those perceived to be Asian in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A survey was administered between April and August 2020 to participants from two longitudinal cohorts in New York State. The survey assessed anti-Asian attitudes relating to COVID-19, awareness of racial and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19, residential location, socioeconomic status, and other demographic information. The sample included 233 Black, Latinx, and White midlife adults from urban, suburban, and rural New York neighborhoods. Multivariable regression modeling was used to assess associations between COVID-19 disparities awareness, an indicator of structural literacy, and anti-Asian attitudes, adjusting for gender, race/ethnicity, residential location, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Results Greater awareness of disparities in COVID-19 was associated with lower levels of anti-Asian attitudes after adjustment (adj-slope =  − 0.358, p  
ISSN:2197-3792
2196-8837
DOI:10.1007/s40615-022-01376-6