Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emotional Health: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants' Adolescent Children.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Emotional Health: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants' Adolescent Children.
Community Ment Health J. 2016 Jul 28;
Authors: Lo CC, Hopson LM, Simpson GM, Cheng TC
Abstract
First, discrimination was conceptualized as a major source of stress for immigrants' adolescent children. Next, such children's emotional health (indicated by measures of self-esteem and depression) was examined for possible associations with discrimination, psychosocial supports, and social structure; additionally, race/ethnicity's possible moderating role in such associations was evaluated. Data from the first 2 waves of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (1991-2006) were employed, focusing on 3 groups: Asians, Hispanics, and Whites. Linear regression analyses were used to weigh how discrimination, psychosocial supports, and social structure measured at Wave 1 and Wave 2 related to self-esteem and depression measured at Wave 2. Asians exhibited the highest level of depression and were most likely to perceive discrimination; Asians' self-esteem was also low, compared to other groups'. Discrimination and psychosocial supports appeared to operate differentially in explaining the 3 groups' emotional health.
PMID: 27470262 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Community Mental Health Journal - July 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lo CC, Hopson LM, Simpson GM, Cheng TC Tags: Community Ment Health J Source Type: research