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ArticleResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2021

Powering and Structuring Intersectionality: Beyond Main and Interactive Associations.

Ana María Del Río-González, Sidney L Holt, Lisa Bowleg

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Article in Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Intersecting Structural Oppression and Suicidality Among Black Sexual Minority Male Adolescents and Emerging Adults.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2022
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  20. Vaping Disparities at the Intersection of Gender Identity and Race/Ethnicity in a Population-Based Sample of Adolescents.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ana María Del Río-GonzálezDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, 2125 G St NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA. amdelrio@gwu.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0283-6288
Sidney L HoltRTI International, 3040 E Cornwallis Rd, Research Triangle Park, 27709, NC, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9315-7423
Lisa BowlegDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The George Washington University, 2125 G St NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4677-8195

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is exciting to watch intersectionality travel from its roots in Black feminist activism and critical legal studies to increasingly more mainstream research domains such as psychology and psychopathology. We commend Mennies et al. (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2020) for their application of the intersectionality framework to the study of psychopathology and treatment utilization in youth in the ABCD study. We argue, however, that this application falls short of its intersectional promise. We discuss some conceptual and methodological/analytical issues that evidence the focal article's lack of alignment with intersectionality's core tenets, particularly regarding the central role of power and social-structural factors as drivers of inequities across intersectional positions. Specifically, we discuss our concerns with the testing and flattening of intersectionality, the selection and operationalization of intersectional positions, and the use of conventional regression models as quantitative analytical approach. We end by suggesting ways that intersectionality can help reduce the inequities in psychopathology and treatment utilization identified by Mennies et al. (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2020).

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FeminismMental DisordersAdolescentBlack or African AmericanChildDemographyHumansPsychopathologyInteractive effects modelsIntersectionalityMultiple main effects modelsQuantitative intersectionality

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