ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2019
The Relationship Between Mixed Race/Ethnicity, Developmental Assets, and Mental Health Among Youth.
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- Assessing the Prevalence Rates of Internalizing Symptomatology Among Multiracial Adolescents in the United States: A Systematic Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Pooled it
- Health Status And Delays In Referral-To-Treatment Waiting Times for Elective Admissions of Adults From Deprived Areas And Ethnic Minority Backgrounds: A Study of Healthcare Inequalities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Developmental Asset Profiles as Moderators of the Association Between Intersectional Discrimination and Mental Health Among Black Sexual Minority Men.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2026Article
- Types of ethnic-racial identity belongingness predicting mental health and suicide ideation: Exploring racial and gender differences among Latine-White and Black-White Multiracial adolescents.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Mapping Multiracial Versus Monoracial Health Disparities.Race and social problems · 2026Article
- De-pathologizing multiethnic youth: a matched-sample comparison of multiethnic and monoethnic adolescents' psychological health.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Examining racial identity invalidation and well-being among Biracial adolescents using the identity capital model.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Multiraciality and mental health: the Cultural Formulation Interview as an instrument for exploring in-between identities and third spaces.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A Critical Scoping Review of Mental Health and Wellbeing Research with Multiracial Subsamples 2012-2022.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- The independent and joint effect of socioeconomic status and Multiracial status on the prevalence and frequency of substance use and depression among U.S. adolescents.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- Mental health and Multiracial/ethnic adults in the United States: a mixed methods participatory action investigation.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Developmental assets, creativity, thriving, and mental health among Malaysian emerging adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Importance of Developmental Assets to Mental Health in Norwegian Youth.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study assessed whether high school youth with mixed race/ethnicity are at greater risk for poor mental health conditions compared to their single race/ethnic counterparts and whether this mental health risk can be mitigated by youth developmental assets regardless of one's race/ethnicity. Methods involved secondary data analysis of the 2009-2013 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey-Anchorage, Alaska subsample. Difference in rates of mental health conditions and mean number of developmental assets (protective factors) were assessed among three racial/ethnic groups. Logistic regression models tested whether race/ethnicity has an independent association with mental health conditions and whether there is an interaction effect between race/ethnicity and protective factors. Results show that, compared to white students, mixed race/ethnic students have significantly higher rates of poor mental health condition and significantly fewer protective factors. A significant interaction effect between race/ethnicity and protective factors was also found, showing decreasing likelihood of poor mental health condition with increasing number of protective factors among all racial/ethnic groups. However, this effect was more pronounced among white students compared to both mixed and single race/ethnicity minority students. Study findings indicate that youth of mixed race/ethnicity are more likely to be at risk for poor mental health outcomes, yet less likely to mitigate this risk even with similar number of external developmental assets as their single race/ethnic counterparts. More research is needed to further understand the differential effect of certain developmental assets among different racial/ethnic groups.
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