ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2018
Social Status, Discrimination, and Minority Individuals' Mental Health: a Secondary Analysis of US National Surveys.
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- Substance use, racial/ethnic identity, and suicidal ideation during COVID-19 lockdown in an international adult sample.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
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- Violent Victimization, Stressful Events, and Depression: A Longitudinal Study of Young Adults in the U.S.Community mental health journal · 2021Article
- Explaining Health Outcomes of Asian Immigrants: Does Ethnicity Matter?Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2020Article
- Associations between perceived everyday discrimination, discrimination attributions, and binge eating among Latinas: results from the National Latino and Asian American Study.Annals of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Do assets explain the relation between race/ethnicity and probable depression in U.S. adults?PloS one · 2020Article
- Social Determinants of Perceived Discrimination among Black Youth: Intersection of Ethnicity and Gender.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Race, unemployment rate, and chronic mental illness: a 15-year trend analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Article
- Longitudinal Examination of an Ethnic Paradox of Stress and Mental Health in Older Black and Latinx Adults.Clinical gerontologistArticle
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Abstract
objectivesOur study measured minority individuals' social status factors and frequency of discrimination experiences, in order to delineate social mechanisms linking race/ethnicity to mental status (specifically, to current mood/anxiety disorder and self-rated mental health).
methodsIn this nationally representative secondary research, our data analyses drew on the cross-sectional "Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys," dating 2001-2003. The sample for the final model numbered 9368 respondents (2016 Asians, 2676 Latinos, 4676 blacks).
resultsAcross races/ethnicities, better mental health was associated with male gender, higher income, marriage, more education, and less-frequent discrimination experiences; discrimination experiences could impair health, especially among blacks. Marriage's strong contribution to Asians' mental health did not hold among blacks; education's contribution to Latinos' mental health did not hold among blacks either. Blacks' mental health was unaffected by immigration status, but Asian and Latino immigrants showed less-robust mental health than native-born counterparts.
conclusionsAcross the three racial/ethnic groups studied, differences were noted in relationships between self-reported mental health status and the employed social status and discrimination factors.
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